Bugs, Bunds, Banks, and Bottlenecks: Organizational Contradictions in the New Rice Technology

Goodell, Grace E.

doi:10.1086/451441

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“…Studies of research impact, such as Goodell (1984), demonstrate clearly how the failure to understand and work within the wider research environment (and with key research partners) can result in technically sound research leading to impractical recommendations.…”

Section: Narrow Focus Of Pmementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other authors note that research PME is dominated by a certain perception of science, which often diers from the practice of science and from local knowledge systems (Goodell, 1984;Agrawal, 1995;Mahiri, 1998). This means that methods developed are inappropriate and unrealistic as well as being detrimental to the conservation and development of local knowledge systems and structures and their ways of integrating with other knowledge systems.…”

Section: Failure To Address the Political Nature Of Evaluationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An actor-oriented approach for strengthening research and development capabilities in natural resource systems

Biggs

Matsaert

1999

Public Admin. Dev.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Failure To Address the Political Nature Of Evaluationsmentioning

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An actor-oriented approach for strengthening research and development capabilities in natural resource systems

Biggs

Matsaert

1999

Public Admin. Dev.

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“…Improvements in this situation would seem difficult to obtain. Efforts to achieve earlier and more rapid planting elsewhere have often not proved successful even in situations where the technical, managerial and social factors are more favourable (Goodell 1984). The situation is likely to be much worse on such a large system as the Rice Canal where, even if the technical and managerial capability were to exist, there is little experience of the widespread cooperation necessary at field level amongst individual farmers on a watercourse.…”

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Water management on the Rice Canal system, Pakistan

Franks

1986

Irrig Drainage Syst

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Abstract. Water management problems on the Rice Canal system in Pakistan are discussed from the standpoint both of the Executive Engineer, in charge of the day-to-day operation of the canal, and of the farmers. Particular problems are identified in relation to the pattern of canal withdrawals, the high demand for water, the lack of reliable operating data, cropping calendars and field watering methods. The difficulties of making changes in large long-established systems like the Rice Canal are recognised but recommendations are made for some significant improvements, mainly in relation to the operation of the main system, which do not require a drastic dislocation of existing procedures. Similar measures may be applicable on other similar systems.

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“…Furthermore, between 40 and 46 % of all irrigated cropland in Asia, or 64-83 % in South East Asia, is dedicated to rice production (GRiSP 2013). A prominent feature of rice production landscapes is the use of earthen bunds (or levees) to maintain standing water (Goodell 1984). Vegetation that develops on these dry bunds is habitat for a diversity of natural enemies that protect rice crops from pests (Way and Javier 2001; Gurr et al 2011).…”

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Ecological engineering with high diversity vegetation patches enhances bird activity and ecosystem services in Philippine rice fields

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This study examines the potential for ecological engineering to enhance the beneficial ecosystem services provided by birds in tropical rice fields. Bird activities were monitored at six sites in the Philippines with high-diversity vegetation patches (HDVPs) established as an ecological engineering approach to restore ecosystem services. Adjacent plots of conventional rice were monitored as controls. Predatory birds (shrikes, Lanius spp., grassbirds, Megalurus palustris, and kingfishers, Halcyon spp.) were more active in the ecological engineering fields where they foraged for arthropods and snails among the rice plants. Pied trillers, Lalage nigra, and yellow vented bulbuls, Pycnonotus goiavier, foraged more in the HDVPs than in rice. These birds mainly responded to the availability of bamboo for perching in the HDVPs, although patch vegetation beneath the bamboo was also used for perching by some species. Aerial hunters such as swallows, Hirundo spp., avoided HDVPs likely because the tall vegetation and bamboo stakes represented an obstacle for their flight. Small changes in the design of HDVPs could avoid any negative effects on foraging by swallows and swifts. The results indicate that ecological engineering of rice paddies can have multiple benefits for farmers and the environment, including improved nutrition for farming communities, the creation of habitat for wildlife, and the enhancement of regulatory ecosystem services provided by insectivorous and snail-eating birds.

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Bugs, Bunds, Banks, and Bottlenecks: Organizational Contradictions in the New Rice Technology

Cited by 20 publications

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An actor-oriented approach for strengthening research and development capabilities in natural resource systems

An actor-oriented approach for strengthening research and development capabilities in natural resource systems

Water management on the Rice Canal system, Pakistan

Ecological engineering with high diversity vegetation patches enhances bird activity and ecosystem services in Philippine rice fields

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