Scaling up agricultural interventions: Case studies of climate-smart agriculture

Westermann, Olaf; Förch, Wiebke; Thornton, Philip K.; Körner, Jana; Cramer, Laura; Campbell, Bruce M.

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2018.07.007

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“…It is therefore often prudent to consider strengthening the non-public institutions in a region if they are able to assume a determining role in the long term and reduce the risks of failure (Teshome et al, 2016). Westermann et al (2015) and Aggarwal et al (2018) consider that multistakeholder platforms and policy-making networks are key to effective upscaling.…”

Section: Institutional Capacity Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

The Livestock Sector in Colombia: Toward a Program to Facilitate Large-Scale Adoption of Mitigation and Adaptation Practices

Tapasco

LeCoq

Ruden

et al. 2019

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Livestock raising is an important sector of the Colombian economy, which will face serious challenges in the next decade, including adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. Colombia must change the model of livestock production in a very short time by freeing up areas of pasture for other uses and focusing intensified livestock production in suitable zones. Despite the urgency and the magnitude of the required changes, only isolated small-scale initiatives exist. Colombia therefore has the challenge to scale-up these initiatives 1 , but at present it has no program designed to achieve this objective. We started by analyzing the policies, actors, and existing initiatives in Colombia. We then sought to understand the potential for and the limitations to scaling-up promising initiatives to face the challenges of climate change in the livestock sector. We identified the key elements from previous initiatives and classified them into the conceptual spaces identified in the theory of scaling-up. These are the spaces in matters of: policy, fiscal and financial matters, institutional capacity, learning, partnerships, and technical matters, emphasizing the importance of the technical dimension. Finally, we propose some elements for the design of Colombia's national program of livestock raising.

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Section: Institutional Capacity Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

The Livestock Sector in Colombia: Toward a Program to Facilitate Large-Scale Adoption of Mitigation and Adaptation Practices

Tapasco

LeCoq

Ruden

et al. 2019

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…Instead, alternative approaches to achieving necessary transformation have been suggested. It has been argued that food production is a component of complex, adaptive socialecological systems (Walker et al, 2010;Reed et al, 2013;Foran et al, 2014), and therefore multiple technological and social interventions are required simultaneously at different scales to generate systemic change (Giller et al, 2009;Scherr et al, 2012;Food Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, 2013;Steenwerth et al, 2014;Westermann et al, 2018). In parallel, there has been a shift from dependence on the pipeline model to an "actor innovation" model, which deliberately aims to change social and power dynamics, and institutions and governance that are shaped by these relationships (Biggs, 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Feasible Is the Scaling-Out of Livelihood and Food System Adaptation in Asia-Pacific Islands?

Butler

Rochester

Skewes

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The sustainable development and food security of islands in the Asia-Pacific region is severely compromised by climate change, sea level rise and compounding socio-economic issues. To achieve a step-change in food production and climate adaptation, livelihoods must rapidly transform. Food security programs continue to apply the "pipeline" model of scaling-out technological innovations, but do not account for the social-ecological complexity of islands. We tested the feasibility of scaling-out adaptation strategies in two provinces in the region: Nusa Tenggara Barat in Indonesia, and West New Britain in Papua New Guinea. Guided by a sub-district typology of resource use, we trialled a participatory, systems-based livelihood adaptation pathways approach in sub-district case studies. The process aimed to mainstream social learning and future uncertainty into community development decision-making, yielding 'no regrets' adaptation strategies to transform livelihoods. We tested two assumptions: first, that because the contexts of all villages were homogenous, strategies were sufficiently similar to enable scaling-out across the provinces; second, that the sub-district typologies would assist scaling-out within each type. The results showed that the first assumption was untenable: there was very little similarity amongst villages' strategies; only sustainable fisheries management was scalable amongst coastal villages. The second was marginally tenable, because there were strong similarities amongst villages in an off-shore island type. When pooled into classes of adaptation strategy, most related to practice and behaviour change, and addressed systemic social issues; very few were technological. Our results suggest that scaling-out livelihood and food system innovations is not feasible due to the complex social-ecological contexts within islands, caused by steep climate gradients, natural resource and cultural diversity. We discuss the limitations of a resource use typology that aimed to mitigate this complexity and guide scaling-out. Instead we argue that appropriate social learning approaches akin to livelihood adaptation pathways must be mainstreamed into existing community development decision cycles, thereby Butler et al.Scaling-Out Livelihood Adaptation in Asia-Pacific Islands "scaling-up" and "scaling-deep" to tackle institutional, political and cultural barriers to transformation. We discuss the implications of our recommendations for government and donor support for food security programs in islands of the Asia-Pacific region, and future research priorities.

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“…Aside from the sensing process, smart farming [5] and similar agricultural approaches deal with: (i) the data analysis process, including data mining and visualization; (ii) the decision-making process, involving decision-support systems, modeling and planning tools; and (iii) the action process, which includes online applications, monitoring robots and automation technologies. The aggregation and analysis of large volumes of data within short time periods grants producers the ability to act forthwith, contributing to the prediction and prevention of crop damage, the frequency of which never ceases to decrease, potentially as a consequence of climate change [6,7]. Thus, intelligent agriculture and other cross-disciplinary approaches in agricultural production, such as the one found in [8], is not merely a passing trend in innovation, but an auspicious endeavor for supplying satisfactory and adequate levels of food production of high quality [9,10], for an increasingly growing global population.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless Sensor Network Synchronization for Precision Agriculture Applications

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The advent of Internet of Things has propelled the agricultural domain through the integration of sensory devices, capable of monitoring and wirelessly propagating information to producers; thus, they employ Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These WSNs allow real time monitoring, enabling intelligent decision-making to maximize yields and minimize cost. Designing and deploying a WSN is a challenging and multivariate task, dependent on the considered environment. For example, a need for network synchronization arises in such networks to correlate acquired measurements. This work focuses on the design and installation of a WSN that is capable of facilitating the sensing aspects of smart and precision agriculture applications. A system is designed and implemented to address specific design requirements that are brought about by the considered environment. A simple synchronization scheme is described to provide time-correlated measurements using the sink node’s clock as reference. The proposed system was installed on an olive grove to assess its effectiveness in providing a low-cost system, capable of acquiring synchronized measurements. The obtained results indicate the system’s overall effectiveness, revealing a small but expected difference in the acquired measurements’ time correlation, caused mostly by serial transmission delays, while yielding a plethora of relevant environmental conditions.

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Scaling up agricultural interventions: Case studies of climate-smart agriculture

Cited by 131 publications

References 34 publications

The Livestock Sector in Colombia: Toward a Program to Facilitate Large-Scale Adoption of Mitigation and Adaptation Practices

The Livestock Sector in Colombia: Toward a Program to Facilitate Large-Scale Adoption of Mitigation and Adaptation Practices

How Feasible Is the Scaling-Out of Livelihood and Food System Adaptation in Asia-Pacific Islands?

Wireless Sensor Network Synchronization for Precision Agriculture Applications

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