Agri-Innovations and Development Challenges: Engineering, Value Chains and Socio-economic Models Vanessa Casadella

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1786309157
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1786309150
• Author(s): Vanessa Casadella, Dimitri Uzunidis

Innovation is a major challenge for economic development and social progress. Faced with the ecological and food problems that the world is currently experiencing, the legitimacy of innovation takes on its full meaning, particularly in developing countries. As emphasized by international organizations (UN, FAO), building skills and abilities in the agricultural and food sectors are necessary when launching innovation processes for the benefit of suffering populations.

This book deals with different experiences launched in many developing countries in these sectors and shows how local initiatives can provide answers to the pessimism of experts and the media. Multidisciplinary analysis and practices explain how collective work creates value chains that can foster local and national economic development. The authors revisit the innovation agri-food models that contribute to economic development.

Agri-Innovations and Development Challenges is composed of general presentations of innovations applied in developing countries, as well as specific studies on the joint valorization of knowledge and experience in agri-food engineering.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 Big Changes in Global Food Security and the Issue of Development: Challenges and Hopes 1

Chapter 2 Agri-environmental Frugal Innovation and Sustainable Development 13

Chapter 3 The National Innovation System as Applied to Agriculture: A Methodological Proposal for Diagnosis in Africa 37

Chapter 4 Adoption of Rice Technological Innovations for Technical Efficiency in Senegal 59

Chapter 5 Characterization of the Sectoral Cocoa Innovation System in Cameroon 79

Chapter 6 Valorization of the Date Industry in Tunisia by Combining “Modern” and “Traditional” Knowledge and Techniques: Difficulties, Successes and Prospects 97

Chapter 7 Technology, Innovation and Sustainability of the Soybean Chain: Study of the Cameroonian Cotton Front Facing Environmental Challenges 123

Chapter 8 Impact of Good Agricultural Practices on Cashew Nut Crop Yields in Senegal 157

Chapter 9 Bioeconomy and Sustainable Conservation of Plants and Forests in Madagascar 175

Chapter 10 Bricolage in Agriculture Sector: Emergence Dynamic and Consequences in Vietnam 197

Chapter 11 The Contribution of Food Hubs in the Digital Age to the Sustainable Agri-food Transition: A Review of Research in Sub-Saharan Africa 219

Chapter 12 Total Processing of Soy Glycine max through Valorization of the Tofu Whey into Cosmetic Products 239

List of Authors 253

Index 257

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