Agri-environmental Frugal Innovation and Sustainable Development
Résumé
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.