The political economy of bundling socio-technical innovations to transform agri-food systems
Agri-food systems transformation requires accelerated innovations to address multiple economic, environmental and health objectives. No innovation serves everyone’s interests. Political opposition to innovations is therefore inevitable. Promotion of agrifood systems innovations requires overcoming s...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2023
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| author | Barrett, Christopher B. |
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| description | Agri-food systems transformation requires accelerated innovations to address multiple economic, environmental and health objectives. No innovation serves everyone’s interests. Political opposition to innovations is therefore inevitable. Promotion of agrifood systems innovations requires overcoming such opposition. One strategy is to bundle multiple technological, socio-cultural, policy, and/or institutional innovations to build political coalitions sufficient to champion bundled innovation that might not suffice to advance one-off innovations. Bundling can translate the potential Pareto improvements of individual innovations into actual Pareto improvements more likely to enjoy political support and advance multiple societal objectives simultaneously. This chapter lays out conceptually why bundling is therefore important for the political economy of innovation to transform agri-food systems. It then illustrates the logic using three cases from Asian agricultural development: China’s Science and Technology Backyards program, a comparison of genetic advances in Green Revolution and golden rice, and the contrasting cases of Bt brinjal in India and Bangladesh. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1401122025-11-06T04:17:07Z The political economy of bundling socio-technical innovations to transform agri-food systems Barrett, Christopher B. biofortification sustainable development goals policies agricultural policies coalitions rice uncertainty reforms vegetables green revolution eggplants trusts agricultural development food systems governance Agri-food systems transformation requires accelerated innovations to address multiple economic, environmental and health objectives. No innovation serves everyone’s interests. Political opposition to innovations is therefore inevitable. Promotion of agrifood systems innovations requires overcoming such opposition. One strategy is to bundle multiple technological, socio-cultural, policy, and/or institutional innovations to build political coalitions sufficient to champion bundled innovation that might not suffice to advance one-off innovations. Bundling can translate the potential Pareto improvements of individual innovations into actual Pareto improvements more likely to enjoy political support and advance multiple societal objectives simultaneously. This chapter lays out conceptually why bundling is therefore important for the political economy of innovation to transform agri-food systems. It then illustrates the logic using three cases from Asian agricultural development: China’s Science and Technology Backyards program, a comparison of genetic advances in Green Revolution and golden rice, and the contrasting cases of Bt brinjal in India and Bangladesh. 2023-10-16 2024-03-14T12:08:56Z 2024-03-14T12:08:56Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140112 en https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.001.0001 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Oxford University Press Barrett, Christopher B. 2023. The political economy of bundling socio-technical innovations to transform agri-food systems. In The Political Economy of Food System Transformation: Pathways to Progress in a Polarized World, eds. Danielle Resnick and Johan Swinnen. Chapter 9, Pp. 206-229. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.003.0009. |
| spellingShingle | biofortification sustainable development goals policies agricultural policies coalitions rice uncertainty reforms vegetables green revolution eggplants trusts agricultural development food systems governance Barrett, Christopher B. The political economy of bundling socio-technical innovations to transform agri-food systems |
| title | The political economy of bundling socio-technical innovations to transform agri-food systems |
| title_full | The political economy of bundling socio-technical innovations to transform agri-food systems |
| title_fullStr | The political economy of bundling socio-technical innovations to transform agri-food systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | The political economy of bundling socio-technical innovations to transform agri-food systems |
| title_short | The political economy of bundling socio-technical innovations to transform agri-food systems |
| title_sort | political economy of bundling socio technical innovations to transform agri food systems |
| topic | biofortification sustainable development goals policies agricultural policies coalitions rice uncertainty reforms vegetables green revolution eggplants trusts agricultural development food systems governance |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140112 |
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