250,000 Families Campaign: The existence of flavor and taste

Stephen Sherwood*, Ana Deaconu, Myriam Paredes

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Abstract

Innovation systems (IS) are taken to be coherent and consistent narratives or discourses. This chapter uses the Group/Grid or Cultural Theory (CT) to distinguish four competing IS narratives, each with their own theory of change, criterion variables, strategies, pathways of innovation and designs for innovation platforms (IP): 1. The business model of agronomy (BMA), based on the methodological individualism of the diffusion of innovations and ‘agricultural treadmill’ paradigms and focusing on technology development to raise yields.
2. Package and value chain approaches that seek to enable individual entrepreneurship through access to services, inputs, credit and markets and other institutions that reduce transaction costs. 3. Promotion of rules and regulations (hierarchical institutions) to constrain the pursuit of individual interests for some public goods (governance, control of corruption, sustainable use of natural resources). 4. Egalitarian approaches that seek to empower, emancipate, strengthen civil society and enhance social capital. This framework proves useful for analysing the history of agricultural development in Industrial countries and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to point to ways forward for inclusive approaches to mobilize the vast productive resources under smallholder management in Africa.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFood, Agriculture and Social Change: The Everyday Vitality of Latin America
EditorsStephen Sherwood, Alberto Arce, Myriam Paredes
PublisherRoutledge
Pages198-210
ISBN (Electronic)9781315440088
ISBN (Print)9781138214972
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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