Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation

Recent Developments and Challenges in Projecting the Impact of Crop Productivity Growth on Biodiversity Considering Market-Mediated Effects

“…Past studies have estimated that the only way to feed a growing world population with a nutritionally adequate diet without harming the biodiversity is by simultaneously reducing food losses, adopting a planetary healthful diet, and advances in technology to close yield gaps and enable growing more food per unit area in a sustainable manner. − Target 10 of the GBF also calls for actions to increase the adoption of sustainable intensification as one of the approaches in the agriculture sector to ensure global food security without harming biodiversity…”

Continuous Living Cover: Adaptive Strategies for Putting Regenerative Agriculture into Practice

“…Our diversification strategy aims to drive regional diversification by multi-sector collective action to develop SSCs that advance economic, environmental, and social sustainability criteria that are demanded by stakeholders. As is broadly recognized (Hermans et al, 2019;Barrett et al, 2020), collective action across public, private, and NGO/philanthropy sectors is critical to sustainability transitions, such as regional diversification.…”

“…Development of such frameworks appears to be in early days, despite growing awareness of the value of diversified regional food systems (Blay-Palmer et al, 2018;Clancy and Ruhf, 2018;Nicol, 2020), and calls for diversification on regional scales . Specifically, we draw on frameworks from the emerging fields of sustainability transitions Schlaili and Urmetzer, 2019;Wyborn et al, 2019), systemic approaches to innovation (Hermans et al, 2019) and the "science of scaling" of agricultural innovations (Barrett et al, 2020;Schut et al, 2020;Wigboldus et al, 2020). We integrate these by applying the emerging theory of conscious and concerted cultural evolution (Cox and Schoon, 2019;Wilson, 2019).…”

“…Recently, this evolutionary approach to cultural change has emerged as a novel approach to sustainability transitions (Brooks et al, 2018;Jones et al, 2020). We apply this evolutionary perspective by viewing socio-ecological-technical systems as evolvable units of human culture that integrate beliefs, values, norms, knowledge, technologies, behaviors, and institutions (Montenegro de Barrett et al, 2020). Specifically, our strategy is designed to drive rapid regional diversification by efficiently evolving sustainable supply chains (SSCs) for novel crops.…”

Ide-praksis-oversættelsesmodellen

“…Forskningen tager udgangspunkt i, at de socio-tekniske systemer, der aktuelt understøtter vores samfund og leverer i forhold til vores behov, har brug for en radikal og transformativ restrukturering for at blive baeredygtige. Også indenfor mange andre områder opfatter forskerne opgaverne knyttet til baeredygtig omstilling og CO2-reduktion som socio-tekniske opgaver: konstruktion af bygninger (Rohracher, 2001), overgang til elektriske biler (Mohamad & Songthaveephol, 2020), overgang til brug af bio-braendstoffer til fly (Kim et al, 2019), indenfor fødevare-produktion (Barrett et al, 2020), i forbindelse med omstilling af energi-systemer (Chilvers et al, 2018), brug af smarte IT-systemer (Bednar & Welch, 2020), indenfor transport (Geels, 2018), indenfor byplanlaegning (Adil & Ko, 2016), renovation (Horne & Dalton, 2014), landbrug (Bilali, 2015 og produktudvikling (Ceschin & Gaziulusoy, 2016).…”