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Institutional innovations supporting local markets for sustainable agriculture

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As Agroecology emerges on national and global agendas, there is a need to understand the institutional changes that are accompanying public, private and civil society efforts to create agroecology-based food systems. Institutional innovations are new rules and forms of interaction. They help redefine sustainable practices for the local level and bring together food systems actors that have not traditionally worked together. Since 2013 INRA and FAO have been carrying out participatory action research study on innovations that link sustainable practices with markets. Carried out in collaboration with innovators in 14 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America, we analyzed how the reorganization of relationships between actors in local food systems and the local revision of rules for sustainable agriculture have been able to incentivize not only the adoption of sustainable practices by farmers, but also the creation of local markets for sustainably produced products in developing countries. These innovations are classified into three types: participatory guarantee systems – innovations in certification; multi-actor innovation platforms – innovations in knowledge creation; and community-supported agriculture – innovations in community investment. Each innovation kicks off processes of change in a local food system by mobilizing knowledge, resources, legitimacy, entrepreneurial skills and strategy, and creating spaces for exchange in different ways. Throughout years of continuous experimentation with aspects of these local systems – and by shifting roles and responsibilities between actors in the systems – these innovators have gained significant ground in creating new rules for sustainable production and consumption of food around the world. Among numerous insights gain through this process, there are four key take home messages: 1) A wide range of actors in developing countries are inventing new forms of interaction and organization (called institutional innovations) to supply local markets with sustainable agricultural products; 2) Social and institutional innovations are as essential as technological innovations in transitions to sustainable food systems, and they require policy support; 3) Even when innovations are led by private actors, partnerships with public actors and civil society have an important role in creating linkages between farmers and markets; 4) Autonomy, reciprocity and the recognition of the diverse types of knowledge that are fostered through institutional innovations all create incentives for the adoption of sustainable practices.
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hal-01571554 , version 1 (02-08-2017)

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  • HAL Id : hal-01571554 , version 1
  • PRODINRA : 397830

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Allison Marie Loconto. Institutional innovations supporting local markets for sustainable agriculture. Regional Symposium on Agroecology for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems for Europe and Central Asia, Nov 2016, Budapest, Hungary. FAO - Food and Agriculture Organisation, 2016. ⟨hal-01571554⟩
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