Syndhia MATHE - Academia.edu (original) (raw)
Papers by Syndhia MATHE
Les nouveaux modes d’organisation des processus d'innovation, 2018
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - SHS, Feb 22, 2006
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - memSIC, 2013
National audienceIn spite of the abundance of initiatives aiming at constructing sustainable deve... more National audienceIn spite of the abundance of initiatives aiming at constructing sustainable development indicators, we observe today that a few attempts have been made regarding sustainable development appropriation. This brings up the question of conditions and procedures of its implementation. Firstly, the authors illustrate the abundance of referentials and initiatives enabling to implement sustainable development in aquaculture. They develop a chart to assess such initiatives with regards to the main features of sustainable development. Secondly, this paper outlines the co-construction approach of principles, criteria and indicators, selected in reference to the assumption that implementing sustainable development requires a stakeholder commitment and a collective learning process. The construction of indicators is based on criteria which refer to principles accounting for local issues and stakeholder representations of sustainable development. The Principles-Criteria-Indicator...
Revista Geográfica de Valparaíso
La Gobernanza Territorial (GT) se ha convertido en un reto para la implementación de políticas pú... more La Gobernanza Territorial (GT) se ha convertido en un reto para la implementación de políticas públicas y la necesidad de los actores del desarrollo territorial. En este trabajo se presenta un marco analítico de gobernanza territorial construido como parte de un proyecto de investigación multidisciplinar centrado en el tema de las innovaciones organizacionales en los acuerdos de gobernanza. La proposición metodológica surge primero construyendo una definición operacional común al equipo de investigación y luego la traducción en guía de análisis. Proponer una guía no es un ejercicio fácil si se quiere tener en cuenta las especificidades de las situaciones locales. De hecho, los dispositivos y las instrumentos son contextuales y la gobernanza plural, producto de los objetivos y las dinámicas pasadas. Estas pueden surgir de una estrategia de explotación o de exploración. Ilustramos la capacidad operativa de la metodología apoyándonos en un trabajo de campo realizado a cabo en tres situ...
National audienceMany sustainable development referentials in the field of aquaculture have been ... more National audienceMany sustainable development referentials in the field of aquaculture have been developed over the last decade. The aim was twofold: to solve the various environmental and social crises in aquaculture, which have occurred after a period of rapid growth; and to meet the need for sectorial implementation of general recommendations regarding sustainable development. This transition towards a more sustainable type of aquaculture is all the more significant as it is considered as the key to territorial activity integration and provides the opportunity for questioning the future of this activity and professional organization, by modifying its image, and thus overcoming current constraints regarding access to highlycoveted coastal zones. Firstly, on the basis of system approaches developed in agriculture and commercial fishery, the authors propose a systemic approach grid for analyzing aquacultural systems. This chart must be consistent with the sustainable development ref...
Innovation Processes in Agro-Ecological Transitions in Developing Countries
Since 2011, innovation policies in the agri-food sector in Côte d'Ivoire have been based on desig... more Since 2011, innovation policies in the agri-food sector in Côte d'Ivoire have been based on designing a technology transfer mechanism named "innovation platforms" in order to introduce improved plant varieties and hybrids. This chapter particularly focuses on the implications of "plantain innovation platforms (PIP)" in the reorientation of local technology choices in order to ensure national food security through increased domestic food product supplies. We use the conceptual framework of the sectoral innovation system (SIS). This framework helps to characterize the functioning of the PIPs. We identified four components that structure sociotechnological innovations: research, intermediation, value chain (VC) and financing. Our results show that PIPs help to structure SIS by influencing the public policy decision process (research and innovation) in the selection of cultivars to be introduced, the cultural practices and also the food preferences, thus integrating the geographic diversity of recipients of these innovations in this developing country. These policy changes involve considering the needs of local producers and consumers for choosing plants and new technical processes. The future of these PIPs is thereby questioned.
International audienceBased on the assumption that innovation is a social construction which can ... more International audienceBased on the assumption that innovation is a social construction which can only result from a simple scientific injunction or proposition, this article emphasizes the significance of organizational innovations in relation to sustainable development. Innovation requires a structuring framework for organizing actor participation, i.e. the interactions between multiple stakeholders including researchers. The methodological protocol described and employed for the co-construction of indicators concerns the implementation of sustainable development indicators in fish farming. After recalling the epistemological foundations of their approach to innovation, the authors describe the structure and interest of the methodological protocol that they have developed in the second section. This protocol is used for facilitating the appropriation of a new reference system by integrating actors' representations. Furthermore, it is organized according to an interrelation patt...
In this paper, we present innovation platforms and their roles in supporting innovations for Afri... more In this paper, we present innovation platforms and their roles in supporting innovations for African agriculture transformation. These platforms allow their members to access various support services that facilitate the strengthening of the innovation processes. Using the typology of support services built by Mathé et al. (2016), and inquiries to the Mbalmayo (Cameroon, Center Region) innovation platform members, we have identified the services exchanged within the platform. By structuring local innovation systems, innovation platforms are strategic tools to support African agriculture transformation from the bottom up. They facilitate support for innovation actors in the agricultural sector by strengthening their capacity to innovate. However, to produce these effects, this requires strong investments in time and resources at the beginning
In order to promote cocoa agroforestry by encouraging cocoa farmers to integrate fruit trees insi... more In order to promote cocoa agroforestry by encouraging cocoa farmers to integrate fruit trees inside their cocoa orchards, cocoa certification was initially launched since 2012 in Cameroon. Nowadays, cocoa certification is adopted by a few farmers and makes up only 3 % of the national cocoa production. Using the most predominant Fairtrade certification in the SouthWest region, this study compared certified and non-certified cocoa production via a cost-benefit analysis. The results indicated that, in spite of its supplementary cost expenses (wages to hired workers, agrochemical expenses, transportation charges to cooperatives), certified cocoa production led to higher profit, net present value, internal rate of return, benefit-cost ratio greater than one and shorter pay-back period. For the certified farms, a scenario assuming no certification was analysed and its results testified that the young trees planted during cocoa certification further contributed to raise the farm profit. Overall, the profitability of cocoa agroforest was the highest if the farmer was certified, because of his/her premium earned, training received and adhesion to cooperatives where most group problems were solved. The study therefore recommended farmers to join cooperatives and regularly attend training programmes to learn more friendly environmental practices. In view of this, the government should increase cocoa premium or tie it with payments for full environmental benefits, including rewards for carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation. The Fairtrade certification bodies should attract reticent farmers to certification by convincing them on the necessity to remove the old fruit trees and replace them with new species, which were more productive to raise their income.
s.n., 2019
Based on the assumption that agricultural development increasingly involves complex undertakings,... more Based on the assumption that agricultural development increasingly involves complex undertakings, a consensus is now acknowledged regarding crucial priority to promote innovations within agriculture and across food systems in the Global southern countries (including Africa) aiming at realizing economic growth and inclusive development. Such innovations can be enhanced by a broad range of innovation support services (ISS) presently provided by a pluralistic field of support service providers (ISP). Nevertheless, the broad picture shows a multitude of suppliers addressing innovative initiatives with various approaches, tools, funding and governance mechanisms as well as varied visions of sustainability and development particularly in African context where international organization and agencies are involved into the promotion of innovations. This paper presents a system-oriented conceptual framework co-designed within the LEAP-AGRI SERVInnov project to characterize and assess ISS and ISP in three African countries: Burkina, Cameroun and Madagascar. The main finding is the need to adapt the Agricultural Innovation System AIS) approach through the involvement of hybrid and informal actors. Another insight focuses on the need to consider the ISS agricultural sub-systems that encompasses the co-existence of a pluralistic vision of sustainable development (including funding mechanisms) and, what transpires during a service relation situation. These findings should help, firstly ISPs to better design their interventions in order to reinforce their supporting activities toward innovations and secondly, help decision makers to better manage the innovation support services at the system level. The main scientific input is the development of the concept of innovation support system deduced from AIS
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2021
ABSTRACT Purpose This article explores to what extent a Delphi consensus study can help in design... more ABSTRACT 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 assessment rationales and associated epistemological and methodological debates. Second, we facilitated a process of framework design through an adapted group-based Delphi technique that we developed, based on an expert dialogue format with an initial online survey and six rounds of enriched controlled feedback. Findings The adapted Delphi process appears to be effective since experts reached a consensus on a capacity-oriented assessment model with standardized and flexible components. Dissenting views remained but were suggested as a basis for further research, with a focus on the nature and use of high-level indicators and on ways facilitating the use of evidence by decision-makers in a capacity development perspective. Several factors that triggered and hindered consensus building during the Delphi process were detected. Practical implications A number of lessons were drawn to enhance participation and consensus in further Delphi studies applied to framework design. Theoretical implications Our study underscores the different worldviews on transformation and assessment of AIS. It opens the way for the use of group-based Delphi studies to initiate the co-production of knowledge on AIS science at the international level. Originality The value of Delphi studies in addressing framework design issues has been little explored so far.
Le développement spectaculaire de l'aquaculture est aujourd'hui confronté au défi du déve... more Le développement spectaculaire de l'aquaculture est aujourd'hui confronté au défi du développement durable. Une approche par les types d'éco-innovations est mobilisée ici à propos de nouvelles logiques de production, relevant de l'intensification écologique. L'objectif est de caractériser quelques-uns des facteurs déterminants des changements en faveur de l'intensification écologique dans le cas de l'aquaculture d'étang en France et au Brésil. La revue de la littérature nous a permis d'identifier trois profils d'éco-innovation : i) maîtrise des rejets et substitution des intrants ; ii) changements organisationnels et institutionnels des modes de production et iii) prise en compte des services écosystémiques. Ces profils ont été croisés avec la typologie des aquaculteurs d'étang élaborée à partir d'enquêtes en France (Brenne et Lorraine) et au Brésil (dans la Province de Santa Catarina dans la Haute Vallée de l'Itajai et à Chapeco)....
Capacity to innovate' is an emerging concept, especially in agriculture and rural development. Th... more Capacity to innovate' is an emerging concept, especially in agriculture and rural development. There is no universally agreed definition for this concept, but many authors agree that it refers generally to the ability of actors to continuously identify constraints and opportunities, and to mobilise capabilities and resources in responsei.e. to produce and sustain innovation processes in a dynamic systems environment. Increasingly, capacity to innovate (C2I) is recognised as playing a critical role in successfully responding to a changing external environment. Facilitating and building this capacity through Research and Development (R&D) interventions is therefore crucial for building farming systems' adaptiveness and for improving the resilience and livelihoods of poor farmers and other rural actors. Yet there is no generally recognised set of metrics to assess C2I, nor is it clear how local actors understand and make use of C2I on the ground. This poster presents the first results of a study that explores various components of C2I and how local actors perceive them, and aims to develop indicators to assess them. We looked at four interventions that have aimed to improve capacity to innovate in Cameroon (Table 1) to identify which capacities were developed and how the intervention approach facilitated that change (if at all). A review of the literature was used as a starting point for developing an assessment framework to measure changes in C2I. We identified four 'core' capacities as being to a) envisage, create and be open to new ideas; b) to connect with others to access and understand new information and resources; c) to iteratively experiment, take risks, analyse and assess; and d) to work with others to achieve change. We conducted 61 semi-structured interviews and ten focus groups with producers, transformers, facilitators and researchers to explore these core capacities and their component sub-capacities. This included asking producers about specific times when having a particular capacity was essential, assessing stakeholders' perceptions of capacity development over time (at the individual and group levels), and the relative importance of different capacities. We also aimed to identify "smart" potential indicators for measuring C2I which local actors could relate to.
La culture du cacao represente une activite preponderante dans l'economie et la societe camer... more La culture du cacao represente une activite preponderante dans l'economie et la societe camerounaise. L'accroissement des preoccupations environnementales, et l'engagement des agro-industries europeennes a n'acheter que du cacao durable d'ici 2020, conduisent a considerer le developpement du cacao certifie depuis 2010. Cependant, le cacao certifie ne represente que 3% de la production nationale de cacao. L'objectif de cette etude est d'identifier les determinants institutionnels du developpement de cette innovation. L'etude met en lumiere la necessite pour les producteurs d'adherer aux organisations paysannes, pour prendre part aux activites de certification. En outre, l'insuffisance d'information, l'egalite de prix entre cacao certifie et cacao ordinaire, l'augmentation de la penibilite du travail, sont autant de facteurs qui freinent le developpement de la certification. Neanmoins, les bonnes pratiques agricoles deja mises en pla...
The PISCEnLIT project comes from the global context of aquatic productions in which fishing has a... more The PISCEnLIT project comes from the global context of aquatic productions in which fishing has achieved a limit and fish farming has a regular development and produces as important volume as fisheries. However, this development should solve several bottlenecks such as environmental and societal problems which question its sustainability. PISCEnLIT is mainly concerned by the ecological intensification of fish culture ponds and their territorial insertion using an ecosystemic approach.
L'innovation est un element central de l'adaptation de l'agriculture aux questions de... more L'innovation est un element central de l'adaptation de l'agriculture aux questions de developpement. La question des modeles agricoles en particulier ceux biologiques a meme de nourrir une population Camerounaise dans les annees a venir reste cruciale. A partir d'entretiens semi-directifs, d'une revue bibliographique des litteratures grises et scientifiques sur l'Agriculture Biologique dans les Pays en developpement, et des resultats issus de deux ateliers de reflexion sur la definition de l'agriculture biologique, nous avons analyse trois trajectoires vers l'agriculture biologique. Ces trajectoires sont basees sur l'existence de trois types d'agriculture biologique (certifiee, "naturelle", "hybride") au Cameroun. Nos resultats montrent trois trajectoires co-evoluant mettant en lumiere un pluralisme des agricultures biologiques non enferme dans la simple problematique de dualisme identifie dans la litterature. (Resume d'...
Les nouveaux modes d’organisation des processus d'innovation, 2018
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - SHS, Feb 22, 2006
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - memSIC, 2013
National audienceIn spite of the abundance of initiatives aiming at constructing sustainable deve... more National audienceIn spite of the abundance of initiatives aiming at constructing sustainable development indicators, we observe today that a few attempts have been made regarding sustainable development appropriation. This brings up the question of conditions and procedures of its implementation. Firstly, the authors illustrate the abundance of referentials and initiatives enabling to implement sustainable development in aquaculture. They develop a chart to assess such initiatives with regards to the main features of sustainable development. Secondly, this paper outlines the co-construction approach of principles, criteria and indicators, selected in reference to the assumption that implementing sustainable development requires a stakeholder commitment and a collective learning process. The construction of indicators is based on criteria which refer to principles accounting for local issues and stakeholder representations of sustainable development. The Principles-Criteria-Indicator...
Revista Geográfica de Valparaíso
La Gobernanza Territorial (GT) se ha convertido en un reto para la implementación de políticas pú... more La Gobernanza Territorial (GT) se ha convertido en un reto para la implementación de políticas públicas y la necesidad de los actores del desarrollo territorial. En este trabajo se presenta un marco analítico de gobernanza territorial construido como parte de un proyecto de investigación multidisciplinar centrado en el tema de las innovaciones organizacionales en los acuerdos de gobernanza. La proposición metodológica surge primero construyendo una definición operacional común al equipo de investigación y luego la traducción en guía de análisis. Proponer una guía no es un ejercicio fácil si se quiere tener en cuenta las especificidades de las situaciones locales. De hecho, los dispositivos y las instrumentos son contextuales y la gobernanza plural, producto de los objetivos y las dinámicas pasadas. Estas pueden surgir de una estrategia de explotación o de exploración. Ilustramos la capacidad operativa de la metodología apoyándonos en un trabajo de campo realizado a cabo en tres situ...
National audienceMany sustainable development referentials in the field of aquaculture have been ... more National audienceMany sustainable development referentials in the field of aquaculture have been developed over the last decade. The aim was twofold: to solve the various environmental and social crises in aquaculture, which have occurred after a period of rapid growth; and to meet the need for sectorial implementation of general recommendations regarding sustainable development. This transition towards a more sustainable type of aquaculture is all the more significant as it is considered as the key to territorial activity integration and provides the opportunity for questioning the future of this activity and professional organization, by modifying its image, and thus overcoming current constraints regarding access to highlycoveted coastal zones. Firstly, on the basis of system approaches developed in agriculture and commercial fishery, the authors propose a systemic approach grid for analyzing aquacultural systems. This chart must be consistent with the sustainable development ref...
Innovation Processes in Agro-Ecological Transitions in Developing Countries
Since 2011, innovation policies in the agri-food sector in Côte d'Ivoire have been based on desig... more Since 2011, innovation policies in the agri-food sector in Côte d'Ivoire have been based on designing a technology transfer mechanism named "innovation platforms" in order to introduce improved plant varieties and hybrids. This chapter particularly focuses on the implications of "plantain innovation platforms (PIP)" in the reorientation of local technology choices in order to ensure national food security through increased domestic food product supplies. We use the conceptual framework of the sectoral innovation system (SIS). This framework helps to characterize the functioning of the PIPs. We identified four components that structure sociotechnological innovations: research, intermediation, value chain (VC) and financing. Our results show that PIPs help to structure SIS by influencing the public policy decision process (research and innovation) in the selection of cultivars to be introduced, the cultural practices and also the food preferences, thus integrating the geographic diversity of recipients of these innovations in this developing country. These policy changes involve considering the needs of local producers and consumers for choosing plants and new technical processes. The future of these PIPs is thereby questioned.
International audienceBased on the assumption that innovation is a social construction which can ... more International audienceBased on the assumption that innovation is a social construction which can only result from a simple scientific injunction or proposition, this article emphasizes the significance of organizational innovations in relation to sustainable development. Innovation requires a structuring framework for organizing actor participation, i.e. the interactions between multiple stakeholders including researchers. The methodological protocol described and employed for the co-construction of indicators concerns the implementation of sustainable development indicators in fish farming. After recalling the epistemological foundations of their approach to innovation, the authors describe the structure and interest of the methodological protocol that they have developed in the second section. This protocol is used for facilitating the appropriation of a new reference system by integrating actors' representations. Furthermore, it is organized according to an interrelation patt...
In this paper, we present innovation platforms and their roles in supporting innovations for Afri... more In this paper, we present innovation platforms and their roles in supporting innovations for African agriculture transformation. These platforms allow their members to access various support services that facilitate the strengthening of the innovation processes. Using the typology of support services built by Mathé et al. (2016), and inquiries to the Mbalmayo (Cameroon, Center Region) innovation platform members, we have identified the services exchanged within the platform. By structuring local innovation systems, innovation platforms are strategic tools to support African agriculture transformation from the bottom up. They facilitate support for innovation actors in the agricultural sector by strengthening their capacity to innovate. However, to produce these effects, this requires strong investments in time and resources at the beginning
In order to promote cocoa agroforestry by encouraging cocoa farmers to integrate fruit trees insi... more In order to promote cocoa agroforestry by encouraging cocoa farmers to integrate fruit trees inside their cocoa orchards, cocoa certification was initially launched since 2012 in Cameroon. Nowadays, cocoa certification is adopted by a few farmers and makes up only 3 % of the national cocoa production. Using the most predominant Fairtrade certification in the SouthWest region, this study compared certified and non-certified cocoa production via a cost-benefit analysis. The results indicated that, in spite of its supplementary cost expenses (wages to hired workers, agrochemical expenses, transportation charges to cooperatives), certified cocoa production led to higher profit, net present value, internal rate of return, benefit-cost ratio greater than one and shorter pay-back period. For the certified farms, a scenario assuming no certification was analysed and its results testified that the young trees planted during cocoa certification further contributed to raise the farm profit. Overall, the profitability of cocoa agroforest was the highest if the farmer was certified, because of his/her premium earned, training received and adhesion to cooperatives where most group problems were solved. The study therefore recommended farmers to join cooperatives and regularly attend training programmes to learn more friendly environmental practices. In view of this, the government should increase cocoa premium or tie it with payments for full environmental benefits, including rewards for carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation. The Fairtrade certification bodies should attract reticent farmers to certification by convincing them on the necessity to remove the old fruit trees and replace them with new species, which were more productive to raise their income.
s.n., 2019
Based on the assumption that agricultural development increasingly involves complex undertakings,... more Based on the assumption that agricultural development increasingly involves complex undertakings, a consensus is now acknowledged regarding crucial priority to promote innovations within agriculture and across food systems in the Global southern countries (including Africa) aiming at realizing economic growth and inclusive development. Such innovations can be enhanced by a broad range of innovation support services (ISS) presently provided by a pluralistic field of support service providers (ISP). Nevertheless, the broad picture shows a multitude of suppliers addressing innovative initiatives with various approaches, tools, funding and governance mechanisms as well as varied visions of sustainability and development particularly in African context where international organization and agencies are involved into the promotion of innovations. This paper presents a system-oriented conceptual framework co-designed within the LEAP-AGRI SERVInnov project to characterize and assess ISS and ISP in three African countries: Burkina, Cameroun and Madagascar. The main finding is the need to adapt the Agricultural Innovation System AIS) approach through the involvement of hybrid and informal actors. Another insight focuses on the need to consider the ISS agricultural sub-systems that encompasses the co-existence of a pluralistic vision of sustainable development (including funding mechanisms) and, what transpires during a service relation situation. These findings should help, firstly ISPs to better design their interventions in order to reinforce their supporting activities toward innovations and secondly, help decision makers to better manage the innovation support services at the system level. The main scientific input is the development of the concept of innovation support system deduced from AIS
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2021
ABSTRACT Purpose This article explores to what extent a Delphi consensus study can help in design... more ABSTRACT 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 assessment rationales and associated epistemological and methodological debates. Second, we facilitated a process of framework design through an adapted group-based Delphi technique that we developed, based on an expert dialogue format with an initial online survey and six rounds of enriched controlled feedback. Findings The adapted Delphi process appears to be effective since experts reached a consensus on a capacity-oriented assessment model with standardized and flexible components. Dissenting views remained but were suggested as a basis for further research, with a focus on the nature and use of high-level indicators and on ways facilitating the use of evidence by decision-makers in a capacity development perspective. Several factors that triggered and hindered consensus building during the Delphi process were detected. Practical implications A number of lessons were drawn to enhance participation and consensus in further Delphi studies applied to framework design. Theoretical implications Our study underscores the different worldviews on transformation and assessment of AIS. It opens the way for the use of group-based Delphi studies to initiate the co-production of knowledge on AIS science at the international level. Originality The value of Delphi studies in addressing framework design issues has been little explored so far.
Le développement spectaculaire de l'aquaculture est aujourd'hui confronté au défi du déve... more Le développement spectaculaire de l'aquaculture est aujourd'hui confronté au défi du développement durable. Une approche par les types d'éco-innovations est mobilisée ici à propos de nouvelles logiques de production, relevant de l'intensification écologique. L'objectif est de caractériser quelques-uns des facteurs déterminants des changements en faveur de l'intensification écologique dans le cas de l'aquaculture d'étang en France et au Brésil. La revue de la littérature nous a permis d'identifier trois profils d'éco-innovation : i) maîtrise des rejets et substitution des intrants ; ii) changements organisationnels et institutionnels des modes de production et iii) prise en compte des services écosystémiques. Ces profils ont été croisés avec la typologie des aquaculteurs d'étang élaborée à partir d'enquêtes en France (Brenne et Lorraine) et au Brésil (dans la Province de Santa Catarina dans la Haute Vallée de l'Itajai et à Chapeco)....
Capacity to innovate' is an emerging concept, especially in agriculture and rural development. Th... more Capacity to innovate' is an emerging concept, especially in agriculture and rural development. There is no universally agreed definition for this concept, but many authors agree that it refers generally to the ability of actors to continuously identify constraints and opportunities, and to mobilise capabilities and resources in responsei.e. to produce and sustain innovation processes in a dynamic systems environment. Increasingly, capacity to innovate (C2I) is recognised as playing a critical role in successfully responding to a changing external environment. Facilitating and building this capacity through Research and Development (R&D) interventions is therefore crucial for building farming systems' adaptiveness and for improving the resilience and livelihoods of poor farmers and other rural actors. Yet there is no generally recognised set of metrics to assess C2I, nor is it clear how local actors understand and make use of C2I on the ground. This poster presents the first results of a study that explores various components of C2I and how local actors perceive them, and aims to develop indicators to assess them. We looked at four interventions that have aimed to improve capacity to innovate in Cameroon (Table 1) to identify which capacities were developed and how the intervention approach facilitated that change (if at all). A review of the literature was used as a starting point for developing an assessment framework to measure changes in C2I. We identified four 'core' capacities as being to a) envisage, create and be open to new ideas; b) to connect with others to access and understand new information and resources; c) to iteratively experiment, take risks, analyse and assess; and d) to work with others to achieve change. We conducted 61 semi-structured interviews and ten focus groups with producers, transformers, facilitators and researchers to explore these core capacities and their component sub-capacities. This included asking producers about specific times when having a particular capacity was essential, assessing stakeholders' perceptions of capacity development over time (at the individual and group levels), and the relative importance of different capacities. We also aimed to identify "smart" potential indicators for measuring C2I which local actors could relate to.
La culture du cacao represente une activite preponderante dans l'economie et la societe camer... more La culture du cacao represente une activite preponderante dans l'economie et la societe camerounaise. L'accroissement des preoccupations environnementales, et l'engagement des agro-industries europeennes a n'acheter que du cacao durable d'ici 2020, conduisent a considerer le developpement du cacao certifie depuis 2010. Cependant, le cacao certifie ne represente que 3% de la production nationale de cacao. L'objectif de cette etude est d'identifier les determinants institutionnels du developpement de cette innovation. L'etude met en lumiere la necessite pour les producteurs d'adherer aux organisations paysannes, pour prendre part aux activites de certification. En outre, l'insuffisance d'information, l'egalite de prix entre cacao certifie et cacao ordinaire, l'augmentation de la penibilite du travail, sont autant de facteurs qui freinent le developpement de la certification. Neanmoins, les bonnes pratiques agricoles deja mises en pla...
The PISCEnLIT project comes from the global context of aquatic productions in which fishing has a... more The PISCEnLIT project comes from the global context of aquatic productions in which fishing has achieved a limit and fish farming has a regular development and produces as important volume as fisheries. However, this development should solve several bottlenecks such as environmental and societal problems which question its sustainability. PISCEnLIT is mainly concerned by the ecological intensification of fish culture ponds and their territorial insertion using an ecosystemic approach.
L'innovation est un element central de l'adaptation de l'agriculture aux questions de... more L'innovation est un element central de l'adaptation de l'agriculture aux questions de developpement. La question des modeles agricoles en particulier ceux biologiques a meme de nourrir une population Camerounaise dans les annees a venir reste cruciale. A partir d'entretiens semi-directifs, d'une revue bibliographique des litteratures grises et scientifiques sur l'Agriculture Biologique dans les Pays en developpement, et des resultats issus de deux ateliers de reflexion sur la definition de l'agriculture biologique, nous avons analyse trois trajectoires vers l'agriculture biologique. Ces trajectoires sont basees sur l'existence de trois types d'agriculture biologique (certifiee, "naturelle", "hybride") au Cameroun. Nos resultats montrent trois trajectoires co-evoluant mettant en lumiere un pluralisme des agricultures biologiques non enferme dans la simple problematique de dualisme identifie dans la litterature. (Resume d'...