Stimulating transitions towards sustainable farming systems

Elzen, Boelie; Barbier, Marc; Cerf, Marianne; Grin, John

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4503-2_19

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“…Indeed, such integral solutions address a range of different challenges all at once instead of seeking different isolated solutions for single aspects [64]. For the design of integral solutions, it is necessary to combine the knowledge and expertise from different scientific disciplines because each discipline delivers answers to only some of the relevant aspects.…”

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“…However, "a technocratic approach to sustainable agriculture is not necessarily any more responsive to rural and urban stakeholder groups, or even to environmental concerns, than was traditional agricultural research" [65] (p. 341). For this reason, it has often been argued that looking at agricultural production alone is not sufficient [43,64,66]; that the realization of sustainable agriculture also requires looking beyond the farm gate [28]. Thus, research looking at the human-made context in which agricultural production takes place, as is conducted by the more socially-focused disciplines, is necessary and important.…”

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confidence: 99%

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What Is Sustainable Agriculture? A Systematic Review

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Abstract:The idea of a sustainable agriculture has gained prominence since the publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987. Yet, the concept of sustainable agriculture is very vague and ambiguous in its meaning, which renders its use and implementation extremely difficult. In this systematic review paper, we aim to advance understandings of sustainable agriculture from a social science and governance perspective by identifying areas of complementarity and concern between emerging definitions of sustainable agriculture. For this purpose, we conducted a structured literature review in combination with a cluster analysis in order to (1) identify the overall ideas and aspects associated with sustainable agriculture; (2) detect patterns and differences in how these ideas and aspects are adopted or applied; (3) evaluate how the different ideas and aspects of sustainable agriculture are combined in the scientific debate, and assess whether these different conceptions match with those that have been claimed to exist in the debate. There are two valuable outcomes from this research. The first is a framework for understanding the components of sustainable agriculture. The second outcome is in highlighting ways for actors involved with sustainable agriculture to deal with the complexity and multiplicity of this concept in a constructive manner.

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“…Nevertheless, through a detailed analysis, one can identify how the links created during the anchoring process become more durable, thus contributing to the mainstreaming of the niche. Anchoring denotes the process of linking between a niche and the relevant regime, which takes place across three dimensions: the technical, the human-societal and the institutional (Elzen et al, 2012a(Elzen et al, , 2012b. The technical dimension includes all technology or production process-related aspects of a regime.…”

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Integrated farming in Greece: a transition-to-sustainability perspective

Vlahos

Karanikolas

Koutsouris

2017

IJARGE

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The aim of this paper is to explore the linking process between a niche and the regime in the context of an emergent transition, using the concepts of 'anchoring' and 'translation' embedded in the broader multi-level perspective. The case study concerns the transition of an intensive farming system, from subsidy oriented productivism, towards an integrated farming (IF) system focusing on the market, in the canned peach sector in Imathia, Northern Greece. The study revealed an anchored regime-triggered innovation, which resulted in the creation of a market niche within the incumbent regime. In this transition, all forms of anchoring are involved, and various forms of translation were encountered while a hybrid forum was identified, serving as the 'fertile ground' upon which all subsequent networking and translation activities took place. Research findings question a clear-cut analytical separation between the three levels of the multi-level perspective, as well as the relevance of a bottomup procedure as a prerequisite for niche emergence vis-à-vis policy induced change.

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“…Fertilizer subsidies in India not only cost the Indian exchequer vast amounts of money but are skewed with greater use of urea and nitrogen to benefit irrigated areas and a few crops, with soil quality consequently deteriorating in the longer run (Rupela and Gopikrishna 2011). Macrotrends or landscape developments can lead to newer narratives of change for social innovation (Elzen et al 2012, Avelino et al 2014. Social movements for agroecology have articulated the sustainability imperative and the need to move away from existing Green Revolution-based technologies and food systems.…”

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Innovating at the margins: the System of Rice Intensification in India and transformative social innovation

Prasad¹

2016

E&S

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ABSTRACT. I explore transformative social innovation in agriculture through a particular case of agroecological innovation, the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India. Insights from social innovation theory that emphasize the roles of social movements and the reengagement of vulnerable populations in societal transformation can help reinstate the missing "social" dimension in current discourses on innovation in India. India has a rich and vibrant tradition of social innovation wherein vulnerable communities have engaged in collective experimentation. This is often missed in official or formal accounts. Social innovations such as SRI can help recreate these possibilities for change from outside the mainstream due to newer opportunities that networks present in the twentyfirst century. I show how local and international networks led by Civil Society Organizations have reinterpreted and reconstructed game-changing macrotrends in agriculture. This has enabled the articulation and translation of an alternative paradigm for sustainable transitions within agriculture from outside formal research channels. These social innovations, however, encounter stiff opposition from established actors in agricultural research systems. Newer heterogeneous networks, as witnessed in SRI, provide opportunities for researchers within hierarchical research systems to explore, experiment, and create newer norms of engagement with Civil Society Organizations and farmers. I emphasize valuing and embedding diversity of practices and institutions at an early stage to enable systems to be more resilient and adaptable in sustainable transitions.

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Stimulating transitions towards sustainable farming systems

Cited by 58 publications

References 34 publications

What Is Sustainable Agriculture? A Systematic Review

What Is Sustainable Agriculture? A Systematic Review

Integrated farming in Greece: a transition-to-sustainability perspective

Innovating at the margins: the System of Rice Intensification in India and transformative social innovation

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