Abstract
Aim of study: This study reviews the state of the art of collaboration for social innovation in food and rural systems. The analysis focuses on cooperation by farms and agro-industry companies. The purpose is to identify not only the state of the art of this research topic but also the main authors, the countries where these studies are conducted and the dynamics of research networks in relation to these topics. Area of study: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Material and methods: The Web of Science database was used to search for articles containing the terms ‘cooperation’, ‘networks’, ‘innovation’, ‘social’, ‘rural’ and ‘LAC’. Using VOSviewer network creation and analysis software, maps of citations, co-authorship, co-citations and co-occurrence of key-words were created and analysed. Content analysis was then performed. Finally, the research areas that the authors of the analysed articles consider to be of interest for future research were identified. Main results: The results reveal that researchers from Latin America and other regions, especially Europe and the English-speaking world, are showing a growing interest in collaborative systems for development and social innovation in LAC. Research highlights: The analysis enables further progress to be made in identifying the main drivers of collaboration in the LAC rural sector. These main drivers include social innovation, knowledge, sustainable management and social capital.
Highlights
Cooperation through innovative actions aids small producers’ access to local and global value chains, improving their income and well-being (Cook & Plunkett, 2006; Tregear & Cooper, 2016; Lazzarini, 2017; Orsi et al, 2017; Mutonyi, 2019; Okonkwo et al, 2019)
Bibliometrics maps of citations, co-authorship, co-citations, and co-occurrence of key-words include different terms to refer to cooperation, to cover the private sector and to account for all relevant agents within the food or rural system (Table 2)
The categories unrelated to the topic under analysis were excluded. The abstracts of these papers were examined to eliminate those that did not refer to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries or a rural context and those that did not include some kind of collaborative innovation
Summary
Cooperation through innovative actions aids small producers’ access to local and global value chains, improving their income and well-being (Cook & Plunkett, 2006; Tregear & Cooper, 2016; Lazzarini, 2017; Orsi et al, 2017; Mutonyi, 2019; Okonkwo et al, 2019). These collaborative actions between actors within the food value chain have been examined as part of analysis of the formal and informal relationships within knowledge and innovation systems (Garcia-Alvarez-Coque et al, 2020).
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