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Social Innovation and Sustainability Transition

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  1. Geoff Desa

    1. Lam Family College of Business, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

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  2. Xiangping Jia

    1. Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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  • Uses a historical and modern lens to reimagine the role of Extension
  • Argues for the importance of Extension
  • Imagines a different future in which state universities and land-grant colleges engage more authentically

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Radical Roots and Twenty-First Century Realities: Rediscovering the Egalitarian Aspirations of Land Grant University Extension

    • Marcia Ostrom
    Pages 1-9

  3. Palatable Disruption: The Politics of Plant Milk

    • Nathan Clay, Alexandra E. Sexton, Tara Garnett, Jamie Lorimer
    Pages 11-28

  4. To the Market and Back? A Study of the Interplay Between Public Policy and Market-Driven Initiatives to Improve Farm Animal Welfare in the Danish Pork Sector

    • Lars Esbjerg
    Pages 29-47

  5. How farmers “repair” the industrial agricultural system

    • Matthew Houser, Ryan Gunderson, Diana Stuart, Riva C. H. Denny
    Pages 49-63

  6. Agencing an innovative territorial trade scheme between crop and livestock farming: the contributions of the sociology of market agencements to alternative agri-food network analysis

    • Ronan Le Velly, Marc Moraine
    Pages 65-78

  7. Competing Food Sovereignties: GMO-Free Activism, Democracy and State Preemptive Laws in Southern Oregon

    • Rebecka Daye
    Pages 79-91

  8. Feeding the Melting Pot: Inclusive Strategies for the Multi-Ethnic City

    • Anke Brons, Peter Oosterveer, Sigrid Wertheim-Heck
    Pages 93-106

  9. Acting Like an Algorithm: Digital Farming Platforms and The Trajectories They (Need Not) Lock-in

    • Michael Carolan
    Pages 107-119

  10. Sustainability Transitions in Agri-food Systems: Insights from South Korea’s Universal Free, Eco-friendly School Lunch Program

    • Jennifer E. Gaddis, June Jeon
    Pages 121-137

  11. The Real Meal Deal: Assessing Student Preferences for “Real Food” at Fort Lewis College

    • Kathleen Hilimire, Carl Schnitker
    Pages 139-147

  12. From Texts to Enacting Practices: Defining Fair and Equitable Research Principles for Plant Genetic Resources in West Africa

    • F. Jankowski, S. Louafi, N. A. Kane, M. Diol, A. Diao Camara, J.-L. Pham et al.
    Pages 149-160

  13. A carrot isn’t a carrot isn’t a carrot: tracing value in alternative practices of food exchange

    • Galina Kallio
    Pages 161-175

  14. From left behind to leader: gender, agency, and food sovereignty in China

    • Li Zhang
    Pages 177-189

  15. Effects of Institutional Pressures on the Governance of Food Safety in Emerging Food Supply Chains: A Case of Lebanese Food Processors

    • Gumataw Kifle Abebe
    Pages 191-204

  16. Farmer Field Schools and the Co-Creation of Knowledge and Innovation: The Mediating Role of Social Capital

    • Chrysanthi Charatsari, Evagelos D. Lioutas, Alex Koutsouris
    Pages 205-220

  17. Virtualizing the ‘Good Life’: Reworking Narratives of Agrarianism and the Rural Idyll in a Computer Game

    • Lee-Ann Sutherland
    Pages 221-239

  18. When Farmers are Pulled in Too Many Directions: Comparing Institutional Drivers of Food Safety and Environmental Sustainability in California Agriculture

    • Patrick Baur
    Pages 241-260

  19. Political economy challenges for climate smart agriculture in Africa

    • Helena Shilomboleni
    Pages 261-272

  20. Sustainability Transitions in the Context of Pandemic: An Introduction to the Focused Issue on Social Innovation and Systemic Impact

    • Geoffrey Desa, Xiangping Jia
    Pages 273-281
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About this book

This book uses a historical and modern lens to reimagine the role that Extension could potentially play in catalyzing reciprocal, co-learning relationships between Land-Grant Universities and their diverse local constituencies. The establishment of statewide extension systems was once seen as a way to ensure that Land-Grant Universities would be accessible and responsive to all of a state’s residents. Extension systems continue to offer a front-door to a major public university in almost every county of the United States, but they tend to be viewed primarily as a way to translate science or distribute information from the university to the public. This books argues for the importance of Extension and shows that we are conceiving of this system too narrowly. Only by retelling the stories of the Extension and getting people to see themselves as part of the story can we imagine a different future in which state universities and land-grant colleges engage more authentically and equitably in two-way relationships with their local constituents.in catalyzing reciprocal, co-learning relationships between Land-Grant Universities and their diverse local constituencies.

Chapter “Palatable disruption: the politics of plant milk", chapter “Feeding the melting pot: inclusive strategies for the multi-ethnic city", chapter "A carrot isn't a carrot isn't a carrot: tracing value in alternative practices of food exchange", chapter “Virtualizing the 'good life': reworking narratives of agrarianism and the rural idyll in a computer game" and chapter "'Workable utopias' for social change through inclusion and empowerment? Community supported agriculture (CSA) in Wales as social innovation" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license via link.springer.com.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Lam Family College of Business, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

    Geoff Desa

  • Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

    Xiangping Jia

About the editors

Geoff Desa is a professor of management at the Lam Family College of Business. He is a member of the Sustainability Group within the Lam Family College of Business and teaches business and society, strategic management, and social entrepreneurship. Geoff's research examines resource mobilization and venture development in the technology and social entrepreneurship sector. He earned his Ph.D. in business from the University of Washington in Seattle with emphases in technology entrepreneurship, strategic management, and public affairs. Prior to that, Geoff worked at Novera Optics and at Hewlett Packard as an optical engineer. He earned his M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is on the board of the Common Data Project, a technology social venture engaged in information technology privacy.

Xiangping JIA is the Chief Scientist of International Agricultural Research Group at Agricultural InformationInstitute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). He obtained the PhD from University of Hohenheim in 2008, Germany. He has been researching a broad range of development issues associated with agricultural sustainability and innovations, combined digital and human advice in agriculture, agro-food chain governance, sustainable food systems and social finance. 

He has been an advisor and consultant for several international organizations (the World Bank, FAO, IFAD, UNEP, SDC, etc.) and a variety of entities of the private sector and the civil society. Thinking and working in hybrid constructions of issues and teams, he values partnerships and impact-oriented changes from system perspectives.

 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Innovation and Sustainability Transition

  • Editors: Geoff Desa, Xiangping Jia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18560-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18559-5Published: 10 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18562-5Published: 11 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18560-1Published: 09 November 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 390

  • Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Spinoff from journal: "Agriculture and Human Values" Volume 37, issue 4, December 2020

  • Topics: Agricultural Ethics, Research Ethics, Education, general, Sustainable Development

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