TY  - JOUR
N2  - 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.
N1  - This research was part of the project Increasing Irrigation Water Productivity in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe through On-Farm Monitoring, Adaptive Management and Agricultural Innovation Platforms, funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (FSC/
2013/006) and supported in Zimbabwe by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE), supported by the CGIAR Trust Fund.
AV  - public
KW  - Small-scale irrigation
KW  -  Complex adaptive systems
KW  - 
Leverage points
KW  -  System diagnostics
KW  -  Zimbabwe
A1  - Van Rooyen, A F
A1  - Moyo, M
A1  - Bjornlund, H
A1  - Dube, T
A1  - Parry, K
A1  - Stirzaker, R
TI  - Identifying leverage points to transition dysfunctional irrigation schemes towards complex adaptive systems
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1747409
JF  - International Journal of Water Resources Development (TSI)
SP  - 1
Y1  - 2020/05//
ID  - icrisat11569
EP  - 28
SN  - 0790-0627
PB  - Routledge
ER  -