Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains - Biénabe, Estelle; Rival, Alain; Loeillet, Denis; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017)
Acknowledgments -- General Foreword -- Foreword by AFD -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART 1: THE TROPICAL AGRI-CHAIN AS A VECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT? -- Chapter 2: The concept of filière or value chain: an analytical framework for development policies and strategies -- Chapter 3: History of public organizations and associations specializing in a single agricultural commodity and related to francophone Africa -- Chapter 4: Evolution of donor intervention modalities on agri-chains: the AFD experience -- Chapter 5: Alliances between agri-chain actors for a sustainable development of territories in Vietnam -- Chapter 6: Collective action in agri-chains -- Chapter 7: Agri-chains (or filières) and food and nutrition security: two independent concepts -- PART 2 - AGRI-CHAINS AS A FRAMEWORK FOR INNOVATION IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 8: Contribution of research to innovation within agri-chains -- Chapter 9: Agri-chains and partnership approaches to research -- Chapter 10: Design of cropping systems and ecological intensification -- Chapter 11: Evolution and challenges of varietal improvement strategies -- Chapter 12: Sustainable processing systems: what new strategies for tropical agri-chains? -- Chapter 13: A step towards food security -- PART 3 - DIVERSITY OF USES OF BIOMASS AND INTER-AGRI-CHAIN DYNAMICS -- Chapter 14 - Agricultural and forestry chains in the countries of the South in the age of bioenergy -- Chapter 15: Diversifying biomass uses through new cropping systems -- Chapter 16: Inter-supply chain recycling of residues -- Chapter 17: A counterpoint on waste -- PART 4 - AGRI-CHAINS AND EVALUATION OF SUSTAINABILITY -- Chapter 18: Why and how to assess the contribution of an agri-chain to sustainable development? -- Chapter 19: How to assess the environmental impacts of an agri-chain? -- Chapter 20: - Instruments to assess the social impacts of value chains -- Chapter 21: Agri-chains and evaluation of sustainability -- PART 5 - CAN AGRI-CHAINS ACT AS AN ARENA OF REGULATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT? -- Chapter 22: Agro-industrial strategies and voluntary mechanisms for the sustainability of tropical global value chains: the place of territories -- Chapter 23: The standardization of sustainable development through the insertion of agricultural global value chains into international markets -- Chapter 24: Ecosystem services, payments for environmental services, and agri-chains: what kind of regulation to enhance sustainability? -- Chapter 25: - Global strategies of firms and the financialization of agriculture -- Chapter 26:- General conclusion and new research perspectives -- List of abbreviations -- List of text boxes -- List of authors.
Keywords: Agriculture; Sustainable development; Environmental policy; Economic policy; Agriculture; Sustainable Development; Environmental Policy; Economic Policy