relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/10016/
title: Theory and application of Agricultural Innovation Platforms for improved irrigation scheme management in Southern Africa
creator: Van Rooyen, A F
creator: Ramshaw, P
creator: Moyo, M
creator: Stirzaker, R
creator: Bjornlund, H
subject: Innovation
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
subject: African Agriculture
subject: Southern Africa
description: Many small-scale irrigation systems are characterized by low yields and deteriorating infrastructure. Interventions often erroneously focus on increasing yields and rehabilitating infrastructure. Small-scale irrigation systems have many of the characteristics of complex socio-ecological systems, with many different actors and numerous interconnected subsystems. However, the limited interaction between the different subsystems and their agents prevents learning and the emergence of more beneficial outcomes. This article reports on using Agricultural Innovation Platforms to create an environment in which irrigation scheme actors can engage, experiment, learn and build adaptive capacity to increase market-related offtake and move out of poverty.
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2017
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/10016/1/2017-5-22_Theory%20and.pdf
identifier:   Van Rooyen, A F and Ramshaw, P and Moyo, M and Stirzaker, R and Bjornlund, H  (2017) Theory and application of Agricultural Innovation Platforms for improved irrigation scheme management in Southern Africa.  International Journal of Water Resources Development, 33 (5).  pp. 804-823.  ISSN 0790-0627     
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2017.1321530
relation: 10.1080/07900627.2017.1321530