Stakeholders’ engagement platform to identify sustainable pathways for the development of multi-functional agroforestry in Guadeloupe, French West Indies

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dc.contributor.authorBarlagne, Carla
dc.contributor.authorBézard, Marie
dc.contributor.authorDrillet, Emilie
dc.contributor.authorLarade, Arnaud
dc.contributor.authorDiman, Jean-Louis
dc.contributor.authorAlexandre, Giséle
dc.contributor.authorVinglassalon, Arséne
dc.contributor.authorNijnik, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-14T04:46:22Z
dc.date.available2023-02-14T04:46:22Z
dc.date.issued2021-08
dc.description© The Author(s) 2021. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . The Version of Scholarly Record of this Article is published in Agroforestry Systems, 2021, available online at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10457-021-00663-1 . Keywords: social innovation; socio-ecological system; innovation ecosystem; Guadeloupe; vanilla; biodiversity; Caribbean region; French West Indies.
dc.description.abstractSocial innovation is critical in shaping human-forest relationships and how farmers and scientists engage with each other to design sustainability transitions. This paper reports on the outputs of a participatory stakeholders’ engagement platform that was designed to draw on local farmers’ knowledge and experience in identifying sustainable pathways for the development of multi-functional agroforestry in Guadeloupe. Two participatory workshops were organised that aimed to gain insights into the reality faced by farmers, in particular: (i) their vision of the future, needs and aspirations; (ii) their understanding of barriers and enablers in relation to the sustainability challenges they are confronted with and; (iii) their framing of human–environment relationships in socio-ecological systems. Outputs of the activities were synthetized by the research team and represented graphically for analysis. Results show that while farmers envision prosperous multifunctional forest farms in the future, they have to face complex challenges that require solutions at multiple scales and suggest different types of innovation: social, institutional, market-based and technical. Farmers saw themselves as being part of the socio-ecological system and as custodians of the natural environment. We discuss the implications of those results in the context of the absence of a system of innovation for agroforestry in Guadeloupe and highlight the opportunity for a innovation ecosystem thinking approach that integrates better the agricultural and forestry sectors, but also between actors and scales of governance. Implementation of a Stewardship status would enable farmers achieve their vision and embrace a custodian role vis-à-vis the agroforest. Embededment of the stakeholders’ engagement platform and its enabling processes in the innovation ecosystem is key to achieve those objectives.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors are greatful to the European Commission for its support of the project on Social Innovation in Marginalized Rural Areas (SIMRA, www.simra-h2020.eu) provided from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 677622 and for its support on the Integrated Ecosystemic Value enhancement of the Guadeloupean Forest Agrobiodiversity (VALAB, https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/agri-eip/files/2019-ws-small_is_smart_booklet_final.pdf) provided from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development under the Rural Development Program Guadeloupe under Grant Agreement N° 2014FR06RDRP001. This research was also partly funded by the Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services Division of the Scottish Government through its Strategic Research Programme (2016-2021). Special thanks go to the participants to the workshops for their time and inputs into the research, to the two anonymous reviewers and to Michaela Roberts and Nathalie Cialdella for the revision of this paper. They also wish to thank Orla Shortall, Alba Juares Bourke and Adrian Budnik for language editing, Douglas Wardel Johnson for the production of visuals and Alexandre Aquilon for the photographs taken.
dc.identifier.citationBarlagne, C., Bézard, M., Drillet, E., Larade, A., Diman, J-L., Alexandre, G., Vinglassalon, A., & Nijnik, M. (2021). Stakeholders’ engagement platform to identify sustainable pathways for the development of multi-functional agroforestry in Guadeloupe, French West Indies. Agroforestry Systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-021-00663-1
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-021-00663-1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14096/261
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.titleStakeholders’ engagement platform to identify sustainable pathways for the development of multi-functional agroforestry in Guadeloupe, French West Indies
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