Institutional and technological innovation: Understanding agricultural adaptation to climate change in Nepal

Chhetri, Netra; Chaudhary, Pashupati; Tiwari, Puspa Raj; Yadaw, Ram Baran

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.10.006

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“…Small farmers use several techniques to reduce climatedriven crop failure such as use of drought-tolerant local varieties, polyculture, agroforestry, water harvesting and conserving soil (Browder 1989;Altieri and Nicholls 2008;Chhetri et al 2012). Indigenous peasnats use various natural indicators to forecast the weather patterns such as changes in the behaviour of local flora and fauna (KalandaJoshua et al 2011;Nkomwa et al 2014).…”

Section: Integrated Crop-animal Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sweet potato is a traditional drought-tolerant and potential food security crop in South Africa (Motsa et al 2015). In Ethiopia, farmers harvest rainwater through traditional water harvesting pits locally known as zai pits (Chhetri et al 2012). Farmers of Zimbabwe acclimatize in drought conditions through switching to more drought-tolerant crop varieties (Matarira et al 1996;Chhetri et al 2012).…”

Section: Integrated Crop-animal Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Ethiopia, farmers harvest rainwater through traditional water harvesting pits locally known as zai pits (Chhetri et al 2012). Farmers of Zimbabwe acclimatize in drought conditions through switching to more drought-tolerant crop varieties (Matarira et al 1996;Chhetri et al 2012). Besides their medicinal, commercial and cultural values, traditional vegetables are also important for sustainable food production, climate change adaptation and environmental sustainability with minimum external input.…”

Section: Integrated Crop-animal Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Singh

2017

Energ. Ecol. Environ.

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Sustainable food production is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century in the era of global environmental problems such as climate change, increasing population and natural resource degradation including soil degradation and biodiversity loss. Climate change is among the greatest threats to agricultural systems. Green Revolution though multiplied agricultural production several folds but at the huge environmental cost including climate change. It jeopardized the ecological integrity of agroecosystems by intensive use of fossil fuels, natural resources, agrochemicals and machinery. Moreover, it threatened the age-old traditional agricultural practices. Agriculture is one of the largest sectors that sustain livelihood to maximum number of people and contribute to climate change. Therefore, a climate-smart approach to sustainable food production is the need of hour. Traditional agriculture is getting increased attention worldwide in context of sustainable food production in changing climate. The present article advocates traditional agriculture as a climate-smart approach for the sustainable food production and also deliberates the correlation between climate change and agriculture.

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Section: Integrated Crop-animal Farmingmentioning

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Section: Integrated Crop-animal Farmingmentioning

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2017

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“…Innes and Booher (2003), for instance, stress the importance of what they call "collaborative dialogue" for encouraging experimentation and building new networks of trust; Rodima-Taylor (2012) notes that decentralized organizational arrangements often improve community participation; Fraser et al (2005), emphasize the need for environmental management experts to collaborate with community members; Crona and Parker (2012) underscore how "bridging organizations… facilitate collaboration and knowledge coproduction" between actors; Bowles and Gintis (2002) highlight social capital as critical in contributing to community governance; Upton (2012) underlines the influence of community partnerships with external supporters; and Chhetri et al (2012), affirm that connectivity and inclusion of plural knowledge systems are powerful drivers of institutional innovation. Other determining variables, too, have been found to be "critical to the organization, adaptability, and sustainability" of CPR governance, including the nature of the resource system itself, the characteristics of its users, and the political, economic and social settings they inhabit (Agrawal 2001(Agrawal , 1651.…”

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Turning conflict into collaboration in managing commons: A case of Rupa Lake Watershed, Nepal

Chaudhary¹,

Chhetri

Dorman

et al. 2015

Int J Commons

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A collaborative effort to manage watershed commons 745Abstract: A growing body of literature on the commons has provided fascinating and intricate insights on how some local institutions have successfully managed to avoid a seemingly inevitable "tragedy of the commons" once popularized by Garrett Hardin. Primarily benefitting from the recent studies on the commonpool resources conducted by Elinor Ostrom and colleagues, polycentric selforganization and autonomy, rather than the direct state or market control over the commons, are often recognized as key features of the long enduring commons. However, these commons are quite diverse and the outcomes are often multiple and complex, accentuating the needs to differentiate among multiple commons outcomes. Furthermore, relatively under-reported are the cases where the degradation of common-pool resources are actually halted, and even restored. This study examines both the turbulent history of fishery mismanagement in Rupa Lake, Nepal and its reversal built around the participation, engagement and inclusiveness in the governance of its watershed. We find that Rupa Lake's experience tells two stories. Reflecting Hardin's dire forecast, the Rupa Lake watershed verged on collapse as population grew and seemingly selfish behavior intensified under an open-access regime. But the users also found a way to rebound and reverse their course as they adopted a bottom-up approach to fishery management and established an innovative community institution, the 'Rupa Lake Rehabilitation and Fishery Cooperative', dedicated to the sustainable governance of the commons. This case highlights how one community at the threshold of 'tragedy' transformed itself by turning conflict into collaboration, which we hope contributes to the effort of better understanding multiple commons.Keywords: Biodiversity, collective action, governance, institutions, watersheds Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the people in Rupa cooperatives for sharing valuable information and time with us, and LI-BIRD that has been continuously making endeavour to strengthen the cooperatives' capacity through support from different funding partners. Netra Chhetri, Brian Dorman and Milan Shrestha were supported by the USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research for Adapting Livestock Systems to Climate Change at Colorado State University under sub-award 9650-30. The constructive comments from the reviewers have helped improve the quality of the manuscript and thus we are grateful to them.

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“…At the local level, adaptation interventions are not exclusively in response to climatic stimuli alone (Jodha et al 2012;Smit et al 2001;Smithers and Blay-Palmer 2001) as adaption is are driven by a range of different pressures acting together that are difficult to isolate (Chhetri 2012;Chhetri et al 2012). The intangible processes such as policies and governance, the promotion of innovation and experimentation, and the use of new opportunities and the institutional arrangements are equally important in understanding adaptive capacity of the farmers.…”

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Agricultural innovation and adaptation to climate change: empirical evidence from diverse agro-ecologies in South Asia

Bhatta¹,

Ojha

Aggarwal³

et al. 2015

Environ Dev Sustain

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While impacts of climate change on agricultural systems have been widely researched, there is still limited understanding of what agricultural practices evolves over time in response to both climatic and non-climatic drivers and how actors mobilize their resources, institutions and practices in South Asia.Through eight case studies and a survey of300 households in 15 locations in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, this paper generates empirical evidence on emerging agricultural interventions in contrasting socio-economic, geographical and agro-ecological contexts. The study shows that several farm practices emerge out in response to multiple drivers over time; some of them can be further adjusted to the challenge of climate change by planned adaptation programs. Most actors, however, have considered private risks in the short run. Although there has been some progress in streamlining climate change into strategic planning in different countries of South Asia, policy, research and extension systems lack adequate attention to wider resilience of the system. Based on this analysis, we recommend that adaptation policies should complement farmers' responses to climate change through informed research and extension systems and pro-poor government policies that improve adaptation and coordinate activities of different actors.

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Institutional and technological innovation: Understanding agricultural adaptation to climate change in Nepal

Cited by 148 publications

References 25 publications

Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Turning conflict into collaboration in managing commons: A case of Rupa Lake Watershed, Nepal

Agricultural innovation and adaptation to climate change: empirical evidence from diverse agro-ecologies in South Asia

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