Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains

The coordinators of this book project are Mrs. Estelle Biénabe, CIRAD, Montpellier, France, Dr. Alain Rival, CIRAD, Jakarta, Indonesia and Dr. Denis Loeillet, CIRAD, Montpellier, France.

• Acknowledgments.- General Foreword.- Foreword by AFD.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- PART 1: THE TROPICAL AGRI-CHAIN AS A VECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT?.- Chapter 2: The concept of filière or value chain: an analytical framework for development policies and strategies.- Chapter 3: History of public organizations and associations specializing in a single agricultural commodity and related to francophone Africa.- Chapter 4: Evolution of donor intervention modalities on agri-chains: the AFD experience.- Chapter 5: Alliances between agri-chain actors for a sustainable development of territories in Vietnam.- Chapter 6: Collective action in agri-chains.- Chapter 7: Agri-chains (or filières) and food and nutrition security: two independent concepts.- PART 2 - AGRI-CHAINS AS A FRAMEWORK FOR INNOVATION IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.- Chapter 8: Contribution of research to innovation within agri-chains.- Chapter 9: Agri-chains and partnership approaches to research.- Chapter 10: Design of cropping systems and ecological intensification.- Chapter 11: Evolution and challenges of varietal improvement strategies.- Chapter 12: Sustainable processing systems: what new strategies for tropical agri-chains?.- Chapter 13: A step towards food security.- PART 3 - DIVERSITY OF USES OF BIOMASS AND INTER-AGRI-CHAIN DYNAMICS.- Chapter 14 - Agricultural and forestry chains in the countries of the South in the age of bioenergy.- Chapter 15: Diversifying biomass uses through new cropping systems.- Chapter 16: Inter-supply chain recycling of residues.- Chapter 17: A counterpoint on waste.- PART 4 - AGRI-CHAINS AND EVALUATION OF SUSTAINABILITY.- Chapter 18: Why and how to assess the contribution of an agri-chain to sustainable development?.- Chapter 19: How to assess the environmental impacts of an agri-chain?.- Chapter 20: - Instruments to assess the social impacts of value chains.- Chapter 21: Agri-chains and evaluation of sustainability.- PART 5 - CAN AGRI-CHAINS ACT AS AN ARENA OFREGULATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?.- Chapter 22: Agro-industrial strategies and voluntary mechanisms for the sustainability of tropical global value chains: the place of territories.- Chapter 23: The standardization of sustainable development through the insertion of agricultural global value chains into international markets.- Chapter 24: Ecosystem services, payments for environmental services, and agri-chains: what kind of regulation to enhance sustainability?.- Chapter 25: - Global strategies of firms and the financialization of agriculture.- Chapter 26:- General conclusion and new research perspectives.- List of abbreviations.- List of text boxes.- List of authors.