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This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.Reflections on the potential of virtual citizen science platforms to address collective action challenges: Lessons and implications for future research
This article presents some cross-cutting insights and reflections regarding the nature of the challenges identified by the diagnostic studies, and on the relevance and significance of Ostrom’s framework and analysis. It also reflects on the plausibility of our original ideas and assumptions by assessing what the various studies tell us about the significance and potential of key components of an EVOCA-type intervention: i.e. environmental monitoring, ICT, connective action, citizen science and responsible design. At the same time, we draw lessons for follow-up research and action in our research program and beyond by ide...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 31, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Citizen science for development: Potential role of mobile phones in information sharing on ticks and tick-borne diseases in Laikipia, Kenya
This study in Laikipia, a semi-arid savanna area of Kenya, is designed to (i) identify issues that complicate effective TTBD control, (ii) explore whether and how local people use mobile phones to address problems, including TTBDs, and (iii) reflect on what citizen science can contribute to the development of mobile phone-based platforms for TTBDs. The study, conducted between November 2016 and August 2017, adopted a mixed-methods approach comprising 21 interviews, field observations, document reviews, and a workshop. Results suggest that the TTBD problem is compounded by a combination of local issues. Insecurity, human–...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 30, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
A citizen science approach for malaria mosquito surveillance and control in rwanda
Publication date: Available online 18 August 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Marilyn Milumbu Murindahabi, Domina Asingizwe, P. Marijn Poortvliet, Arnold J.H. van Vliet, Emmanuel Hakizimana, Leon Mutesa, Willem Takken, Constantianus J.M. KoenraadtAbstractDespite the implementation of a number of interventions aimed at controlling malaria, Rwanda is experiencing a countrywide resurgence of simple malaria cases over the past five years. To support malaria control, mosquito surveillance activities, such as systematic reporting of the distribution, the diversity and the infectivity rate of malar...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 19, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
A vertically linked dynamic partial equilibrium model to analyze market shocks caused by HPAI control in the Dutch egg production chain
Publication date: Available online 16 August 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): N. Longworth, R.A. Jongeneel, H.W. SaatkampAbstractTo analyze the market effects of HPAI control in the Dutch layer sector an integrated modelling approach was developed to simulate these effects. This approach included (1) an extensive epidemiological simulation, (2) farm level costs calculation and conversion, and (3) partial equilibrium (PE) modelling of the Dutch layer sector. Model structure and behavioural equations of the latter are described. The basis for the analysis of model behaviour were simulated HPAI...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 16, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Addressing socio-ecological development challenges in the digital age: Exploring the potential of Environmental Virtual Observatories for Connective Action (EVOCA)
Publication date: Available online 2 August 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): K.J. Cieslik, C. Leeuwis, A.R.P.J. Dewulf, R. Lie, S.E. Werners, M. van Wessel, P. Feindt, P.C. StruikAbstractClimate change, (a) biotic stresses and environmental degradation are adversely affecting the sustenance of farming communities in Africa. Addressing such challenges requires effective collective action and coordination among stakeholders, which often prove difficult to achieve. Timely and context-specific information on relevant environmental dynamics holds considerable promise to overcome these problems.Th...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 2, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Governance arrangements and adaptive decision-making in rice farming systems in Northern Ghana
Publication date: Available online 1 August 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Andy Bonaventure Nyamekye, Art Dewulf, Erik Van Slobbe, Katrien Termeer, Cristina PintoAbstractClimate variability has consequences on water availability in rice farming systems. In Ghana, rice farmers in the Northern Savannah are amongst the most vulnerable to long periods of drought and erratic rainfall conditions. Within the Kumbungu district, farmers engaged in both rain-fed and irrigated rice farming are no exception. Coping with uncertain water availability conditions requires adaptive decision-making for sust...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - August 1, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Preface
Publication date: Available online 14 July 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Paul C. Struik, Katarzyna J. Cieslik, Cees Leeuwis, Art R.P.J. Dewulf (Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences)
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 15, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Governance arrangements and adaptive decision-making in rice farming systems in Northern Ghana
Publication date: Available online 14 July 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Andy Bonaventure Nyamekye, Art Dewulf, Erik Van Slobbe, Katrien Termeer, Cristina PintoAbstractClimate variability has consequences on water availability in rice farming systems. In Ghana, rice farmers in the Northern Savannah are amongst the most vulnerable to long periods of drought and erratic rainfall conditions. Within the Kumbungu district, farmers engaged in both rain-fed and irrigated rice farming are no exception. Coping with uncertain water availability conditions requires adaptive decision-making for susta...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 15, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Digital platforms for smallholder credit access: The mediation of trust for cooperation in maize value chain financing
Publication date: Available online 12 July 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesAuthor(s): Christopher Agyekumhene, Jasper R. de Vries, Annemarie van Paassen, Philip Macnaghten, Marc Schut, Arnold BregtAbstractMaize production is of critical importance to smallholder farmers in Ghana. Various factors limit the productivity of smallholder maize farming systems undergirded by the lack of capital for critical investments both at the farm and at national policy levels. Using a value chain approach, this diagnostic study explains how a complex configuration of actor interaction within an institutionally and agr...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 13, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Supporting local institutions for inclusive green growth: Developing an Evidence Gap Map
Publication date: March 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, Volume 84Author(s): Ezra Berkhout, Jetske Bouma, Nikolaos Terzidis, Maarten VoorsAbstractWe conduct a structured search of the academic literature that assesses the impact of development interventions that aim to build and strengthen local-level institutions to facilitate Inclusive Green Growth. Inclusive Green Growth extends the standard growth perspective to include welfare enhancements both the poor (‘inclusive’) and for future (‘green’) generations. We restrict our search to studies in the domain of agriculture and poverty alleviati...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 11, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
‘Producing’ institutions of climate change adaptation and food security in north eastern Ethiopia
Publication date: March 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, Volume 84Author(s): Million GebreyesAbstractThe paper presents institutional diagnostics, which is sensitive to dynamic social and political processes ‘producing’ institutions underlying practices in resource management, climate change adaptation, and food security. The paper is based on a qualitative case study on watershed development interventions conducted in two villages in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. The research showed that resource management, adaptation, and food security institutions in Ethiopia are a result of struggles between cont...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 11, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
How to diagnose institutional conditions conducive to inter-sectoral food security policies? The example of Burkina Faso
Publication date: March 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, Volume 84Author(s): Arlène Alpha, Eve FouilleuxAbstractThe multidimensional nature of food security often leads experts to recommend mobilising all public intervention sectors to ensure that food security policies are inter-sectoral, and not the sole responsibility of a single sector. However, in African contexts such as in Burkina Faso, food security policies are in most cases far from being inter-sectoral. They are instead focused on agricultural production. It is therefore critical to understand why food security policies are what they are,...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 11, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Diagnosing integrated food security strategies
Publication date: March 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, Volume 84Author(s): Jeroen J.L. CandelAbstractThe global food price crises of 2007–8 and 2010 and subsequent policy debates have led to increased recognition that the drivers of food insecurity and associated policies transcend the boundaries of traditional governmental sectors and jurisdictions. Building on this insight, many governments of countries facing food insecurity have developed, or are in the progress of developing, integrated food security strategies. However, in spite of their recent popularity, to date little is known about the ...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 11, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Multi-scale governance in agriculture systems: Interplay between national and local institutions around the production dimension of food security in Mali
This study looks at three institutional arrangements in the agriculture and food security sector in the district of Koutiala, Mali to analyse the institutional variety across scale and the underlying institutional logics. On one side, the Cooperative Law as well as the Seed Law both designed at national level to enable famers’ access to agriculture services and improved seeds have yielded mixed results with regard to anticipated outcomes. The cooperative law is believed to degrade the social cohesion and the mutual support on which vulnerable farmers rely when facing climatic and non-climatic risks whereas the new seed s...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 11, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
A diagnostic framework for food system governance arrangements: The case of South Africa
Publication date: March 2018Source: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, Volume 84Author(s): Catrien J.A.M. Termeer, Scott Drimie, John Ingram, Laura Pereira, Mark J. WhittinghamAbstractAlthough policymakers and scientists are increasingly embracing the food system perspective, it has been poorly reflected in institutional terms. We aim to fill this gap by addressing the question as to what forms of governance are most appropriate to govern food systems in a more holistic way. The article presents a diagnostic framework consisting of five principles: 1) system-based problem framing to deal with interlinked issues, d...
Source: NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - July 11, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
