Adaptive management in agricultural innovation systems: The interactions between innovation networks and their environment

Klerkx, Laurens; Aarts, Noelle; Leeuwis, C.

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2010.03.012

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“…Formal and informal networks of information-sharing relationships between individuals and groups play important roles in the facilitation of natural resource management, the encouragement or prevention of changes in land use, agricultural innovation, and the diffusion and adoption of farming practices (Bodin et al 2006;Cadger et al 2016;Conley and Udry 2001;Demiryurek 2010;Hoang et al 2006;Isaac 2012;Isaac et al 2014;Klerkx et al 2010;Leeuwis 2004;Matous and Todo 2015;Matouš et al 2013;Prell et al 2009Prell et al , 2010Rogers 2003;Solano et al 2003;Spielman et al 2009Spielman et al , 2011Tengö and Belfrage 2004).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Social Network and Spatially Distribmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, external bridging links are useful for accessing locally unavailable information about sustainable natural resource management (Bodin and Crona 2009;Demiryurek 2010;Isaac et al 2007;Isaac and Matous 2017;Newig et al 2010;Newman and Dale 2007). BBoundary-spanning individuals^(i.e., individuals who connect different networks) and external links to outreach professionals are known to contribute to the innovativeness of agricultural systems (Klerkx et al 2010;Lubell et al 2011). Bridging ties across distinctive groups can diffuse insular land management techniques by exposing network members to different practices (Cadger et al 2016;Klerkx and Leeuwis 2008;Klerkx and Leeuwis 2009;Newman and Dale 2005).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Social Network and Spatially Distribmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Matouš

Todo

2018

Reg Environ Change

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Agrarian communities in different regions develop diverse coping strategies to address the environmental changes they face. In this work, we test how to stimulate farmers' social learning across diverse regions to promote informed responses to soil degradation. We invited 117 randomly selected members of 16 randomly selected Sumatran communities to three 3-day networking and training events in regions with diverse socio-environmental histories. One event was held in the respondents' remote rural district (Tanggamus), the second was held in a more densely populated region on Sumatra Island (Kalianda), and the third was held in a heavily populated region on Java Island (Garut and Ciamis). Eighteen months later, we surveyed the information-sharing networks and agricultural practices of 370 members of these communities. The participants had become popular sources of agricultural advice, but the strength of this impact depended on the region in which their networking intervention was conducted. The participants in the event on Java had become the most central members of their communities. Although all the participants received the same formal information, those who interacted with the farmers in a region with the longest history of population pressure and land degradation management were more likely to adopt the recommended practices. The participants in this intervention doubled their odds of adopting organic fertilizers compared with those who networked only with peers in their local environment. Environmental memory of coping with change can be shared between regions through social learning, which can be stimulated by simple interventions.

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Social Network and Spatially Distribmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Social Network and Spatially Distribmentioning

confidence: 99%

An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Matouš

Todo

2018

Reg Environ Change

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“…In other cases, large-scale farming operations create their own in-house expertise. The complex, specialized nature of agricultural knowledge networks challenges the broad stereotype of Bone farmer, one farm.^Agricultural food systems and innovation systems require sharing of knowledge and coordinated action from many different specialized individuals and organizations (Klerkx et al 2010;Wigboldus et al 2016;McCullough and Matson 2016).…”

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Innovation, cooperation, and the structure of three regional sustainable agriculture networks in California

Levy

Lubell

2017

Reg Environ Change

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Regional agroecological systems are examples of complex adaptive systems, where sustainability is promoted by social networks that facilitate information sharing, cooperation, and connectivity among specialized components of the system. Much of the existing literature on social capital fails to recognize how networks support multiple social processes. Our paper overcomes this problem by analyzing how the social networks of wine grape growers exhibit structural features related to multiple social processes: ties to central actors that build bridging social capital and facilitate the diffusion of innovations, ties that close triangles and build bonding social capital to solve cooperation dilemmas, and ties to individuals that span community boundaries to connect specialized components of the system. We use survey data to measure the communication networks of growers in three viticulture regions in California. A combination of descriptive statistics, conditional uniform random graph tests, and exponential random graph models provides empirical support for our hypotheses. The findings reflect regional differences in geography and institutional histories, which may influence the capacity to respond to regional environmental change.

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“…Convergent learning, the type of learning that is the most promising for regime change from a theoretical point of view, was found in the PV projects related to replication in a niche and not to niche splitting. So it is all the more relevant to specify analytically types of learning and types of niche development and their respective process conditions, and to study the role of these processes in the interaction of the projects with the regime and in diverse transition paths at a more general level (Geels & Schot, 2007;Smith, 2007;Klerkx et al 2010).…”

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Convergent and divergent learning in photovoltaic pilot projects and subsequent niche development

Mierlo

2012

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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A proposed strategy to facilitate the use and development of radical new sustainable technologies is the creation of niches. Learning in these niches and the social embedding of learning experiences can stimulate changes in existing sociotechnological regimes. Pilot projects in which new technologies are used may form part of these niches. This article describes the results of a Dutch research project involving photovoltaics on learning within pilot projects and subsequent actions of the participating parties. The central questions are whether and how internal processes, such as open and creative negotiations, foster learning and how such learning relates to subsequent niche developments. The study suggests that pilot projects could encourage both convergent and divergent learning, depending on whether participants' learning experiences and expectations of the new technology start to align. Although the two types of learning can coexist, they seem related to different process conditions. The implication of these findings is that the management of pilot projects to contribute to regime change involves strategic choices about stimulating either the opening or the closing of the novelty's interpretative flexibility.

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Adaptive management in agricultural innovation systems: The interactions between innovation networks and their environment

Cited by 546 publications

References 45 publications

An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Innovation, cooperation, and the structure of three regional sustainable agriculture networks in California

Convergent and divergent learning in photovoltaic pilot projects and subsequent niche development

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