INNOVATION IN AGRIBUSINESS

Peter Rosset argues that what is at stake is the very future of our global food system, of each country's unique agricultural and farming systems, and the livelihoods of rural people in both the rich industrial countries and the South. He unravels the complex ways in which agriculture in the North is supported, subsidized etc. and argues for the future of agriculture to be taken completely out of the WTO's ambit since food is not just another commodity, but something which goes to the heart of human livelihood, local cultures and national security.

Promised land: competing visions of agrarian reform Peter Rosset, Raj Patel, Michael Courville, Land Research Action Network 1 Resenha Food First Books, 2006 - 380 páginas Political Science / Third World Development

  SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE: Property Rights, Collective Action, and Local Conservation of Genetic Resources (World Development) World Development just published its September 2007 issue, which is a special issue with papers from a CAPRi Workshop. World Development, Volume 35, Issue 9, Pages 1481-1594 (September 2007) is a special issue on "Property Rights, Collective Action, and Local Conservation of Genetic Resources" edited by Pablo Eyzaguirre, Monica Di Gregorio and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. The special issue contains the following articles. Earlier versions of all of the papers except the introduction are available as CAPRi working papers on the CAPRi website. Introduction to the Special Issue on "Property Rights, Collective Action, and Local Conservation of Genetic Resources", by Pablo Eyzaguirre, Monica Di Gregorio and Ruth Meinzen-Dick The Impacts of Collective Action and Property Rights on Plant Genetic Resources, by Pablo B. Eyzaguirre and Evan M. Dennis Farmers' Rights and Protection of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge, Stephen B. Brush Protecting Farmers' New Varieties: New Approaches to Rights on Collective Innovations in Plant Genetic Resources, by Rene Salazar, Niels P. Louwaars and Bert Visser Property Rights and the Management of Animal Genetic Resources, by Simon Anderson and Roberta Centonze Are there Customary Rights to Plants? An Inquiry among the Baganda (Uganda), with Special Attention to Gender, by Patricia L. Howard and Gorettie Nabanoga Local Institutions and Plant Genetic Conservation: Exchange of Plant Genetic Resources in Rural Uzbekistan and some Theoretical Implications, by Evan Dennis, Jarilkasin Ilyasov, Eric van Dusen, Sergey Treshkin, Marina Lee and Pablo Eyzaguirre The Dynamics of Farmers' Maize Seed Supply Practices in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Lone B. Badstue, Mauricio R. Bellon, Julien Berthaud, Alejandro Ramírez, Dagoberto Flores and Xóchitl Juárez Those with online access to the journal can access the a

Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin About the Author Search CEE Home | CEE | 2nd edition | Tragedy of the Commons In 1974 the general public got a graphic illustration of the "tragedy of the commons" in satellite photos of the earth. Pictures of northern Africa showed an irregular dark patch 390 square miles in area. Ground-level investigation revealed a fenced area inside of which there was plenty of grass. Outside, the ground cover had been devastated. The explanation was simple. The fenced area was private property, subdivided into five portions. Each year the owners moved their animals to a new section. Fallow periods of four years gave the pastures time to recover from the grazing. The owners did this because they had an incentive to take care of their land. But no one owned the land outside the ranch. It was open to nomads and their herds. Though knowing nothing of Karl Marx, the herdsmen followed his famous advice of 1875: "To each according to his needs." Their needs were uncontrolled and grew with the increase in the number of animals. But supply was governed by nature and decreased drastically during the drought of the early 1970s. The herds exceeded the natural "carrying capacity" of their environment, soil was compacted and eroded, and "weedy" plants, unfit for cattle consumption, replaced good plants. Many cattle died, and so did humans. The rational explanation for such ruin was given more than 170 years ago. In 1832 William Forster Lloyd, a political economist at Oxford University, looking at the recurring devastation of common (i.e., not privately owned) pastures in England, asked: "Why are the cattle on a common so puny and stunted? Why is the common itself so bare-worn, and cropped so differently from the adjoining inclosures?" Lloyd's answer assumed that each human exploiter of the common was guided by self-interest. At the point when the carrying capacity of the commons was fully reached, a herdsman might ask himsel

Examines the concepts of wilderness protection & biodiversity conservation & the different priorities & perceptions of indigenous peoples living within many regions that have been established as protected areas. Discussion is included on wilderness & protection; indigenous peoples & their rights; protecting biodiversity, the social impacts of wilderness protection; the politics of parks; society & biodiversity; parks for people: management alternatives; conservation outside protected areas; from national parks to global benefits: conservation of the global commons; & indigenous intellectual property rights.Ó Extensive bibliography. « Menos

Agriculture at a Crossroads: Synthesis Report of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development (IAASTD). Edited by B. D. McIntyre, H. R. Herren, J. Wakhungu and R. T. Watson. Washington, DC: Island Press (2008), pp. 95, US$20.00. ISBN 978-1-59726-550-8.

Donovan Campbell and Clinton Beckford Article: Negotiating Uncertainty: Jamaican Small Farmers' Adaptation and Coping Strategies, Before and After Hurricanes-A Case Study of Hurricane Dean Sustainability 2009, 1(4), 1366-1387; doi:10.3390/su1041366 Received: 29 October 2009 / Accepted: 10 December 2009 / Published: 16 December 2009 Show/Hide Abstract | Download PDF Full-text (1801 KB) (This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Agriculture) Philip H. Howard Article: Visualizing Consolidation in the Global Seed Industry: 1996-2008 Sustainability 2009, 1(4), 1266-1287; doi:10.3390/su1041266 Received: 28 October 2009 / Accepted: 4 December 2009 / Published: 8 December 2009 Show/Hide Abstract | Download PDF Full-text (933 KB) (This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Agriculture) Hossein Mousazadeh, Alireza Keyhani, Hossein Mobli, Ugo Bardi and Toufic El Asmar Article: Sustainability in Agricultural Mechanization: Assessment of a Combined Photovoltaic and Electric Multipurpose System for Farmers Sustainability 2009, 1(4), 1042-1068; doi:10.3390/su1041042 Received: 9 September 2009 / Accepted: 6 November 2009 / Published: 17 November 2009 Show/Hide Abstract | Download PDF Full-text (910 KB) (This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Agriculture) Madhu Subedi, Trevor J. Hocking, Michael A. Fullen, Alison R. McCrea and Eleanor Milne Article: Lessons from Participatory Evaluation of Cropping Practices in Yunnan Province, China: Overview of the Effectiveness of Technologies and Issues Related to Technology Adoption Sustainability 2009, 1(3), 628-661; doi:10.3390/su1030628 Received: 9 August 2009 / Accepted: 9 September 2009 / Published: 16 September 2009 Show/Hide Abstract | Download PDF Full-text (195 KB) (This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Agriculture) Travis A. Smith, Biing-Hwan Lin and Chung L. Huang Article: Growth and Development in the U.S. Retail Organic Food Sector Sustainability 2009, 1(3), 573-591

Tadeusz W. Patzek Article: A Probabilistic Analysis of the Switchgrass Ethanol Cycle Sustainability 2010, 2(10), 3158-3194; doi:10.3390/su2103158 Received: 24 August 2010; in revised form: 26 September 2010 / Accepted: 29 September 2010 / Published: 30 September 2010 Show/Hide Abstract | Download PDF Full-text (857 KB) (This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Agriculture) Crystal Snyder and Dean Spaner Review: The Sustainability of Organic Grain Production on the Canadian Prairies-A Review Sustainability 2010, 2(4), 1016-1034; doi:10.3390/su2041016 Received: 2 March 2010; in revised form: 29 March 2010 / Accepted: 12 April 2010 / Published: 14 April 2010 Show/Hide Abstract | Download PDF Full-text (215 KB) (This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Agriculture) Masakazu Komatsuzaki and M. Faiz Syuaib Article: Comparison of the Farming System and Carbon Sequestration between Conventional and Organic Rice Production in West Java, Indonesia Sustainability 2010, 2(3), 833-843; doi:10.3390/su2030833 Received: 1 February 2010; in revised form: 20 February 2010 / Accepted: 1 March 2010 / Published: 22 March 2010 Show/Hide Abstract | Download PDF Full-text (719 KB) (This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Agriculture) David Conner, Kathryn Colasanti, R. Brent Ross and Susan B. Smalley Article: Locally Grown Foods and Farmers Markets: Consumer Attitudes and Behaviors Sustainability 2010, 2(3), 742-756; doi:10.3390/su2030742 Received: 9 February 2010; in revised form: 4 March 2010 / Accepted: 10 March 2010 / Published: 12 March 2010 Show/Hide Abstract | Download PDF Full-text (301 KB) (This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Agriculture) Hossein Shabanali Fami, Javad Ghasemi, Rahil Malekipoor, Parinaz Rashidi, Saeede Nazari and Arezoo Mirzaee Article: Renewable Energy Use in Smallholder Farming Systems: A Case Study in Tafresh Township of Iran Sustainability 2010, 2(3), 702-716; doi:10.3390/su2030702 Received: 28

Special Issue "Renewable Agriculture" Quicklinks Special Issue Editors Published Papers Special Issue Information Keywords Planned Papers A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2009) Special Issue Editor Guest Editor Dr. Stephen S. Jones Director, Northwestern Research and Extension Center, Washington State University, Mount Vernon, Washington 98273, USA E-Mail: joness@wsu.edu Published Papers Click here to see a list of 19 papers that have been published in this special issue. Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, For centuries the perceived need for an immediate and dramatic increase in agricultural production has been a theme throughout the developed world. But only very recently, and with less urgency, has society recognized the need for the true sustainability of agricultural production. For long-term sustainability, agriculture must have the capacity for renewal. Even the most basic forms of agriculture require an input of energy, this in essence is what defines the system as agricultural. Starting with human and animal labor, energy inputs have developed into an industrial system using fertilizers, water, seed, pest control, and other products often brought in from off the farm. While these products may increase production, for the most part they are non-renewable, require vast amounts of fuel to produce and transport, are costly, and may harm the native organisms and environment. Additionally, most seed in industrial agriculture is non-renewable due to legal and genetic mechanisms that make it problematic for farmers to save and replant what they have grown on their farms. Is a renewable agriculture with a high level of productivity possible? What research is underway to test the robustness of current systems when measured against a standard of true long-term sustainability? Stephen S. Jones, Ph. D. Guest Editor   Submission Information All papers should be submitted to

rom regional systems of innovation to regions as innovation policy spaces Elvira Uyarra, Kieron Flanagan Received 7 April 2009; in revised form 14 January 2010 Abstract. The regional systems of innovation concept is well established in academic and practitioner discourses about innovation and economic development. As with the innovation systems approach more generally, the use of the concept has expanded significantly from its initial analytical purpose and has been extensively used to inform policy making. We identify a number of dangers associated with the use of regional systems of innovation as a normative concept which both overstates and at the same time underemphasises the roles regions play as policy-making and implementation spaces. These issues are explored in the paper with an illustration of the North West region of England

Foro Internacional "Modelos en Gestión de la Innovación Regional Agrícola y Agroindustrial" Escrito por daniela Jueves 22 de Julio de 2010 12:11 El próximo 28 de julio se llevará a cabo en Bogotá un espacio de reflexión denominado  Foro Internacional "Modelos en Gestión de la Innovación Regional Agrícola y Agroindustrial. Experiencia de Francia y España", sin ningún costo, que pretende "dar a conocer la experiencia internacional en gestión de la innovación regional, revisando casos puntuales como polos de competitividad, parques tecnológicos y centros tecnológicos aplicados al sector agrícola y agroindustrial" El evento contará con más de cinco conferencias que irán desde las 7:00 AM hasta las 5:00 PM y dirigido a los empresarios del sector agrícola y agroindustrial, productores, procesadores, comercializadores, empresas prestadoras de servicios; Universidades y Centros de Investigación e Instituciones de apoyo al sector. La presentación de experiencias regionales e internacionales, panel de preguntas donde los asistentes tendrán la oportunidad de interactuar con los conferencistas, y una muestra de afiches que hace parte de proyectos de innovación y desarrollo tecnológico en la región; serán algunas de las actividades programadas. Entre los conferencistas están: María Isabel Agudelo, Vicepresidenta de Competitividad  de la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá; Jesús Alberto Villamil, Director ejecutivo  Corredor Tecnológico Agroindustrial; Yves Gidoin, Co-presidente de la comisión internacional del polo Vegepolys y Consejero de comercio Exterior de Francia; Jean Francois Runnel Belliard, Director de Agropolo y Jorge Saludes, Director Proyectos Internacionales Centro Tecnológico Ainia. Cierre de inscripciones: 26 de julio Para más información: E-mail: agroindustrialmega@ccb.org.co Teléfono: 3830330   Lugar: Centro Empresarial Salitre - Avenida Eldorado 68D-35 piso 1 Ciudad: Bogotá D.C http://www.ccb.org.co/contenido/co

Innovation,competitiveness and Agro-industrial Development 0 Resenhas IICA Biblioteca Venezuela

Innovation and Growth: Chasing a Moving Frontier Vandana Chandra, Pier Carlo Padoan, Deniz Eröcal, Carlos A. Primo Braga 0 Resenhas OECD Publishing, 2009 - 264 páginas Innovation is crucial to long-term economic growth, even more so in the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis. Making innovation-driven growth happen requires action in a wide range of policy areas, from education and science and technology to product and labour markets and trade. The OECD and the World Bank are joining forces to work more closely on innovation, particularly insofar as this issue is a crucial factor in the success of development policy, notably in middle-income economies. In this volume, the two organisations jointly take stock of how globalisation is posing new challenges for innovation and growth in both developed and developing countries, and how countries are coping with them. The authors discuss options for policy initiatives that can foster technological innovation in the pursuit of faster and sustainable growth. The various chapters highlight how the emergence of an integrated global market affects the impact of national innovation policy. What seemed like effective innovation strategies (e.g. policies designed to strengthen the R&D capacity of domestic firms) are no longer sufficient for effective catch-up. The more open and global nature of innovation makes policies for innovation more difficult to design and implement at the national scale alone. These challenges are further complicated by new phenomena, such as global value chains and the fragmentation of production, the growing role of global corporations, and the ICT revolution. Where and why a global corporation chooses to anchor its production affects the playing field for OECD and developing economies alike.

Platforms, Markets and Innovation Annabelle Gawer 0 Resenhas Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010 - 396 páginas 'In her pioneering book Platform Leadership (with Michael Cusumano), Gawer gave us the strategy of building coalitions of customers, suppliers, and complementors. Now, she brings together a number of the leading researchers in the area of platform strategy to give us a book that will be a key reference for both practitioners and academics. Adam Brandenburger, New York University, US 'Annabelle Gawer's collected volume of research shows that a vibrant community of scholars has arisen around platforms and innovation. Each of the chapters is first rate, with top researchers offering some of their latest work. This will be an indispensable book for students of innovation and technology management everywhere. Henry Chesbrough, University of California, Berkeley, US 'Annabelle Gawer's Platforms, Markets and Innovation is the first serious exploration of the critical but subtle role that platforms play in business, society and our personal lives. As digital technologies penetrate every nook and cranny of the world around us, we rely on platforms to both help us use the new technologies, as well as to organize new markets of innovation that add applications on top of the platforms and make them far more valuable. Dr Gawer's excellent book is designed to help us understand the mysterious nature of platforms. It brings together the insights of twenty-four experts around the world who contributed to the fourteen chapters of the book. Dr Gawer's book is invaluable to anyone trying to understand the nuanced nature of platforms, and their implications for the evolution of innovation in the 21st century. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM Academy of Technology, US The emergence of platforms is a novel phenomenon impacting most industries, from products to services. Industry platforms such as Microsoft Windows or Google, embedded within industrial ecosystems, have redesigned our in

Institutions and Sustainability: Political Economy of Agriculture and the Environment - Essays in Honour of Konrad Hagedorn Volker Beckmann 0 Resenhas シュプリンガー・ジャパン株式会社, 2009 - 387 páginas The institutional perspective on the management of natural resources in the light of the interdisciplinary debate on sustainability is the focus of the agricultural and resource economist Konrad Hagedorn. Institutions and Sustainability reflects the latest trends in combining institutions and sustainability, summarises new conceptual developments in environmental economics and outlines new approaches towards the analysis of governance of natural resources.The political economy of economic development and agricultural policy highlights the role of political institutions and the difficulties of reform towards sustainability. International scholars provide approaches and frameworks for analysing modes of governance in natural resource management. Empirical studies look into the role of property rights and collective action for coping with environmental problems and outline theoretical and methodological challenges of the institutional analysis for sustainability

Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and Central America provide a wealth of international examples of innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political ecology and economics of forest management, and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests. A concluding chapter draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent decades and sets out some thoughts for the future. Published with IUCN

Forest destruction throughout the world poses significant risks. Not only are forests a source of valuable timber and non-timber products, but they also provide important environmental services that help sustain life on Earth. However, only rarely do beneficiaries pay for the services they receive, resulting in low incentives to conserve forests, and limiting opportunities for rural development. Market-based approaches are thought to offer considerable promise as a means to promote forest conservation, and as a new source of income for rural communities. However, it has proven difficult to translate the theory into practice. Based on extensive research and case studies of markets for biodiversity conservation, watershed protection and carbon sequestration, this book demonstrates how payment systems can be established in practice, their effectiveness and their implications for the poor. This state-of-the-art review of emerging markets for forest environmental services will be vital for decision-makers and professionals as well as for researchers, teachers and students of environmental economics and forestry.

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Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen answer a few questions about this month's new hot paper in the field of Economics & Business. From *>>January 2008 Field: Economics & Business Article Title: Why we need a generalized Darwinism, and why generalized Darwinism is not enough Authors: Hodgson, GM;Knudsen, T Journal: J ECON BEHAV ORGAN Volume: 61 Issue: 1 Page: 1-19 Year: SEP 2006 * Malting House,1 Burton End, Wickham CB1 6SD, Cambs, England. * Univ Hertfordshire, Sch Business, Hatfield AL10 9AB, Herts, England. * Univ So Denmark, Dept Mkt, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.   Why do you think your paper is highly cited? "This paper argues that there exists no alternative to the core Darwinian principles of variation, selection, and inheritance to explain the evolution of such systems.." There is now a large and growing interest in the relevance of core Darwinian principles for the analysis of social and economic evolution.   Does it describe a new discovery, methodology, or synthesis of knowledge? The novelty in the paper lies in its use of recent work in evolutionary theory and the philosophy of science to clarify and apply core Darwinian evolutionary ideas.   Would you summarize the significance of your paper in layman's terms? It is a foremost and up-to-date account of why Darwinian principles are relevant for the social as well as the natural sciences. This paper argues that there exists no alternative to the core Darwinian principles of variation, selection, and inheritance to explain the evolution of such systems. Neither the actual existence of human intentionality nor the hypothetical possibility of Lamarckian acquired character inheritance offers a barrier to the use of Darwinian principles. On the contrary, Darwinism is always required to complete the explanation. However, while Darwinian principles are always necessary to explain complex evolving population systems they are never sufficient on their own.   How did you bec

On the sustainability of the capitalist order: Schumpeter's capitalism, socialism and democracyrevisited Filip Caeldries New York University, USA Available online 23 March 2002. Abstract The present study provides a contemporary reading of Schumpeter's instability-of-capitalism thesis as formulated in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942). The study of the sustainability of the Western position in capitalism focuses on: (1) the dissociation between private and social objectives in welfare capitalism, (2) the deconstruction of the moral-ethical principles on which the capitalist order was founded, (3) the threat of egalitarianism, (4) the role of the intellectual class, and (5) the cultural contradictions of capitalism. Contrary to claims that the disolution of the state socialist order signals a victory for capitalism it is observed that capitalism remains exposed to powerful challenges. "[B]etween now and the year 2000, the order of money will become universal. From Santiago to Beijing, from Johannesburg to Moscow, all economic systems will worship at the altar of the market" "But capitalism's very success creates the conditions for failure" (Attali, 1991, Millenium, pp. 120, 118)