relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/11569/
title: Identifying leverage points to transition dysfunctional irrigation schemes towards complex adaptive systems
creator: Van Rooyen, A F
creator: Moyo, M
creator: Bjornlund, H
creator: Dube, T
creator: Parry, K
creator: Stirzaker, R
subject: Semi-Arid Tropics
subject: Irrigation
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa
subject: 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
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/11569/1/07900627.2020_B.pdf
identifier:   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     
relation: https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1747409
relation: doi:10.1080/07900627.2020.1747409