Innovations have the potential to help us address and overcome many of the challenges that agriculture is facing today. Yet, at the same time, they have the potential to create new, sometimes even more challenging, problems, especially when they are not governed in a sustainable way. Governing agricultural innovation sustainably requires understanding of all components that influence, and are influenced by, innovation processes, interactions across societal levels, and the normative and power dynamics that come together to shape the direction and outcomes of innovation processes. Hitherto, approaches to (agricultural) innovation and transition tend to specialize on a specific societal scale or sub-aspect of innovation or transition processes. In this article we aim to bring the strengths of some of the main approaches (Multi-Level Perspective, Agricultural Innovation Systems, Responsible Innovation, Innovation Management, Theory of Planned Behaviour) and insights from environmental governance literature together into a comprehensive framework. The framework describes seven key components and their interactions: macro context, governance system, immediate context, innovative and adaptive capacity of the actors, psychosocial factors, and the innovation process itself. Based on these, we present a subset of guiding questions that can be used diagnostically or for design purposes to support the sustainable governance of agricultural innovation processes.

创新具有帮助我们应对和克服当今农业面临的许多挑战的潜力。然而，与此同时，它们有可能产生新的、有时甚至更具挑战性的问题，尤其是当它们没有以可持续的方式进行治理时。可持续地管理农业创新需要了解影响创新过程、社会层面互动以及共同塑造创新过程方向和结果的规范和权力动态，并受其影响的所有组成部分。迄今为止，（农业）创新和转型的方法往往专注于特定的社会规模或创新或转型过程的子方面。在本文中，我们旨在发挥一些主要方法（多层次视角、农业创新系统、负责任的创新、创新管理、计划行为理论）和来自环境治理文献的见解一起形成一个综合框架。该框架描述了七个关键组成部分及其相互作用：宏观背景、治理系统、直接背景、参与者的创新和适应能力、社会心理因素和创新过程本身。基于这些，我们提出了一组指导性问题，可用于诊断或设计目的，以支持农业创新过程的可持续治理。该框架描述了七个关键组成部分及其相互作用：宏观背景、治理系统、直接背景、参与者的创新和适应能力、社会心理因素和创新过程本身。基于这些，我们提出了一组指导性问题，可用于诊断或设计目的，以支持农业创新过程的可持续治理。该框架描述了七个关键组成部分及其相互作用：宏观背景、治理系统、直接背景、参与者的创新和适应能力、社会心理因素和创新过程本身。基于这些，我们提出了一组指导性问题，可用于诊断或设计目的，以支持农业创新过程的可持续治理。