Links among innovation, food system transformation, and technology adoption, with implications for food policy: Overview of a special issue

Framing the Intractable: Comprehensive Success Factor Analysis for Grand Challenges

“…Practices: This section of the success factor tree frames ideal practices in the food system that can help achieve progress towards the desired outcome of food security and adequate nutrition in the country. For example, ideal agricultural practices involving climate adaptation techniques [75 , 95] (when performed in combination with other ideal external factors like high quality seeds, fertile land, skilled labor) can yield a good crop. Similarly, ideal practices exist for processing, storage and distribution of different food types such as drying practices for grains [96] or cold storage practices for meat, fish and dairy [97] .…”

“…For instance, the bulk of the focus in the literature was laid on system level elements – Policy [85 , 117 , 119 , 120] , Security [74 , 121] , Sustainability [121 , 122] , Resilience [75 , 117 , 120 , 122] , and Leadership [120 , 121 , 123 , 124] . Furthermore, another strong focus was on operational elements - Resources [95 , 100 , 120] , Economics [74 , 121] , and Supply-chain and distribution [95 , 117 , 124 , 125] . Lastly, only a limited number of studies focused on the social side of the socio-technical challenge [87 , 104 , 126 , 127] .…”

Ecological Innovations in Agricultural Production as a Pro-Development Factor of the Economy

“…For a long time, agricultural producers have tried to identify limiting growth factors and develop new farming methods to exceed known production boundaries. Targeting technological changes in agricultural production only to maximize productivity growth only led to periodic improvement of the economic situation of business entities, but as a result of changes in price relations, this effect was relatively quickly disappearing (as a result of a technological treadmill (Reardon et al, 2017). Moreover, negative external effects of an environmental or social nature were often revealed.…”

Essays on meso-institutions: evidences from the dairy sector

“…To sum up, all the three levels of the institutional arrangement matter (Hedley, 2017). Any regulation must consider the political architecture in its implementation environment (Reardon et al, 2017) -for instance, how national-, regional-or local-levels are relevant for policy translation, implementation and monitoring.…”

“…Although the literature on food policy is extensive (Erjavec and Lovec, 2017, Hedley, 2017, Reardon et al, 2017, Saint Ville et al, 2017, there is a gap in explaining the possibility of distinct policy outcomes and effectiveness depending on how the regulation is implemented. Drawing on Ménard (2014Ménard ( , 2017, I argue that the mechanisms by which the regulation is implemented, the meso-institutions, are undoubtedly relevant for this analysis.…”