Thanks. My motivation was quite simple. The new paradigm we are facing where sustainability is the entry point to agricultural development may not be easy to accept by many. And it faces two major challenges. The first one is that an ecosystem-based approach will first require to demonstrate it can actually yield development outcomes in well-identified and -analysed cases: the islands of success. The second one is that we will not be convincing if we do not move those cases up to scale: the oceans of change.
Thanks. My motivation was quite simple. The new paradigm we are facing where sustainability is the entry point to agricultural development may not be easy to accept by many. And it faces two major challenges. The first one is that an ecosystem-based approach will first require to demonstrate it can actually yield development outcomes in well-identified and -analysed cases: the islands of success. The second one is that we will not be convincing if we do not move those cases up to scale: the oceans of change.