Enriching the multi-level perspective by better understanding agency and challenges associated with interactions across system boundaries. The case of care farming in the Netherlands: Multifunctional agriculture meets health care

Hassink, J.; Grin, John; Hulsink, Willem

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.12.018

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“…For entrepreneurial and sustainable farms, institutions play a crucial role, namely the cooperatives [74] and the universities for technological transfer [75], as well as the rural policies [76,77]. Social entrepreneurship in rural regions [78] and social farming [79][80][81] are interesting perspectives for farming and rural sustainability. The solution of social and environmental problems are the main goals for several farmers [82], or, at least, they should be [83], namely those who practice agriculture in disadvantaged regions and receive subsidies to stay there.…”

Section: Agricultural Sustainability and Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural Entrepreneurship in the European Union: Contributions for a Sustainable Development

Martinho

2020

Applied Sciences

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Entrepreneurship is sometimes seen as a glimmer of hope which may bring about some contribution towards improving economic dynamics and performance, specifically in the creation of employment by young people, in general, with further educational training, greater flexibility and who are better prepared for working with new technologies. However, entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector is, in certain circumstances, viewed as being something incompatible or, at least, difficult to implement. More scientific studies in these fields could provide interesting contributions on the road to highlighting new ideas inside the farming sector. In this framework, the objective of this study is to explore the entrepreneurship dimensions within the European Union agriculture towards a more sustainable sector. In fact, without an economic dimension in farm management, its sustainability in the medium and long run may be compromised, increasing the abandonment of farming, namely in more disadvantaged regions. For this, the literature which is available on the platform Web of Science relating to the following three topics was initially analysed: entrepreneurship, agriculture, and the European Union. This literature was clustered through the VOSviewer software, an interesting tool for performing bibliometric analysis. Secondly, statistical information related to European Union agricultural entrepreneurship considering empirical approaches was also explored. The analysis carried out shows that the realities across European Union countries are, in fact, different, where the instruments from the common agricultural policies, for example, may play a crucial role in promoting more farming entrepreneurship in a more sustainable way.

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Section: Agricultural Sustainability and Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural Entrepreneurship in the European Union: Contributions for a Sustainable Development

Martinho

2020

Applied Sciences

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“…Research with a distinct socio-technical perspective, for instance, employs (historical) analyses to understand the dynamics of sustainable transformations by using the increasingly popular multi-level perspective (MLP) (see [26,28,29,34]). Such an analytical gaze can help, for example, to better understand the dynamics of agri-food regimes (e.g., [43]) and multi-sectoral interactions between health care and agriculture in care farming (e.g., [44,45]). It might also help to understand the role of pioneers in the emergence of organic agricultural practices (e.g., [46]), and to conceptualize the structural properties of diversified production systems (e.g., [47]).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The first notion-'boundary innovations'-concerns the locus of the intervention and its relation to societal transformation. The importance of a cross-boundary innovation as an instrument for fostering sustainable transformation is increasingly recognized [45,123,128]. It refers to an innovation that "crosses systemic boundaries (that is the innovation interacts with different sectoral systems), but it also fundamentally changes the type of relation between those systems" [129] (p. 85), for example, it results in competition between different systems or in opportunities for creating symbiosis.…”

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“…It refers to an innovation that "crosses systemic boundaries (that is the innovation interacts with different sectoral systems), but it also fundamentally changes the type of relation between those systems" [129] (p. 85), for example, it results in competition between different systems or in opportunities for creating symbiosis. Realizing symbiotic systemic interactions is challenging; actors or networks at such systemic boundaries are confronted with multiple sets of logics, actors, rules, practices, cultures, and structures [45,130]. Schot and Kanger [127], in their work on Deep Transitions, elaborate on the importance of coupling cross-systemic structures, functionalities, and logics to realize multisystem transitions.…”

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Transforming Research and Innovation for Sustainable Food Systems—A Coupled-Systems Perspective

Kok¹,

Boer²,

Cesuroğlu³

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Current research and innovation (R&I) systems are not equipped to fully serve as catalysts for the urgently needed transformation of food systems. Though research on food systems transformation (first order: ‘what?’) and transformative research (second order: ‘how to’) are rapidly gaining traction in academic and policy environments, current efforts fail to explicitly recognize the systemic nature of the challenges associated with performing transformative second-order research. To recognize these manifold and interlinked challenges embedded in R&I systems, there is a need for a coupled-systems perspective. Transformations are needed in food systems as well as R&I systems (‘how to do the “how to”’). We set out to conceptualize an approach that aims to trigger double transformations by nurturing innovations at the boundaries of R&I systems and food systems that act upon systemic leverage points, so that their multisystem interactions can better support food system transformations. We exemplify this coupled-systems approach by introducing the FIT4FOOD2030 project with its 25 living labs as a promising multilevel boundary innovation at the cross-section of R&I and food systems. We illustrate how this approach paves the way for double systems transformations, and therefore for an R&I system that is fit for future-proofing food systems.

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“…Bui et al (2016) highlighted that MLP does not allow elucidating the mechanisms of niches contribution to regime reconfiguration. According to Hassink et al (2018), "several aspects need more attention like agency, interactions across system boundaries and multi-regime interactions" (p. 186). Transition in MLP is considered as a regime change, but Ingram et al (2015) pointed out that "the transition to sustainable agriculture might be understood as a complex of interactive processes leading to a series of adaptive changes, rather than as regime change" (p. 55).…”

Section: Multi-level Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Transition heuristic frameworks in research on agro-food sustainability transitions

Bilali

2018

Environ Dev Sustain

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The agro-food system needs a genuine sustainability transition to achieve sustainable food and nutrition security in the face of climate change, population growth, ecosystem degradation and increasing resource scarcity. Agro-food sustainability transitions refer to transformation processes needed to move towards sustainable agriculture and food systems. There is a broad range of theoretical and conceptual frameworks that have been used to understand and promote transition towards sustainability. These include the multi-level perspective (MLP) on socio-technical transitions, transition management (TM), strategic niche management (SNM), technological innovation system (TIS) and social practice approach (SPA). The paper analyses the use of these heuristic frameworks in research on agro-food sustainability transitions. A search carried out in March 2018 on Scopus yielded 791 documents, and 127 research articles underwent a systematic review. Results show that more than three-fifths of research papers dealing with sustainability transitions in agriculture, food processing, distribution and consumption use at least one of the five heuristic frameworks (MLP, TM, SNM, TIS and SPA). The MLP is the most prominent framework in research on agro-food sustainability transitions, followed by TM, SPA, SNM and then TIS. Nevertheless, MLP is increasingly complemented with frameworks that focus on humanrelated and social factors (SPA), management and governance (TM, SNM) or agency and interactions between actors (TIS) in sustainability transitions processes. Therefore, the paper makes the case for more integration of transition frameworks in order to better nurture and foster transitions towards sustainable agro-food systems.

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Enriching the multi-level perspective by better understanding agency and challenges associated with interactions across system boundaries. The case of care farming in the Netherlands: Multifunctional agriculture meets health care

Cited by 47 publications

References 74 publications

Agricultural Entrepreneurship in the European Union: Contributions for a Sustainable Development

Agricultural Entrepreneurship in the European Union: Contributions for a Sustainable Development

Transforming Research and Innovation for Sustainable Food Systems—A Coupled-Systems Perspective

Transition heuristic frameworks in research on agro-food sustainability transitions

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