The TransForum Model: Transforming Agro Innovation Toward Sustainable Development

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: van Latesteijn, Henk (Editor), Andeweg, Karin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Sustainable development.; Life Sciences.; Sustainable Development.

The TransForum Model: Transforming Agro-innovation Toward Sustainable Development presents new insights on how to use innovation for the complex challenge of sustainable development. Innovation has been at the heart of the positive agricultural developments in both production and productivity growth...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. The need for a new agro innovation system
• 2. Inventions for future sustainable development in agriculture
• 3. Organizing innovations and transitions
• 4. For or Against Innovation? The influence of images
• 5. Mobilizing consumer demand for sustainable development6. From motivating assumptions to a practical innovation model
• 7. Transforming agriculture: a new approach to stimulate sustainable development
• Appendix I. TransForum: stimulating innovation for sustainable development by learning by doing
• Action experiments
• Scientific research
• Learning projects
• Appendix II. Action experiments explicated
• Appendix III. Overview experiments & projects
• Action experiments
• Scientific research projects
• Learning projects
• Appendix IV.