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Identifying leverage points to transition dysfunctional irrigation schemes towards complex adaptive systems

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11569/
https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1747409
doi:10.1080/07900627.2020.1747409
 
Title Identifying leverage points to transition dysfunctional irrigation schemes towards complex adaptive systems
 
Creator Van Rooyen, A F
Moyo, M
Bjornlund, H
Dube, T
Parry, K
Stirzaker, R
 
Subject Semi-Arid Tropics
Irrigation
Sub-Saharan Africa
Zimbabwe
 
Description This article explores the value of Ostrom’s socio-ecological systems
framework and Meadows’s leverage point hierarchy, as structured diagnostics, to define systemic problems and avoid approaches based on linear thinking. These frameworks were applied as an ex post analysis of an irrigation scheme in Zimbabwe, drawing on the scheme’s baseline condition and the intervention outcomes. Strong leverage points, particularly those driving feedback mechanisms
and institutional design, interacted with other intervention points, initiating systemic change. This analysis suggests that dysfunctional schemes can be transitioned towards complex adaptive systems by
using agricultural innovation platforms to identify systemic challenges and intervention points.
 
Publisher Routledge
 
Date 2020-05
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11569/1/07900627.2020_B.pdf
Van Rooyen, A F and Moyo, M and Bjornlund, H and Dube, T and Parry, K and Stirzaker, R (2020) Identifying leverage points to transition dysfunctional irrigation schemes towards complex adaptive systems. International Journal of Water Resources Development (TSI). pp. 1-28. ISSN 0790-0627