As the Covid-19 pandemic exposes vulnerabilities of our globalised agri-food system, local sustainable food alternatives, such as community-supported agriculture (CSA), are on rise. In CSA farmers and households co-produce sustainably independently market. CSA's benefits shortcomings well-understood but we know little about how larger networks can expand consolidate practice at scale. This pape...

One way that information technology (IT) can potentially contribute to improving sustainability, supporting economic development, and improving individual and collective well-being is by changing how food is produced, distributed and consumed. With growing interest in alternative or local food systems, there is the potential for IT to play a significant role in supporting the development of env...

This study was supported by the French National Research Agency; CERoPath (Community Ecology of Rodents and their Pathogens in Southeast Asia Project ANR 07 BDIV 012); Infectiopôle Sud; Center for Excellence on Agricultural Biotechnology; the Science and Technology Postgraduate Education and Research Development Office; the Office of Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education (AGBIO/PER...

The Forest Service, the largest agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has traditionally used the expression "community stability" to describe its rural development policy. That has meant growing and harvesting trees following principles of "sustained yield" so that local industries (and the employment they generate) can be supported over long periods of time. In recent years, however, e...

The business and technological environment in which the farming community in Australia must operate is undergoing significant change. Pressures of the land care, demography, globalisation, and technology are exerting themselves on the farmer who must to adapt to survive. In this paper we set out a proposal to explore these influences with the final objective of building a computing framework as...

Development policy increasingly focuses on building capacities to respond to change (adaptation), and to drive change (innovation). Few studies, however, focus specifically on the social and gender differentiation of capacities to adapt and innovate. We address this gap using a qualitative study in three communities in Solomon Islands; a developing country, where rural livelihoods and well-bein...