Learning from the past to build the future governance of groundwater use in agriculture

Petit, Olivier; Dumont, Aurélien; Leyronas, Stéphanie; Ballin, Quentin; Bouarfa, Sami; Faysse, Nicolas; Kuper, Marcel; Molle, François; Alcazar, Charlotte; Durand, Emmanuel; Ghoudi, Ridha; Hubert, Aline; Visage, Selin Le; Messaoudi, Imane; Montginoul, Marielle; Ndao, Seyni; Ferroudji, A. Richard; Rinaudo, Jean‐Daniel; Trottier, Julie; Aubriot, Olivia; Elloumi, Mohamed; Boisson, Marc; Fofack-Garcia, Rhoda; Maurel, Frédéric; Rojat, Dominique; Romagny, Bruno; Salgues, Emmanuelle

doi:10.1080/02508060.2021.2006948

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“…The Transformations to Sustainable Groundwater Systems Project has supported shared learning across case studies to look at grassroots initiatives in groundwater governance, including insights from ethnography and hydrogeology (Zwarteveen et al 2021). Processes of learning and discussion about improving groundwater governance may not only consider regulations, financial incentives, and other options for changing institutions but also more fundamentally reshape ideas about sharing identity and relationship to an aquifer, landscape, or territory, and the values and futures that could or should be pursued (Petit et al 2021) In devising ways to cope with new challenges, people often draw on and modify their existing knowledge and practices. This kind of improvisation, trying out different modifications and reworkings of existing institutions, has been described and analyzed as institutional bricolage (Cleaver 2012), tinkering (Zwarteveen et al 2021), or community experimentation (Saidani et al 2023).…”

Section: Multiple Perspectives On Governing Groundwatermentioning

confidence: 99%

Combining and crafting institutional tools for groundwater governance

Bruns¹,

Meinzen-Dick²

2022

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in 1975, provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI's strategic research aims to foster a climate-resilient and sustainable food supply; promote healthy diets and nutrition for all; build inclusive and efficient markets, trade systems, and food industries; transform agricultural and rural economies; and strengthen institutions and governance. Gender is integrated in all the Institute's work. Partnerships, communications, capacity strengthening, and data and knowledge management are essential components to translate IFPRI's research from action to impact. The Institute's regional and country programs play a critical role in responding to demand for food policy research and in delivering holistic support for country-led development. IFPRI collaborates with partners around the world.

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Section: Multiple Perspectives On Governing Groundwatermentioning

confidence: 99%

Combining and crafting institutional tools for groundwater governance

Bruns¹,

Meinzen-Dick²

2022

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“…However, there have been concerns about groundwater governance approaches and their success in supporting the ever-increasing use of the resource (Molle & Closas, 2020). As such, the past decade has seen mobilisation for action towards strengthened groundwater governance systems (Petit et al, 2021).…”

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Polycentric Groundwater Governance: Insights from the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area

Mukuyu,

Nyambe,

Magombeyi

et al. 2024

Int J Commons

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This paper analyses groundwater governance within a transfrontier conservation landscape. Given the current heightened interest in groundwater development, it is imperative that more thought be given to how groundwater resources can best be managed in different contexts for multiple uses and users. Transfrontier conservation areas are areas of vast biological diversity whose functioning and ecosystem integrity depends on the availability of water to sustain ecosystems and subsequently derive economic benefit. Further, climate vulnerable rural communities depend on and form an important part of this landscape. The work highlighted in this paper is based on a study conducted in parts of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA), the largest TFCA in the world. Climate induced challenges such as droughts and general poor land use planning have resulted in threats to long term sustainability of freshwater ecosystems and increased incidences of human-wildlife conflicts over limited water resources. Effective groundwater governance can potentially provide pathways for alleviating these challenges. Building on the theoretical fundamentals of polycentric governance, this paper analyses the case of the KAZA TFCA in which multiple levels of governance exist. The paper discusses how to achieve coordination and accountability within a shared landscape to foster sustainable use and management of groundwater. Groundwater within a TFCA context has the potential to alleviate human-wildlife conflict over freshwater, support groundwater dependant ecosystems and sustain smallholder agriculture for the rural communities. Understanding this role of groundwater adds to the framing of freshwater governance and conservation efforts within a TFCA and the identification and development of platforms for the integrated management of groundwater. Bringing together freshwater and conservation institutions in a multi-country context towards integrated water resource management is an initial and novel attempt which forms the foundation for achieving optimal governance approaches in the commons.

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“…In the last decades, two perspectives have been adopted to address the control of groundwater overexploitation: State (regulatory, monitoring or economic) instruments to control abstraction, and participatory mechanisms involving stakeholders through different arrangements (Villholth et al, 2019;Petit et al, 2021). State action has focused on the implementation of a panoply of top-down strategies to control the number and extraction capacity of wells (Molle et al, 2018).…”

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Advancing Co-governance through Framing Processes: Insights from Action-Research in the Requena-Utiel Aquifer (Eastern Spain)

Ibor,

López-Pérez,

García-Mollá

et al. 2023

International Journal of the Commons

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In recent years, co-management has been highlighted in the scientific literature as fundamental strategy for groundwater governance. However, the development of such an institutional architecture is complex and presents important pitfalls and challenges. Based on participatory action research, in this article we analyse the recent experience of co-management in the Requena-Utiel aquifer (Spain). We used a cognitive framing approach, developed through interviews with local stakeholders, to analyse the conflicting visions on the aquifer management. Then we developed an interactive framing approach, through workshops, to achieve a shared understanding of aquifer co-management. This was done with the aim to facilitate a consensus building process among users, as a basis on which to support future self-governance measures. The research demonstrates the usefulness of these approaches to promote collective action and co-management in groundwater. It shows the key role that information and transparency play in gaining shared understanding and improving co-management; but also the difficulties of users in establishing agreements that question the current status quo on the aquifer.

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Learning from the past to build the future governance of groundwater use in agriculture

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Combining and crafting institutional tools for groundwater governance

Combining and crafting institutional tools for groundwater governance

Polycentric Groundwater Governance: Insights from the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area

Advancing Co-governance through Framing Processes: Insights from Action-Research in the Requena-Utiel Aquifer (Eastern Spain)

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