CARAPs: WHY?

Innovation is at the heart of the CambioNet project. It serves as an accelerator for the processes of agricultural and food transition in the Caribbean/Amazon region, relying on the principles of the knowledge economy. The challenge is to meet the urgent need to generate a rapid pace oftechnological, organizational, and decision-making innovations to continuously offer new products and services on a regional cooperation basin scale.

This trend implies a prominent role for intellectual capacities— the ability to produce and mobilize knowledge of all kinds and learning capacities— compared to natural resources and physical factors involved in determining economic performance. Another aspect, also related to innovation, is the increasingly tight integration of all stages of the production processes, up to the delivery of the product or service in a participatory approach to product design.(living labs).

The basic premise of the CARAPs platform is based on basic premise of the CARAPs platform is the recognition of a significant reservoir of knowledge in the Caribbean/Amazon region on the key topics addressed by the project. i.e., agroecology, bioeconomy, adaptation to climate change, etc., but they remain scattered and often isolated (language barriers, cultural obstacles, knowledge sharing in a fragmented space, …). The challenge is to mobilize them effectively in order to capitalize on and process them, with the assistance of experts and the use of artificial intelligence, to create informative materials translated into the main regional languages, ready for use by the main beneficiaries.

In this context, we have designed a logistics chain – the CARAPs platform ‘Caribbean and Amazonian Agroecological Remarckable Practices’, ‘market pull’ centered around practices of interest for agroecological transition. In CARAPs, the agroecological dimension is taken in its broadest sense, encompassing the entire value chain from production, processing, distribution to consumption/valorization.