Sustainability Transitions Researcher: Bridging gaps between theory and practice | Doughnut Economics Advocate
One of the pillars of sustainability is to improve worldwide social equity. However, when we say it in this way, this sounds very broad and a bit abstract. How can we then narrow down to potential actions that can lead our projects to target beyond the economic benefit, and increase their social equity value? For this, work is now being done to characterize and define "just transitions" and "social inclusion" pathways. In this paper we propose a set of principles, that brings together social theories and social practice in the agricultural for development sector. Our proposed results show that the following seven equity principles could be applied in projects to increase their social inclusion value: 1) Recognize AR4D Power Dynamics 2) Define Goals and Anti-Goals (scoping the beneficiaries) 3) Build Global “Horizontal” Partnerships 4) Acknowledge Social Differences among Innovation Users and Non-Users 5) Innovate and Curate Innovation Appropriately 6) Assess Impact and Reflect 7) Develop Inclusive Systems Capacity So happy to have researched, discussed, and done all this analysis together with my great team of co-authors: Erin McGuire MAHA Al-ZU'BI, Ph.D. María Boa Giang Luu Thi Thu Janelle Sylvester. Thank you Erin for putting us together, to research on this. Full open access paper here: https://lnkd.in/ekqSpQwE #equity #principles #ag4d #agriculture #developmend #practical #appliedscience #socialtheories #inclusion #socialtransformation
