Capturing Social Innovations in Agricultural Transformation from the Field: Outcomes of a Write-Shop

Bram Peters, Marion Herens and Jan Brouwers
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Bram Peters: ICCO Cooperation Myanmar; PO Box 8190, 3503-RD Utrecht, The Netherlands
Marion Herens: Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI), Wageningen University & Research (WUR); PO Box 88, 6700-AB Wageningen, The Netherlands
Jan Brouwers: Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI), Wageningen University & Research (WUR); PO Box 88, 6700-AB Wageningen, The Netherlands

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-13

Abstract: The aim of this project was to explore the theme of social innovation for nutrition-sensitive and sustainable agriculture, resulting in examples of improved production and consumption of nutritious food. Social innovation refers to the generation and implementation of new ideas about how people organize interpersonal activities, or social interactions, to meet one or more common goals and in the process change basic routines, resources, and decision-making processes. In the country context of Myanmar, this research aimed to capture a variety of social innovation cases related to processes of agricultural transformation. Through the method of a collaborative case study write-shop, Myanmar-specific social innovations were identified, illustrating various forms of social innovation across the cases with citizen engagement processes. The write-shop method, in combination with the embedded expertise of development practitioners, proved to be a promising approach to identify niche innovations, distil insights, reframe actions, and promote critical thinking among different actors.

Keywords: social innovation; agricultural commercialization; nutrition sensitive transformation; Myanmar (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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