Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains

Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains

The year 2015 led to a renewed and ambitious global framework for action towards sustainable development with the Adoption of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and of the universal agreement on climate. With a view to contributing towards implementing the SDGs, this book links the issues s...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Biénabe, Estelle (Editor), Rival, Alain (Editor), Loeillet, Denis (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Subjects:
Life sciences.
Agriculture.
Sustainable development.
Economic policy.
Environmental policy.
Life Sciences.
Sustainable Development.
Environmental Policy.
Economic Policy.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • General Foreword
  • Foreword by AFD
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • PART 1: THE TROPICAL AGRI-CHAIN AS A VECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT?
  • Chapter 2: The concept of filière or value chain: an analytical framework for development policies and strategies
  • Chapter 3: History of public organizations and associations specializing in a single agricultural commodity and related to francophone Africa
  • Chapter 4: Evolution of donor intervention modalities on agri-chains: the AFD experience
  • Chapter 5: Alliances between agri-chain actors for a sustainable development of territories in Vietnam
  • Chapter 6: Collective action in agri-chains
  • Chapter 7: Agri-chains (or filières) and food and nutrition security: two independent concepts
  • PART 2 - AGRI-CHAINS AS A FRAMEWORK FOR INNOVATION IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
  • Chapter 8: Contribution of research to innovation within agri-chains
  • Chapter 9: Agri-chains and partnership approaches to research
  • Chapter 10: Design of cropping systems and ecological intensification
  • Chapter 11: Evolution and challenges of varietal improvement strategies
  • Chapter 12: Sustainable processing systems: what new strategies for tropical agri-chains?
  • Chapter 13: A step towards food security
  • PART 3 - DIVERSITY OF USES OF BIOMASS AND INTER-AGRI-CHAIN DYNAMICS
  • Chapter 14 - Agricultural and forestry chains in the countries of the South in the age of bioenergy
  • Chapter 15: Diversifying biomass uses through new cropping systems
  • Chapter 16: Inter-supply chain recycling of residues
  • Chapter 17: A counterpoint on waste
  • PART 4 - AGRI-CHAINS AND EVALUATION OF SUSTAINABILITY
  • Chapter 18: Why and how to assess the contribution of an agri-chain to sustainable development?
  • Chapter 19: How to assess the environmental impacts of an agri-chain?
  • Chapter 20: - Instruments to assess the social impacts of value chains
  • Chapter 21: Agri-chains and evaluation of sustainability
  • PART 5 - CAN AGRI-CHAINS ACT AS AN ARENA OF REGULATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?
  • Chapter 22: Agro-industrial strategies and voluntary mechanisms for the sustainability of tropical global value chains: the place of territories
  • Chapter 23: The standardization of sustainable development through the insertion of agricultural global value chains into international markets
  • Chapter 24: Ecosystem services, payments for environmental services, and agri-chains: what kind of regulation to enhance sustainability?
  • Chapter 25: - Global strategies of firms and the financialization of agriculture
  • Chapter 26:- General conclusion and new research perspectives
  • List of abbreviations
  • List of text boxes
  • List of authors.

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