Abstract Institutions in the United States are undergoing modifications that present direct
challenges for the environment and society and may result in institutional uncertainty and …

Innovation intermediaries have become numerous and diverse. Faced with this growing
heterogeneity, there is the need to advance understanding of the organisations that engage …

This paper argues that supporting food system transformation requires more than obtaining
science-based understanding and analysis of how components in the system interact. We …

This paper draws on network science and uses a Social Network Analysis to improve our
understanding of how the implementation of no-till in England is influenced by farmers' …

Recently, increasing attention has been paid to intermediaries, actors connecting multiple
other actors, in transition processes. Research has highlighted that intermediary actors (eg …

The agricultural innovation systems approach emphasizes the collective nature of
innovation and stresses that innovation is a co-evolutionary process, resulting from …

The transitions to sustainability approach has proved to be useful for academics, policy
makers and practitioners to understand and promote socio-technical transformations, often …

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN's
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem …

Reconfiguration of power relations is crucial to transformations in agro-food systems. In this
paper, we propose a conceptual basis for understanding this relation, building on the …

The process of knowledge brokering in the agricultural sector, where it is generally called
agricultural extension, has been studied since the 1950s. While agricultural extension …