Why and how market institutions create incentives for adopting sustainable agricultural practices
Résumé
This edited volume has gathered together a collection of selected case studies from
around the world, documented by the innovators themselves. The preceding chapters
detail how each case has innovated within its organizational and institutional environments
to create markets for its sustainable products. All the case studies in this volume
are considered “market-driven” innovations. We classify them as such because
the innovators are relying upon innovative market instruments and institutions to
sell products that are cultivated using sustainable agricultural practices. One of the
selection criteria for the case studies was proof that the agricultural practices used by
the innovators were in line with the categories documented in FAO’s Save and grow
publication (2011). We argue that the 15 cases presented in this book exemplify new
ways of organizing farmers who practise sustainable agriculture. These new ways
have changed the rules about how farmers and consumers can be linked through
market exchanges. In this chapter, we explain how we arrived at this conclusion.
The chapter is organized as follows. First, we present our analytical framework
of “institutional innovations”, which is followed by three sections that explain
why and how institutional innovations work. We conclude by explaining how it is
through these institutional innovations that markets act as incentives for the local
use of sustainable practices.
Domaines
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