Agri-environmental Frugal Innovation and Sustainable Development
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P. Bouvier-Patron, entitled “Agri-environmental Frugal Innovation and Sustainable Development”, the formation of agri-food chains must mobilize technology in a rational way to produce useful and adapted systems and products. This is the case for frugal environmental innovation, which relies on innovative creativity, whose main sources are “tinkering” and improvisation, within local communities of practice, to adjust to the constraints of the place and the time in the best way possible. The author presents the possible evolution of the cultivation of two world cereals that could be virtuous and indicative of the new model to follow: sorghum and rice. The observation shows that value chains are created or completed through frugal innovations.