Prelims

ISBN: 978-1-83982-157-8, eISBN: 978-1-83982-156-1

ISSN: 1057-1922

Publication date: 29 July 2020

pdf (340 KB) ePub (7.2 MB)

Citation

(2020), "Prelims", Brunori, G. and Grando, S. (Ed.) Innovation for Sustainability (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 25), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xv. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-192220200000025001

Publisher

:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Half Title Page

Innovation for Sustainability

Series Title Page

Research in Rural Sociology and Development

Series Editor: Terry Marsden

Recent Volumes:

Volume 4:	Rural Labour Markets
Volume 5:	Household Strategies
Volume 6:	Sustaining Agriculture and Rural Community
Volume 7:	Focus on Migration
Volume 8:	Dairy Industry Restructuring
Volume 9:	Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life
Volume 10:	Nature, Raw Materials and Political Economy
Volume 11:	New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development
Volume 12:	Between the Local and the Global
Volume 13:	Gender Regimes, Citizen Participation and Rural Restructuring
Volume 14:	Beyond the Rural–Urban Divide: Cross-Continental Perspectives on the Differentiated Countryside and Its Regulation
Volume 15:	Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives
Volume 16:	From Community to Consumption: New and Classical Themes in Rural Sociological Research
Volume 17:	Globalization and the Time–Space Reorganization: Capital Mobility in Agriculture and Food in the Americas
Volume 18:	Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes: Food Security, Climate Change and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture
Volume 19:	Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and New Paradigms
Volume 20:	Labour Relations in Globalized Food
Volume 21:	Alternative Agrifood Movements: Patterns of Convergence and Divergence
Volume 22:	Constructing a New Framework for Rural Development
Volume 23:	Metropolitan Ruralities
Volume 24:	Rural Change and Global Processes

Title Page

Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Volume 25

Innovation for Sustainability: Small Farmers Facing New Challenges in the Evolving Food Systems

Edited by

Gianluca Brunori

University of Pisa, Italy

Stefano Grando

University of Pisa, Italy

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

Copyright Page

Emerald Publishing Limited

Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK

First edition 2020

Reprints and permissions service

Contact: permissions@emeraldinsight.com

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by The Copyright Licensing Agency and in the USA by The Copyright Clearance Center. Any opinions expressed in the chapters are those of the authors. Whilst Emerald makes every effort to ensure the quality and accuracy of its content, Emerald makes no representation implied or otherwise, as to the chapters' suitability and application and disclaims any warranties, express or implied, to their use.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 978-1-83982-157-8 (Print)

ISBN: 978-1-83982-156-1 (Online)

ISBN: 978-1-83982-158-5 (Epub)

ISSN: 1057-1922 (Series)

List of Figures and Tables

Figures

	Introduction
Figure 1	An Overall View on the Volume
	Chapter 1
Figure 1	Food System Conceptualization
Figure 2	Food Consumption and Food Production Systems Interacting
Figure 3	A Specific Example of a Food System and Its Sub-systems
Figure 4	Flows of Income and Sources of Investment in an Agricultural Smallholding
	Chapter 3
Figure 1	Conceptual Framework of the Food System Approach for Vulnerability Assessment to the Effects of Global Drivers of Change in Food and Nutrition Security Research
Figure 2	Components of the Food System
Figure 3	Different Scales and Levels Critical in Understanding and Responding to Food System Interactions
	Chapter 4
Figure 1	A Model of Vulnerability
Figure 2	TRANSMANGO Framework for Assessing People's Food Vulnerability
Figure 3	Vulnerability Framework
Figure 4	Vulnerability Model for FNS
Figure A1	A Seven-step Food System Vulnerability Assessment Framework
Figure A2	General Form of the Vulnerability Scoping Diagram (VSD)
	Chapter 5
Figure 1	Performance of Local and Global Chains on Attributes Selected for Cross Country Case Study Assessment
	Chapter 6
Figure 1	Producer's Decision-making Process
Figure 2	Multidimensional Framework Guiding SUFISA
Figure 3	External Conditions
Figure 4	Map of Producers' Strategies
Figure 5	Conditions Affecting a Contractual Relation
Figure 6	Understanding Institutional Arrangements
Figure 7	Examples of Institutional Arrangements
Figure 8	Ex Ante and Ex Post Risks in Contractual Arrangements
Figure 9	Conditions, Strategies and Performances
Figure 10	Conditions, Strategies, Performances and Feedbacks
Figure 11	Performances and Resilience Dimensions
	Chapter 7
Figure 1	Innovation as a Learning Process
Figure 2	Components of a Socio-technical System
Figure 3	The Dynamics of Second-order Innovation
	Chapter 8
Figure 1	Innovation Policies and Innovation Paths

Tables

	Chapter 2
Table 1	Small Farms' Contribution to FNS
	Chapter 3
Table 1	Key Categories and Examples of Food System Activities and Actors that Perform Them
Table 2	Key Categories of Public and Private Institutions that Coordinate the Food System Activities Performed by Actors and Uses of Natural and Human-made Assets
	Chapter 4
Table 1	Examples for Each of the Four Categories of Vulnerability Factors Classified According to the Dimensions Sphere and Knowledge Domain
Table 2	Main Drivers of Food Vulnerability
Table A1	Vulnerability Profile of a Household
Table A2	Analysis of the Food System Characteristics that May Indicate Vulnerability
Table A3	TRANSMANGO Matrix for Analysis of Drivers Affecting the Food System
Table A4	Framework Matrix for Vulnerability Assessment
	Chapter 5
Table 1	Sustainability Dimensions and Attributes, as Defined in the GLAMUR Project
	Chapter 6
Table 1	Key Determinants of Global Value Chain Governance
Table 2	Contract Types
	Chapter 7
Table 1	Conventional vs Alternative Paradigms
	Chapter 8
Table 1	A Classification of Policy Goals
Table 2	Classification of Support Schemes According to Type of Paradigm and Type of Objectives

List of Acronyms

AHM: Agricultural Household Model
AKIS: Agriculture Knowledge and Innovation Systems
CAP: Common Agricultural Policy
CFS: Community food security
CSP: Conditions-Strategies-Performances
FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FNS: Food and Nutrition Security
GMO: Genetically Modified Organism
HACCP: Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
HLPE: High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
IA: Institutional Arrangements
ICT: Information and Communications Technologies
IMF: International Monetary Fund
MEA: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
MLP: Multilevel Perspective
OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
RD: Rural Development
RR: Reference Region
SCP: Structure-Conduct-Performance
SES: Socioecological Systems
STS: Sociotechnical Systems
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme
VSD: Vulnerability Scoping Diagram

Foreword

The volume provides an in-depth exploration of the determinants, dynamics and outcomes of rural and agricultural change processes, with a special focus on the role of family farming.

Covering both the system and the farm level of analysis, the book offers a comprehensive view of approaches and models capable to grasp different complementary aspects of the development trajectories followed by farms, food systems and territories facing multidimensional drivers of change and exposed to a range of vulnerability factors. The emerging characters and roles of innovation networks and social learning, as well as the decision-making processes at the farm level are explored in particular depth, with attention to the multidimensional societal expectation from agriculture, family farms and rural areas, with specific attention to food and nutrition security concerns.

The contributions have been first elaborated as conceptual frameworks of some recent EU-level research projects, with the participation of a wide range of contributors with diverse scientific, professional and geographical background. This gives the volume the capability to interpret the plurality of agricultural change and innovation processes taking place in different spatial contexts, with specific attention to the role small farmers can play in these processes.

The original documents have been adapted for this publication in a volume, while retaining their specificity. This background makes each contribution readable as a document in itself as well as in continuation with one another. It also involves a limited degree of overlapping, as some concepts or categories are addressed in more than one chapter. Far from creating redundancy, we believe this gives the reader the opportunity to confront with an issue or a conceptual category through different lenses and from different perspectives, deepening their understanding. The references made from one chapter to another aim at the same objective.

More specifically, the large part of Chapter 1 comes from the framework developed for the project SALSA ¹ ; Chapters 2, 3 and 4 (with the related Appendix) are the result of the unpacking of the framework of TRANSMANGO ² , with some elements taken form SALSA project outcomes in Chapter 2; Chapter 5 is an exception, as it reproduces with some adaptation a paper already published by the authors ³ ; Chapter 6 comes from the framework of SUFISA ⁴ whereas Chapter 7 (and most of Chapter 8) relies on the work carried out for the framework of INSIGHT. ⁵

Acknowledgements

The editors and the contributors are deeply grateful to all the colleagues that have participated in the activities of the projects whose conceptual frameworks have been adapted for this publication. Any research project, and any outcome of such projects, is a collective endeavour to which each partner and each involved person contribute. Special thanks also to Sophie Barr and Emma Leverton, who helped the editors in the complex work of revision and refinement of the book’s content and editing.

¹

SALSA – Small farms, small food businesses, and sustainable food security. Funded under Horizon 2020, grant agreement n. 677363. http://www.salsa.uevora.pt/en/.

²

TRANSMANGO – Assessment of the impact of drivers of change on Europe's food and nutrition security. Funded under the seventh FP, grant agreement n. 613532. http://www.transmango.eu/.

³

Brunori, G., Galli, F., & Grando, S. (2016). Sustainable agri-food systems: A reflection on assemblages and diversity. Systèmes alimentaires/Food Systems, 1, 21–39. Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2016.

⁴

SUFISA – SUstainable FInance for Sustainable Agriculture and fisheries. Funded under Horizon 2020, grant agreement 635577. https://www.sufisa.eu/.

⁵

INSIGHT – Strengthening Innovation Processes for Growth and Development. Funded under the sixth FP, contract n. 44510. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/84139/factsheet/en.

Book Chapters

Prelims

Introduction

Part I Changing Food Systems

Small Farming and the Food System

Small Farming and Food and Nutrition Security

Unpacking Food Systems

The Vulnerability of Food Systems

Food Systems as Assemblages

Part II Farming in the Changing Food Systems

Small Farms' Behaviour: Conditions, Strategies and Performances

Small Farms and Innovation

Innovation Policies for Sustainable, Resilient, Food-secure Systems

About the Contributors

Index