Assessing impacts of agricultural research for development: A systemic model focusing on outcomes

Temple, Ludovic; Barret, Danielle; Blundo‐Canto, Genowefa; Dabat, Marie‐Hélène; Devaux‐Spatarakis, Agathe; Faure, Guy; Hainzelin, Étienne; Mathé, Syndhia; Toillier, Aurélie; Triomphe, Bernard

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“…Sustainable development, as introduced in the Brundtland report (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987), has significantly influenced the demands on, and the design of, assessment tools that must deal with contextual (site-specific conditions) and temporal issues (impacts occur at various, often lengthy, times after the intervention), as well as multidisciplinarity (Temple et al, 2018). Based on these considerations, new and more qualitative approaches to sustainability assessment have been proposed to help urban food system governance.…”

Section: The Various Dimensions Of Sustainabilitymentioning

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An emerging user-led participatory methodology

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Sustainable Food System Assessment

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20 an implicit positive causal relationship between urban innovations and sustainability, most of these relationships remain undocumented and unclear. Among them, for example, is the idea that local food trade is inherently environmentally friendly (Katz, 2010) or socially just. Yet many works show the complexity and relative truth of this assertion (Born & Purcell, 2006; Desrochers & Shimizu, 2008). Some of these innovations may also have negative impacts on social issues. Slocum et al. (2016) pointed out how, in spite of the will to create and inhabit more equitable food spaces, the food movement often fails to lead to food justice, instead reinforcing existing race, class, and gender inequalities (Clancy, 1994; Freidberg, 2003). In a nutshell, urban food innovations do not necessarily address sustainability issues. Additionally, existing initiatives that focus on indicators, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, privilege technocratic approaches and data, while case-study analyses can be limiting in terms of their transferability (see Chapters 1 & 12, this volume). Within this context, understanding how to move towards increasingly sustainable city region food systems is a challenge. The research programme URBAL (Urban-driven Innovations for Sustainable Food Systems) (2018-2020), funded by Agropolis Fondation (France), Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso (France/ Spain), and Fundazione Cariplo (Italy), and coordinated by CIRAD (France) and the Laurier Center for Sustainable Food Systems at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), seeks to build and test a participatory methodology to identify and map the impact pathways of urban-driven innovations on all the dimensions of food systems sustainability. By testing this methodology through various case studies internationally-Urban Food Innovation Labs (UFILs), including sites in the Global South and North-this project aims to provide decision makers with information on how innovations can contribute to, or work against, building more sustainable food systems, thus assisting them to determine which actions should or should not be taken (see Chapters 3 & 9, this volume). This chapter presents the general framework for the URBAL project as well as the main interwoven considerations and approaches that are the backbone of the methodology. Please note that this is an ongoing project and that it has evolved since the chapter has been written. We will point out some changes in the methodology as the chapter proceeds. How to assess the impact of urban-driven innovations on the sustainability of food systems? The main objective of the URBAL project is to provide urban policymakers, urban innovators, and funders with a low-cost, easy-to-implement, and context-adaptable methodology that can be used as a robust tool to make the impact pathways of innovations on all the dimensions of the sustainability of food systems more explicit. Its purpose is not to provide evaluation per

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Section: The Various Dimensions Of Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

An emerging user-led participatory methodology

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Schreiber²,

Conaré³

et al. 2019

Sustainable Food System Assessment

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“…Elle est fondée sur les leçons tirées des 13 études de cas, de la littérature relative à l'évaluation, de quatre ateliers ex ante regroupant les chercheurs du Cirad et leurs partenaires, et d'une école-chercheurs en juin 2017, au cours de laquelle neuf équipes projet ont testé la première version de la démarche. Ainsi, le présent document emprunte à la recherche-action en partenariat (Faure et al, 2010), à l'analyse participative du chemin de l'impact (Douthwaite et al, 2007), à la cartographie des outcomes (Earl et al, 2001), aux applications de la théorie du changement Mayne, 2015), à l'analyse de pouvoir des acteurs (Mayers, 2005 ;Schiffer et Hauck, 2010) et enfin aux leçons tirées de la démarches ImpresS ex post Temple et al, 2018).…”

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ImpresS ex ante. Une proposition de démarche pour construire ex ante les chemins de l'impact

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“…Methods of economic evaluation of land according to the indicators of economic efficiency, productivity and profitability of land use for the purpose of land-use optimization, are recommended to be applied not only in Ukraine, but also in the neighboring countries of the EU, particularly for implementation of a common agrarian policy concerning increased productivity of land resource use in agriculture. The methodology of supporting investments and methodic approaches to modeling the efficient use of agricultural lands have been studied in the works of Ukrainian and foreign scientists (TEMPLE et al 2018;DEATON 2018).…”

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Application of Mathematical Modelling for Optimization of Land-Use Management

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Ryzhok

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The work has approved the methods of partial economic evaluation of lands by the indicators of yield capacity of agricultural crops, payback of expenditures and differential income for a typical agricultural enterprise, located on the territory of the natural-agricultural province of the Western Forest-steppe. The research supplies proposals concerning improvement of the methods of economic evaluation of lands in Ukraine on the example of the indicators of economic evaluation of the land use at the farming enterprise “GREEN GARDEN”. The indicators are used for the growing of agricultural crops, planning their yield capacity, comparison of the economic fertility of soils and determination of the economic results of growing agricultural crops under the current production conditions in a defined working area. The research proposes the optimization of land-use management, applying a metrical game on the basis of indicators of the economic evaluation of lands to define the optimal share of agricultural crops in crop rotation. This method can be used to optimize land use in any region. Application of mathematical modeling by indicators of differential income ensures that maximum gross income is obtained under the mixed strategy of the game on better and worse soils in the enterprise.

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Assessing impacts of agricultural research for development: A systemic model focusing on outcomes

Cited by 34 publications

References 53 publications

An emerging user-led participatory methodology

An emerging user-led participatory methodology

ImpresS ex ante. Une proposition de démarche pour construire ex ante les chemins de l'impact

Application of Mathematical Modelling for Optimization of Land-Use Management

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