Enhancing social-ecological resilience through social learning: A case study of communal pasture management in the Highlands of Ethiopia

Aregu, Lemlem; Darnhofer, I.

doi:10.5897/ajar2015.10318

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“…While the informal institution has adapted rules in the past (Aregu and Darnhofer 2015), it currently does not demonstrate its capacity to address emergent dynamics, which might indicate a limited adaptive capacity, which weakens the resilience of the social-ecological system.…”

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“…While most communal pastures in the highlands of Ethiopia are accessed freely throughout the year, Kuwalla uses a controlled grazing system. A historical analysis of the Kuwalla communal pasture over the last 40-years revealed that the community implemented a modified version of their traditionally controlled rotational grazing system in response to the negative impact of the open-access system they had between 1975 and 1990 (see Aregu and Darnhofer 2015). …”

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The impact of gender-blindness on social-ecological resilience: The case of a communal pasture in the highlands of Ethiopia

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Darnhofer

Tegegne³

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Ambio

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We studied how the failure to take into account gendered roles in the management of a communal pasture can affect the resilience of this social-ecological system. Data were collected using qualitative methods, including focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and participant observations from one community in the highlands of Ethiopia. The results show that women are excluded from the informal institution that defines the access and use rules which guide the management of the communal pasture. Consequently, women’s knowledge, preferences, and needs are not taken into account. This negatively affects the resilience of the communal pasture in two ways. Firstly, the exclusion of women’s knowledge leads to future adaptation options being overlooked. Secondly, as a result of the failure to address women’s needs, they start to question the legitimacy of the informal institution. The case study thus shows how excluding women, i.e., side-lining their knowledge and needs, weakens social learning and the adaptiveness of the management rules. Being blind to gender-related issues may thus undermine the resilience of a social-ecological system.

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The impact of gender-blindness on social-ecological resilience: The case of a communal pasture in the highlands of Ethiopia

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Darnhofer

Tegegne³

et al. 2016

Ambio

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The role of communal pasture as a source of cattle feed: A case in Lar Badi, Sumbawa

Shiddieqy¹,

Tiesnamurti²,

Widiawati³

et al. 2021

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Cattle farming plays a significant role in most economic and social societies in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. In this area, the majority of cattle are grazed extensively in open grassland. The study aimed to evaluate the role of communal pasture range as a source of cattle feed. The method was descriptive with field verification, took place in Lar Badi, Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara, which was one out of 59 pastures in Sumbawa. Data related to pasture conditions, beneficiary farmers, and institutional management were collected from different sources. Lar Badi has a total area 460 of ha, where Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health has a program to improve 100 ha of it with pasture grasses and legumes, such as Lamtoro tarramba and Brachiaria decumbens. The number of beneficiary farmers is 177 farmers from 10 farmer groups. The total number of cattle owned by the farmers is 2,941 heads. The combination of L. tarramba and B.decumbens has total production of 3,100 DM t 100 ha−1 yr−1, while the requirement of 2,941 heads or 1,736.99 animal unit (AU) of cattle was 5,205.15 DM t yr−1. The cattle need the addition of 2,105 DM t yr−1. The capacity of Lar Badi is 0,6 AU ha−1 yr−1. The study suggests increasing forage production capacity to sustain cattle feeding in Sumbawa.

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Effect of Climate Smart Agriculture Innovations on Climate Resilience among Smallholder Farmers: Empirical Evidence from the Choke Mountain Watershed of the Blue Nile Highlands of Ethiopia

Teklu

Simane

Bezabih³

2023

Sustainability

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Smallholder farmers’ capacities need to be strengthened to enable them to better withstand the upcoming impacts of climate change; these capacities not only include the responsive capacity, but also consider innovation, learning, and anticipation to be prepared for the projected impacts of a changing climate on the agriculture system. The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of climate smart agriculture (CSA) innovations on building climate resilience capacity in smallholder agriculture systems. A cross-sectional household survey was conducted among a multi-stage sample of 424 smallholder farmers selected from five agroecosystems of the Upper Blue Nile Highlands in Ethiopia. The study used an endogenous switching regression (ESR) model to examine the impact of CSA innovations on building climate resilience capacity among smallholder farmers. The true average adoption effects of climate resilience capacity under actual and counterfactual conditions showed that different CSA innovations have different effects on the climate resilience capacity of households. Except for SWC adopters, all CSA innovations significantly increased the climate resilience capacity of households. However, improved variety, crop residue management, and SWC have more profound effects on the non-adopters than adopters, =if non-adopters had adopted these CSA innovations. Strong absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities through strong disaster and early warning systems, climate-resilient infrastructure, a strong public agricultural extension system, a strong informal safety net, and social networks build a climate-resilient agriculture system among smallholder farmers. Thus, scaling up of CSA innovations may expand the benefit of CSA innovation on building the climate resilience capacities of households. Thus, strong risk management, disaster mitigation and early warning systems, adaptive strategies, information and training, informal safety nets, social networks, and infrastructure use may build the climate resilience capacity of smallholder farmers by facilitating the adoption of CSA innovation. Therefore, policies that strengthen good governance, social cohesion, disaster communication and early warning systems, input supply of drought-resistant varieties, climate smart extension service, and climate-resilient infrastructure are necessary.

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Enhancing social-ecological resilience through social learning: A case study of communal pasture management in the Highlands of Ethiopia

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The impact of gender-blindness on social-ecological resilience: The case of a communal pasture in the highlands of Ethiopia

The impact of gender-blindness on social-ecological resilience: The case of a communal pasture in the highlands of Ethiopia

The role of communal pasture as a source of cattle feed: A case in Lar Badi, Sumbawa

Effect of Climate Smart Agriculture Innovations on Climate Resilience among Smallholder Farmers: Empirical Evidence from the Choke Mountain Watershed of the Blue Nile Highlands of Ethiopia

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