From Tsetse Control to Sustainable Rural Development – Progress and Opportunities for an Ethiopian Community

Baumgärtner, Johann; Tikubet, Getachew

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“…Among the linear technology transfer, advisory and facilitation extension models that have found wide application in agricultural system development. 16,47 Moreover, it proved to be a useful complement to adaptive management in eco-social system management 48 . A facilitator is a knowledgeable person who assists groups to reach their goals without assigning himself to a participating party.…”

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“…Recently, FAO’s (2012) 4 dimensional sustainability evaluation scheme has successfully been applied to an evolving periurban system. 53,54 Rather than using dimensions, the dynamics of another system was analysed from the perspectives of animal health, ecosystem service provision and socio-ecological sustainability 48 . The selection of variables and their measurement or estimation proved to be a challenging task.…”

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Implementation of a Socio-Ecological System Navigation Approach to Human Development in Sub-Saharan African Communities

Gilioli

Caroli

Tikubet

et al. 2014

Journal of Public Health Research

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This paper presents a framework for the development of socio-ecological systems towards enhanced sustainability. Emphasis is given to the dynamic properties of complex, adaptive social-ecological systems, their structure and to the fundamental role of agriculture. The tangible components that meet the needs of specific projects executed in Kenya and Ethiopia encompass project objectives, innovation, facilitation, continuous recording and analyses of monitoring data, that allow adaptive management and system navigation.Two case studies deal with system navigation through the mitigation of key constraints; they aim to improve human health thanks to anopheline malaria vectors control in Nyabondo (Kenya), and to improve cattle health through tsetse control and antitrypanosomal drug administration to cattle in Luke (Ethiopia). The second case deals with a socio-ecological navigation system to enhance sustainability, establishing a periurban diversified enterprise in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and developing a rural sustainable social-ecological system in Luke (Ethiopia).The project procedures are briefly described here and their outcomes are analysed in relation to the stated objectives. The methodology for human and cattle disease vector control were easier to implement than the navigation of social-ecological systems towards sustainability enhancement. The achievements considerably differed between key constraints removal and sustainability enhancement projects. Some recommendations are made to rationalise human and cattle health improvement efforts and to smoothen the road towards enhanced sustainability: i) technology system implementation should be carried out through an innovation system; ii) transparent monitoring information should be continuously acquired and evaluated for assessing the state of the system in relation to stated objectives for (a) improving the insight into the systems behaviour and (b) rationalizing decision support; iii) the different views of all stakeholders should be reconciled in a pragmatic approach to social-ecological system management.Significance for public healthRecently, there is a growing interest in studying the link between human, animal and environmental health. The connection between these different dimensions is particularly important for developing countries in which people face the challenge of escaping vicious cycle of high diseases prevalence, food insecurity driven by absolute poverty and population growth, and natural capital as a poverty trap. The design and implementation of such efforts, aiming at human health improvement and poverty alleviation, should be framed into adaptive social-ecological system management perspectives. In this paper, we present few case studies dealing with human health improvement through anopheline malaria vectors control in Kenya, cattle health improvement through tsetse vectored nagana control, antitrypanosomal drug administration to cattle in Ethiopia and with the development of rural sustainable communities in Ethiopia. Some recommendations...

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Section: Tangible Framework Componentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Implementation of a Socio-Ecological System Navigation Approach to Human Development in Sub-Saharan African Communities

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Caroli

Tikubet

et al. 2014

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“…In the economic dimension (Figure 1(b)), investments in material, the opening of a shop for marketing farm products and increased production are at the basis of the initial progress. The progress is attributed to the preparedness of the community, the application of a facilitation extension model and the availability of a nearby technology system training, demonstration and research facility (Baumgärtner and Getachew 2012). However, the initial progress was not seen as sufficient to securing the livelihoods and could not be sustained.…”

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Assessment of social–ecological transitions in a peri-urban Ethiopian farming community

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Tikubet

Herren

et al. 2014

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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In a peri-urban poverty-stricken community in the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15 years of development efforts were undertaken by establishing an enterprise, which initially consisted of a horticultural farm and finally was composed of a multifunctional farm and a restaurant with a shop. The enterprise collaborated with BioEconomy Africa, which was charged with administrative, monitoring and facilitation tasks, and provided a training, demonstration and research facility. In the innovation process, the enterprise selected technologies and implemented them within the context of local economic and market conditions. The project benefitted from a flexible allocation of modest funds. This paper assesses the sustainability of the enterprise and the community on the basis of social–ecological system transformability and resilience. The scheme of the Food and Agriculture Organization is used to evaluate the transformability, while resilience is evaluated through self-organization capacity, disturbance absorption capacity, and learning and adaptability. The project period was divided into five Macro-phases. The transformability assessment of the enterprise revealed nonlinear and asynchronous dynamics of environmental sustainability, economic resilience, social well-being and governance that after reaching a minimum attained a maximum at the end of the period under observation. The resilience assessments showed that the self-organization capacity, the disturbance absorption capacity, and learning and adaptability slowly changed to reach a satisfactory level at the end of the observation period. The changes in transformability and resilience profoundly affected the livelihood of the community. The paper demonstrates the important role of agricultural in the development of poverty-stricken peri-urban communities and indicates that innovation processes and the efficiency of facilitation extension model implementation can be enhanced by applying adaptive project execution procedures. It can be concluded that the continuous monitoring and assessments of transformability and resilience are a prerequisite for efficiently moving the socio-ecological system on a smooth road towards a socially acceptable standard of living

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“…Importantly, in agricultural systems, the uncertainty arising from human interventions is often higher than uncertainty derived from nature [31]. Distracted by instrumentalism, agronomists may also fail to see the limitations of technology-centered approaches that are a barrier for addressing new challenges, such as climate change, food security or emerging diseases with scientific methods [32,33], being also a motivation to neglect the dynamics of agricultural development and to strive for idealized states, such as organic and integrated systems. The limitations of logical positivism and the disadvantages of instrumentalism are further aggravated by decisions and actions based on a utilitarian value system, disregarding deontological and virtue ethics [32].…”

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“…Distracted by instrumentalism, agronomists may also fail to see the limitations of technology-centered approaches that are a barrier for addressing new challenges, such as climate change, food security or emerging diseases with scientific methods [32,33], being also a motivation to neglect the dynamics of agricultural development and to strive for idealized states, such as organic and integrated systems. The limitations of logical positivism and the disadvantages of instrumentalism are further aggravated by decisions and actions based on a utilitarian value system, disregarding deontological and virtue ethics [32]. Additionally, multiple causes may underlie the dynamics of agriculture related problems, which may require diverse and context-specific solutions, i.e., panaceas do not exist [34].…”

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Rethinking Study and Management of Agricultural Systems for Policy Design

2013

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There is a concern that agriculture will no longer be able to meet, on a global scale, the growing demand for food. Facing such a challenge requires new patterns of thinking in the context of complexity and sustainability sciences. This paper, focused on the social dimension of the study and management of agricultural systems, suggests that rethinking the study of agricultural systems entails analyzing them as complex socio-ecological systems, as well as considering the differing thinking patterns of diverse stakeholders. The intersubjective nature of knowledge, as studied by different philosophical schools, needs to be better integrated into the study and management of agricultural systems than it is done so far, forcing us to accept that there are no simplistic solutions, and to seek a better understanding of the social dimension of agriculture. Different agriculture related problems require different policy and institutional approaches. Finally, the intersubjective nature of knowledge asks for the visualization of different framings and the power relations taking place in the decision-making process. Rethinking management of agricultural systems implies that policy making should be shaped by different principles: learning, flexibility, adaptation, scale-matching, participation, diversity OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2013, 5 3859 enhancement and precaution hold the promise to significantly improve current standard management procedures.

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From Tsetse Control to Sustainable Rural Development – Progress and Opportunities for an Ethiopian Community

Cited by 5 publications

References 50 publications

Implementation of a Socio-Ecological System Navigation Approach to Human Development in Sub-Saharan African Communities

Implementation of a Socio-Ecological System Navigation Approach to Human Development in Sub-Saharan African Communities

Assessment of social–ecological transitions in a peri-urban Ethiopian farming community

Rethinking Study and Management of Agricultural Systems for Policy Design

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