Line LouahUniversité Libre de Bruxelles | ULB · Interfaculty School of Bioengineers
Line Louah
PhD student
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Introduction
In food systems research, human ecology (practices, worldviews, networks) is rarely taken into account even though humans are the keystone species. Part of the reasons for this gap is the lack of methodological formatting of agronomists/ecologists wishing to understand systemic barriers to innovation and how overcome them. My PhD research aims to remedy this gap. Work is based on exchanges with stakeholder networks involving agroecological innovations clearly holding potential for upscaling.
Education
September 2005 - September 2010
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Agroforestry (AF) is promoted as an environmentally sound farming practice to address the pressing challenges of meeting a rising global demand for agricultural commodities while conserving biodiversity. Although AF played an important role in European farming in the past, reintroducing the planting of trees in fields is a radical innovation in the...
We address in this paper opportunities of Q Methodology for empirical agricultural innovation studies. In the systems perspective on innovation, multi-actor innovation networks are seen as a key strategy to successful innovation. Given the several types of actors involved, the scientific and policy literature points at the need for 'innovation brok...
