Agricultural innovation systems has become a popular approach to understand and facilitate
agricultural innovation. However, there is often no explicit reflection on the role of …

The use of pesticides made it possible to increase yields, simplify cropping systems, and
forego more complicated crop protection strategies. Over-reliance on chemical control …

More resilient and sustainable approaches are urgently needed to minimize crop yield
losses resulting from pest activity and reduce impacts of pest management on human health …

We aim for a better conceptualization of mission-oriented innovation policy (MIP). Our
starting point is an analytical decomposition of societal problems and innovative solutions …

There is a growing concern in society about the continuing intensive usage of pesticides in
farming and its effects on environmental and human health. Insight in the intentions of …

Intensive agriculture has led to several drawbacks such as biodiversity loss, climate change,
erosion, and pollution of air and water. A potential solution is to implement management …

In response to the sustainability issues that agriculture faces in advanced economies,
agroecology has gained increasing relevance in scientific, political, and social debates. This …

Concerns about the negative impacts of productivist agriculture have led to the emergence
of two forms of ecological modernisation of agriculture. The first, efficiency-substitution …

Dominant food systems are configured from the productivist paradigm, which focuses on
producing large amounts of inexpensive and standardized foods. Although these food …

Family farms play an important role in the European countryside, yet their number is steadily
declining. This raises the question of what conveys resilience to family farms, ie the ability to …