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Introduction
I carry out research especially in Western Africa and in Latin America on three main topics:
•Farmers’ organizations: strategies, provision of services to farmers,
Farm management and advisory services : Methods to support farmers, to strengthen advisory service providers and to improve the coordination mechanisms between advisory actors.
•Regional “innovation systems”, linking economic players with research centres, advisory services, famers’ organizations, and private companies.
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January 2015 - present
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- director of the research unit Innovation
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Publications (169)
To promote greater sustainability in agriculture, development of agroecology is increasingly being invoked. What are the conditions for establishing agroecological production in tropical regions? Based upon case studies in several tropical areas, we provide here some answers to this question. We review the “pillars” (i.e. principles) and the “imple...
Agroecology has been recognized as a paradigm that can offer multiple ecological and socioeconomic benefits. In many developing countries, the promotion of agroecology is facilitated by intermediary organizations such as Farmers' Organizations (FOs). Detailed studies on how FOs support their farmers in the adoption of agroecology innovations are st...
Purpose
This article explores to what extent a Delphi consensus study can help in designing a framework for assessing agricultural innovation systems (AIS), and this in a perspective of transformation of these systems in a diversity of countries.
Approach
First, we reviewed the diversity of existing assessment methodologies in terms of their asses...
Applied agricultural research institutes play different roles in complex agricultural innovation processes, contributing to them with other actors. To foster learning and usable knowledge on how research actions influence such lasting innovation processes, there is a need to identify the causal mechanisms linking these actions and the effects of th...
Purpose: This article explores to which extent a Delphi consensus study can help to design a framework for an action-oriented assessment of agricultural innovation systems (AIS), aiming at informing policy makers.
Approach: Acknowledging the existence of a worldwide theoretical and practical expertise on different aspects of AIS, we applied a combi...
This chapter reports on the different functions fulfilled by existing mechanisms for supporting collective innovation in the agricultural and agrifood sectors in the countries of the Global South in order to identify the potential contributions the research community can make to strengthen them. The authors show that a variety of mechanisms are nee...
Over the last decade, societal pressure has increased on public research agencies to provide evidence that their research contributes to achieve development goals. To address this challenge, the French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (Cirad), developed an ex-post impact assessment method based on the impact pathway approa...
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La innovación se impone como una palabra clave en las políticas públicas y acciones de los Estados para acompañar al sector agropecuario. Las instituciones de ciencia y tecnología, así como también los servicios de extensión agropecuaria, son convocados para orientar las transiciones tecnológicas, económicas y sociales, y generar en interacción con...
The new EU agricultural policy aims to strengthen actors’ capacities for innovation by taking into account the complexity of innovation processes. This paper characterizes the key innovation support services (ISS) that support actors in innovating. In the EU AgriSpin project, we analyzed 57 case studies
describing innovation processes. We used a co...
The new EU agricultural policy aims to strengthen actors’ capacities for innovation by taking into account the complexity of innovation processes. This paper characterizes the key innovation support services (ISS) that support actors in innovating. In the EU AgriSpin project, we analyzed 57 case studies describing innovation processes. We used a co...
The new EU agricultural policy aims to strengthen actors' capacities for innovation by taking into account the complexity of innovation processes. This paper characterizes the key innovation support services (ISS) that support actors in innovating. In the EU AgriSpin project, we analyzed 57 case studies describing innovation processes. We used a co...
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Agricultural advisory services are important to improve farm performances and the farmers’ ability to innovate. However, their effectiveness is regularly called into question. In this chapter, we discuss the evolution of agricultural advisory services and show how the mechanisms and methods used to provide advice have changed over time. There exist...
Innovation is often presented as one of the main catalysts for more sustainable and inclusive development. In the agricultural and food sectors, innovation is characterized not only by specificities arising from its relationship to nature, but also from the wide diversity of its stakeholders, ranging from farmers to consumers, and including interme...
Most agricultural research organizations strive to address societal challenges and contribute to positive societal impacts. Fulfilling this ambition involves embedding a culture of impact in organizational culture, which, in our view, entails three main elements: understanding the role of the research community in contributing to impacts over the l...
In a context of a severe funding crisis, donors and policymakers expect increased accountability from research organizations and convincing proof that public investments in research have significant and positive societal impacts. This article takes stock of the lessons learned from the use of a method (ImpresS) designed by CIRAD to analyze the impa...
L’innovation est souvent présentée comme l’un des principaux leviers pour promouvoir un développement plus durable et plus inclusif. Dans les domaines de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, l’innovation est marquée par des spécificités liées à sa relation à la nature, mais aussi à la grande diversité d’acteurs concernés, depuis les agriculteurs jus...
The role of agricultural advisory services (AAS) has considerably evolved during the last decades and a diversity of new innovation support service (ISS) functions has emerged. The plethora of new forms of ISS has one common feature, which is the activity of linking actors within the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS). So far, ther...
Le conseil en agriculture est un service important pour améliorer les performances des exploitations et les capacités des agriculteurs à innover. Toutefois, son efficacité est régulièrement questionnée. Dans ce chapitre, nous abordons l’évolution du conseil en agriculture, pour montrer tant l’évolution des dispositifs que celle des méthodes pour fo...
In Africa, farm advisory services are still dominated by the model of technology transfer. During the last two decades a new approach, based on adult learning methods, has been successfully introduced (Management Advice for Family Farms, or MAAF). The current challenge is to improve access to and the institutional and financial sustainability of MA...
Over the past decade, renewed societal demands on public research have been structured by various generic issues, while others are specific to the context of developing countries. In the first part of this article, after reviewing those issues, we examine how they reshape the analytical frameworks that structure the understanding of causal relation...
Ce guide méthodologique propose une démarche élaborée au Cirad pour évaluer l’impact de la recherche sur le développement.
Capacity development for innovation is emerging as a new way to ensure sustainable development in developing countries. In the agricultural sector, innovation is essentially collective, which calls on researchers to step out of their role as producers of knowledge in order to engage with innovating actors. While a diversity of engaged research prac...
The aim of this article is to understand how advisory services addressing farm management issues can foster strategic thinking. We consider that the evolution of strategic thinking is related to the concept of proactivity. In Benin, we analyzed the impact of learning processes triggered by an approach called “management advice for family farms” (MA...
Le conseil en agriculture est un service important pour améliorer les performances des exploitations et les capacités des agriculteurs à innover. Toutefois, son efficacité est régulièrement questionnée. Dans ce chapitre, nous abordons l’évolution du conseil en agriculture, pour montrer tant l’évolution des dispositifs que celle des méthodes pour fo...
Applied research is under increasing pressure to demonstrate its social utility Agriculture is at the heart of many burning global issues, and agricultural research for development (AR4D) is increasingly called upon to address multiple social challenges related to demographic, food system, ecological and climate transitions. However, funding for AR...
The EU AgriSpin project aims at strengthening European capacities for innovation in the agricultural sector by taking into account the non-linear, complex and context-specific innovation processes. Brokering functions and new services are key in supporting actors to innovate by facilitating interactions for co-production of knowledge, co-design of...
Purpose: The private sector’s presence in agricultural advisory services worldwide has been on the increase for over three decades. This trend has also been observed in the Mantaro Valley (Peru), in a context of dairy family farming. The objective of the article is to analyse the modalities of advisory services privatisation and assess the conseque...
Our research examines the benefits and drawbacks for cooperatives who participate in voluntary coffee certifications. We interviewed administrators at twenty Costa Rican coffee cooperatives about management practices related to voluntary certification. Voluntary certifications are popular among coffee cooperatives. Access to certified markets is fa...
In spite of the significant role played by innovation support services in the stimulation
and enhancement of innovation processes, little is documented with regards to: whether and to what degree the involved support service processes can be systematised?; what are the emerging patterns or cross-cutting linkages and which features can be used to ex...
Extension and advisory services (EAS) are well recognized as a key factor in contributing to agricultural productivity and growth. However, rigorous evaluation of EAS approaches and assessment of complex national or subnational pluralistic EAS systems are rare. This working paper examines the literature on experiential and empirical insights and ex...
The concept of sustainable agriculture aims to address the drawbacks of conventional agriculture by employing a systems approach. A systems perspective is essential to understanding sustainability, by giving the tools to explore the interconnections between the social and ecological system of the farming environment. In recent decades, a range of s...
This article explores how voluntary certifications influence the way cooperatives provide advisory services to their members and the influence of these services on agricultural practices. Case studies were conducted in four representative Costa Rican cooperatives, interviewing 20 cooperative administrators and members to determine changes in adviso...
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La asesoría para la agricultura es percibida por los actores del desarrollo agrícola como un componente importante para mejorar los desempeños de las explotaciones, principalmente porque contribuye, de manera similar a la investigación-acción en asociación (Capítulo 13...
A plurality of forms of advisory services provided by a variety of actors has recently grown in Francophone Africa. In this context experiments in MAFF (Management Advice for Family Farms) conducted in many Francophone African countries have sought to promote advice to farmers based on learning methods by using farm management tools. Questions now...
This paper analyzes the influence of the perception of farm advisers’ on the implementation of advice. It is based on a case study in Benin. Through analyzing professional profiles of advisers, their perception of their roles, and the activities that they conducted, we identified three types of advisers. There are advisers “disseminating agricultur...
In this paper, we wonder whether the implementation of agricultural advisory services (AAS) at grassroots level was influenced by the state, donors, service providers or rather by farmers. We selected three non government organizations, one farmer organisation and one public organisation providing services under different financing arrangements. We...
A la suite du retrait progressif des institutions publiques, le rôle du secteur privé dans le conseil agricole n'a cessé de croître. Cette évolution a été étudiée dans la vallée andine de Mantaro, au Pérou, même si certains centres publics de recherche et les universités régionales aient continué à animer des formations pour les producteurs. Le sec...
Agricultural advisory services are perceived by stakeholders as essential to improve farms' performance. However, in both Southern and Northern countries, only some categories of farmers have access to advice. The objective of the article is to characterize the determinants of access to advice for small farms in the French overseas departments, esp...
http://www.g-fras.org/en/ggp-notes/management-advice-for-family-farms-to-strengthen-entrepreneurial-skills.html?showall=1&limitstart=
In West Africa, during the 1990s, new innovative advisory methods were used that broke with the tradition of top- down public extension focusing on production, and instead helped meet the diversity of producers’ nee...
In West Africa, during the 1990s, new innovative advisory methods were used that broke with the tradition of top-down public extension focusing on production, and instead helped meet the diversity of producers’ needs by using participatory methods. Management Advice for Family Farms (MAFF) is one of these approaches. MAFF has been adapted for diver...
This article examines how research on the agriculture and agrifood systems mobilizes the concept of Innovation System (IS). A literature review on the IS provides an analytical framework for determining its theoretical frame of reference, its area of application and its uses. Based on this framework, a bibliometric analysis of international journal...
