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Lost in Mainstreaming? Agrifood and Urban Mobility Grassroots Innovations with Multiple Pathways and Outcomes

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Scaling green rubber cultivation in Southwest China—An integrative analysis of stakeholder perspectives

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Organizational growth strategies for Greek social enterprises’ social impact during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Territorial Social Innovation and Alternative Food Networks: The Case of a New Farmers’ Cooperative on the Island of Ibiza (Spain)

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Unpacking scaling in agricultural research for development: The role of social capital

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Exploring the functions of place-based intermediation in the governance of sustainability transitions

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Towards a Typology of Intermediaries in Transitions: A Systematic ReviewPreprint

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Grassroots Innovation for Urban Greening within a Governance Vacuum by Slum Dwellers in Dhaka

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The dynamics of change towards sustainability in developing countries: Evidence from Ghana's Waste-to-Energy transition

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Assessing opportunities for scaling out, up and deep of win-win solutions for a sustainable world

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Designing agroecological systems across scales: a new analytical framework

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The Role of Farmers’ Umbrella Organizations in Building Transformative Capacity around Grassroots Innovations in Rural Agri-Food Systems in Guatemala

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Co-innovation and socio-technological niche development: The case of livestock farming on natural grassland in Uruguay

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Introducing a Multiscalar Framework for Biocluster Research: A Meta-Analysis

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Frugal innovation in energy transitions: insights from solar energy cases in Brazil

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Exploring anticipated futures: Dutch Grassroot Initiatives anticipating futures in the energy transition

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Agroecological Approaches in the Context of Innovation Hubs

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Diffusion dynamics of the informal sector sustainable innovations: Exploring cases of grassroots innovations in India

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Agricultural nature conservation in the Netherlands: Three lenses on transition pathways

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Covid-19 as a chance for more food democracy in European cities? The responses of actors within Vienna's urban food system to the pandemic

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Blending in, to Transform the Regime from within: Niche Hybridisation Strategies of Irish Energy Communities

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Sustainable futures of agro-food? İzmir's sustainable agro-food transitions in the making

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Drivers of success when scaling innovations: insights from European agricultural and forestry co-innovation processes

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Co‐creation of business models for smallholder forest farmers’ organizations: Lessons learned from rural Ethiopia and Tanzania

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Scaling circular business models: strategic paths of second-hand fashion retail

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Forever niche: Why do organically bred vegetable varieties not diffuse?

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Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships

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Oppressed by consumerism: The emancipatory role of household accounting

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From experiments to organizational change: Learning from urban logistics projects in Groningen and Bergen

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Social movements are transformative agents for biodiversity conservation

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