scholarly journals Social-institutional problem dimensions of late blight and bacterial wilt of potato in Ethiopia : The contribution of social learning and communicative interventions to collective action

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Damtew Assefa
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Late Blight ◽  
Bacterial Wilt

scholarly journals Governing a Collective Bad: Social Learning in the Management of Crop Diseases

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Damtew ◽  
Barbara van Mierlo ◽  
Rico Lie ◽  
Paul Struik ◽  
Cees Leeuwis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Late Blight ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Action Problems ◽  
Crop Disease ◽  
Late Blight Management

AbstractThere has been strong research interest in designing and testing learning approaches for enhancing and sustaining the capacity of communities to manage collective action problems. Broadening the perspective from well-known social learning approaches in natural resource management, this study explores how social learning as a communicative process influences collective action in contagious crop disease management. A series of facilitated discussion and reflection sessions about late blight management created the social learning space for potato farmers in Ethiopia. Communicative utterances of participants in the sessions served as the units of analysis. The study demonstrates how and to what extent social learning, in the form of aligned new knowledge, relations and actions occurred and formed the basis for collective action in the management of late blight.

scholarly journals Analysis of a Monitoring System for Bacterial Wilt Management by Seed Potato Cooperatives in Ethiopia: Challenges and Future Directions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3580
Author(s):  
Shiferaw Tafesse ◽  
Rico Lie ◽  
Barbara van Mierlo ◽  
Paul C. Struik ◽  
Berga Lemaga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Seed Potato ◽  
Bacterial Wilt ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Complex Disease ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Plant Diseases ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Monitoring Systems

Collective action is required to deal with various complex agricultural problems such as invasive weeds and plant diseases that pose a collective risk to farmers. Monitoring systems could help to stimulate collective action and avoid free-riding. The paper develops a novel framework consisting of essential elements of a monitoring system for managing a complex disease like bacterial wilt in potato crops. The framework is used to explore how seed potato cooperatives in Ethiopia operationalised the essential elements of a monitoring system and identifies which challenges remain to be overcome. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, reflective workshops, participant observation, and document analysis. We found that the cooperatives had organised a self-monitoring system to monitor disease occurrence and the disease management practices of their members. Monitoring committees were in charge of the data collection and enforcement of sanctions on farmers who did not adhere to the cooperatives’ bylaws. The main challenges included the dependency on visual observation, which does not disclose latent infections, limited financial incentives for the monitoring committee members, lack of trust, weak peer monitoring, and the social and ecological interdependency between producers of ware and seed potatoes. Suggestions are provided to strengthen the monitoring systems of farmers’ seed potato cooperatives in Ethiopia. In addition, we discuss the broader value of our novel framework for describing and analysing monitoring systems for future research and intervention.

scholarly journals Christos J. Paraskevopoulos, Interpreting convergence in the European Union. Patterns of collective action, social learning and Europeanization

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Καλλιόπη Σπανού
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
The European Union

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scholarly journals Diagnosis of management of bacterial wilt and late blight in potato in Ethiopia: A systems thinking perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 86-87 ◽  
pp. 12-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Damtew ◽  
Shiferaw Tafesse ◽  
R. Lie ◽  
B. van Mierlo ◽  
B. Lemaga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Blight ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Bacterial Wilt

scholarly journals Organising Collective Action for Effective Environmental Management and Social Learning in Wales

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Mills ◽  
David Gibbon ◽  
Julie Ingram ◽  
Matt Reed ◽  
Christopher Short ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Collective Action

Collective action competence: an asset to campus sustainability

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte R. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Campus Sustainability ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Collective Competence ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
Free Choice Learning ◽  
Action Competence

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to operationalize theories of social learning and collective action for campus sustainability practitioners at higher education instititions (IHEs) to enhance their work, and to introduce the concept of collective action competence as a practical tool. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents a theoretical argument based on the concepts of learning and collective action for stronger consideration of social learning, action competence and voluntary collective action in campus sustainability initiatives. Findings Many important sustainability outcomes depend heavily on voluntary behaviors by groups of campus stakeholders, making voluntary collective action an important, although underused, tool for campus sustainability practitioners. The term “collective action competence” is introduced and defined as the capability of a group of people to direct their behavior toward a common goal based on a collective literacy, a collective competence, and a collective need or goal. Originality/value The term “collective action competence” is introduced as a novel unifying concept that articulates a critical capability needed for collective behavior change in social settings such as HEIs. Collective action competence is based on the theories of collective action and of social and free-choice learning and on the concepts of action competence and strategic competence.

A role-playing game as a tool to facilitate social learning and collective action towards Climate Smart Agriculture: Lessons learned from Apuí, Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 113-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Salvini ◽  
A. van Paassen ◽  
A. Ligtenberg ◽  
G.C. Carrero ◽  
A.K. Bregt
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Role Playing Game ◽  
Smart Agriculture
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