Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains

✍ Scribed by Estelle Biénabe, Alain Rival, Denis Loeillet (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 357
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book links tropical agri-chain dynamics – with which CIRAD and AFD have been involved for decades – to that of sustainable development. Increased environmental and social concerns urge agri-chain actors and development practitioners to design innovations, and public and private actors to invent regulations in connection with agri-chains to improve sustainability.With a view to contributing towards implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this book examines the different roles of agri-chains: as vectors of development, as spaces of innovation, as objects of evaluation, and as arenas of regulation. It builds upon the findings and experiences of CIRAD and its researchers together with their Southern partners, and of AFD and its officers.Linking agricultural production with the other economic sectors, agri- chains are key spaces where local and global challenges to sustainability meet and where local and global actors experiment interlinked or common solutions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Concept of Filière or Value Chain: An Analytical Framework for Development Policies and Strategies....Pages 17-28
History of Public Organizations and Associations Specializing in a Single Agricultural Commodity and Related to Francophone Africa....Pages 29-40
Evolution of Donor Intervention Modalities on Agri-Chains: The AFD Experience....Pages 41-54
Alliances Between Agri-Chain Actors for a Sustainable Development of Territories in Vietnam....Pages 55-69
Collective Action in Agri-Chains....Pages 71-81
Agri-Chains (or filières) and Food and Nutrition Security: Two Independent Concepts....Pages 83-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Contribution of Research to Innovation Within Agri-Chains....Pages 93-105
Agri-Chains and Partnership Approaches to Research....Pages 107-124
Design of Cropping Systems and Ecological Intensification....Pages 125-139
Evolution and Challenges of Varietal Improvement Strategies....Pages 141-152
Sustainable Processing Systems: What New Strategies for Tropical Agri-Chains?....Pages 153-168
A Step Towards Food Security....Pages 169-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Agricultural and Forestry Chains in the Countries of the South in the Age of Bioenergy....Pages 175-186
Diversifying Biomass Uses Through New Cropping Systems....Pages 187-200
Inter-supply Chain Recycling of Residues....Pages 201-217
A Counterpoint on Waste....Pages 219-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Why and How to Assess the Contribution of an Agri-Chain to Sustainable Development?....Pages 225-236
How to Assess the Environmental Impacts of an Agri-Chain?....Pages 237-255
Instruments to Assess the Social Impacts of Value Chains....Pages 257-265
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Agri-Chains and Evaluation of Sustainability....Pages 267-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Agro-industrial Strategies and Voluntary Mechanisms for the Sustainability of Tropical Global Value Chains: The Place of Territories....Pages 271-282
The Standardization of Sustainable Development Through the Insertion of Agricultural Global Value Chains into International Markets....Pages 283-303
Ecosystem Services, Payments for Environmental Services, and Agri-Chains: What Kind of Regulation to Enhance Sustainability?....Pages 305-319
Global Strategies of Firms and the Financialization of Agriculture....Pages 321-337
General Conclusion and New Research Perspectives....Pages 339-353

✦ Subjects

Agriculture;Sustainable Development;Environmental Policy;Economic Policy