Scaling practices within agricultural innovation platforms: Between pushing and pulling

Totin, Edmond; Mierlo, Barbara van; Klerkx, Laurens

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102764

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“…Using AWD is not possible in irrigation systems that do not have flow control structures (Delos Reyes, 2017). Moreover, the major problem of declining infrastructure quality, despite investments and rehabilitation efforts, is a significant uncertainty in terms of AWD's widespread use (Le Loan, 2020;Totin et al, 2020).…”

Section: Limits Of "Technology Push" To Scalingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disentangling Challenges to Scaling Alternate Wetting and Drying Technology for Rice Cultivation: Distilling Lessons From 20 Years of Experience in the Philippines

Enriquez

Yadav

Evangelista

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) is a low-cost innovation that enables farmers to adapt to increasingly water scarcity conditions (such as drought), increase overall farm production efficiency, and mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It is seen as a pathway for transforming agri-food systems into more resilient, productive, biologically diverse, and equitable forms, ensuring our commitments to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper uses scaling up and innovation uncertainty frameworks to review the success and challenges of AWD's 20-year scaling trajectory in the Philippines and explain the key factors that have influenced its outcomes. The framework adapted for this study is also used to examine the fitness between the scaling context and requirements, organizational mission, and corresponding capabilities. Findings show the innovation platform that vertically integrated key actors and locally adapted AWD has helped foster essential breakthroughs in creating an enabling environment that took AWD to national policy adoption in the Philippines. However, the dominant focus on technology transfer, product focus, and preference for controlled environments in the scaling practice has neglected many important contextual factors, allowing mismatches in enabling policy incentives, institutions, and scale to diminish the impacts of AWD in gravity-based systems. Our findings suggest that rethinking and re-envisioning the ways in which the impact can be scaled in irrigation rice systems using AWD is critical to sustaining food security and making the agriculture sector more resilient to climate change.

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Section: Limits Of "Technology Push" To Scalingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disentangling Challenges to Scaling Alternate Wetting and Drying Technology for Rice Cultivation: Distilling Lessons From 20 Years of Experience in the Philippines

Enriquez

Yadav

Evangelista

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…The problems encountered with of the IPs in Nepal were partly due to weak institutional support from DADO and NARC. Supportive institutional conditions can assist with integration with government interventions and access to schemes and programs, further assisting with scaling (Totin et al, 2020), but this needs to be balanced to ensure existing power relations are not further strengthened to serve their own interests, rather than for broader community benefits of minorities (Eidt et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Application of innovation platforms to catalyse adoption of conservation agriculture practices in South Asia

Brown

Anwar

Hossain

et al. 2021

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) is a package of practices that could improve the sustainability of smallholder farm productivity and profitability. However, existing extension systems are unable to facilitate widespread adoption to have the impact necessary to meet food security and livelihood requirements. This paper examines the utility of 'Innovation Platforms' (IPs) as a tool to catalyse adoption of CASI for smallholder farmers in South Asia and generate opportunities for rural micro-entrepreneurship in areas with high rates of poverty, small farm sizes and complex labour markets. We established 37 village-level and five District-level IPs across the Eastern Gangetic Plains of Nepal, Bangladesh, and India. IPs allowed widespread uptake of CASI with benefits to smallholder farmers, input and output suppliers, and enabled extension systems to be more efficient. There was variability across locations with different modes of IPs established, building on existing farmer or community youth groups, and enabling micro-entrepreneur business opportunities. IPs were effective in developing trust in communities, among stakeholders, empowering rural youth and women through direct engagement. Ensuring strong ownership was key. Further work is needed to provide opportunities for high-level policy support to assist IPs to have a wider impact in supporting large-scale adoption of CASI.

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“…As with the common 'carrot and stick' analogy (Leeuwis 2000), adoption of innovation occurs by means of 'push' and 'pull' (Wigboldus et al 2016;Geels 2019;Totin et al 2020). Push approaches involve the deliberate introduction of something new to a system, like a technology or model of practice.…”

Section: Push and Pull Approaches To Introducing Innovationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A theory of scaling for community-based fisheries management

Steenbergen

Song

Andrew

2021

Ambio

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Community-based approaches to fisheries management has emerged as a mainstream strategy to govern dispersed, diverse and dynamic small scale fisheries. However, amplifying local community led sustainability outcomes remains an enduring challenge. We seek to fill a theoretical gap in the conceptualization of ‘scaling up community-based fisheries management’. We draw on literature of agriculture innovations to provide a framework that takes into account process-driven and structural change occurring across multiple levels of governance, as well as different phases of scaling. We hypothesize that successful scaling requires engagement with all aspects of a governing regime, coalescing a range of actors, and therefore, is an enterprise that is larger than its parts. To demonstrate where the framework offers value, we illustrate the development of community-based fisheries management in Vanuatu according to the framework’s main scaling dimensions.

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Scaling practices within agricultural innovation platforms: Between pushing and pulling

Cited by 40 publications

References 33 publications

Disentangling Challenges to Scaling Alternate Wetting and Drying Technology for Rice Cultivation: Distilling Lessons From 20 Years of Experience in the Philippines

Disentangling Challenges to Scaling Alternate Wetting and Drying Technology for Rice Cultivation: Distilling Lessons From 20 Years of Experience in the Philippines

Application of innovation platforms to catalyse adoption of conservation agriculture practices in South Asia

A theory of scaling for community-based fisheries management

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