scholarly journals Capacity Development for Scaling Up Climate-Smart Agriculture Innovations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliot Mahlengule Zwane
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Development ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Smart Agriculture

Capacity Development for Scaling up Decentralized Energy Access Programmes

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Clemens ◽  
Kamal Rijal ◽  
Minoru Takada
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Development ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Energy Access ◽  
Decentralized Energy

Political will and public will for climate-smart agriculture in Senegal

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric D. Raile ◽  
Linda M. Young ◽  
Adama Sarr ◽  
Samba Mbaye ◽  
Amber N.W. Raile ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Country ◽  
Smart Agriculture

Purpose Agriculture must transform as climate change progresses. The international community has promoted climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as a set of solutions. Previous analyses of opportunities for scaling up CSA have not looked closely at building political and social support for policies, practices and programs. The purpose of this paper is to fill that gap in the case study country of Senegal. Design/methodology/approach The study applies the conceptual definitions, operationalizations and assessment targets from the political will and public will (PPW) approach to social change. Semi-structured interviews and documents constitute the sources of data and information. Findings The analysis identifies opportunities to generate political will for supplying an enabling environment for the widespread adoption of CSA. On the public will side, the analysis identifies opportunities to generate and channel demand for CSA. Research limitations/implications Researchers investigated some definitional components more completely than others due to resource and access constraints. Further, the context specificity of the components limits generalizability of certain findings. Social implications Social structures may need to change for successful adoption of certain CSA innovations, but improved agricultural outcomes are likely to result. Originality/value This examination of crucial elements for scaling up CSA efforts constitutes the most extensive application of the PPW approach to date, thus providing an example of this generalizable method.

scholarly journals Scaling up nurse education: An evaluation of a national PhD capacity development programme in South Africa, in the context of the global shortage of nursing graduates

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 647-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Comiskey ◽  
Anne Matthews ◽  
Charmaine Williamson ◽  
Judith Bruce ◽  
Mavis Mulaudzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Nurse Education ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Nursing Graduates

scholarly journals What best practices of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) for vegetable crops production in West Africa?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
KPADONOU G. ESAIE
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Organic Fertilizers ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Vegetable Crops ◽  
Chemical Application ◽  
Market Gardening ◽  
Smart Agriculture

The requirements for a quality and sufficient market gardening production are far from being achieved. This problem has been exacerbated by climate change, while the demand for vegetables increases in proportion to the population growth and to the high rate of urbanization. Alternative practices are proposed by Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) that basically promotes a trade-off between improvement of crop productivity, climate change adaptation and mitigation. How could this approach contribute to positively impact the market gardening sub sector and vegetable production in particular? Therefore, this paper in a first phase identified and described potential practices from literature and in a second one analysed their performances. The first phase had three steps: (1) the review of the fundamentals of the CSA concept in regard to market gardening production, (2) identification and description of potential practices and technologies based on literature and (3) a qualitative comparative analysis of their potentialities vis-a-vis CSA criteria to identify recommendable practices. The second phase analysed quantitatively the performances of the recommendable practices using the Evidence of Resilient Agriculture (ERA), a meta-dataset online platform with Amaranthus, Lettuce/Cabbage and Tomato as test crops. This provides a comprehensive overview of the adequacy of these practices with CSA requirements. Thus, laying the foundation for scaling up the CSA concept in vegetable crops production with the reorientation and improvement of good practices against climate change. Practices and technologies recommended for a CSA, are those related to the use of improved crops varieties, ground-water mobilisation through on-farm water pits creation where water table is shallow and surface water unavailable, drip irrigation and use of mulching, optimal organic fertilizers application and rationale chemical application (like microdosing), and finally the use of processing and conservation techniques that demand less energy and promote renewable energy like solar driers. The results from the ERA analysis revealed an average change of 69.5% for Amaranthus, 53.3% for Lettuce/Cabbage and 36.4% for Tomato by applying those practices together. Thus, the combination of these practices and technologies in one package as CSA technologies could be favourable for CSA scaling up in vegetable crops production system in West-Africa.

Scaling up agricultural interventions: Case studies of climate-smart agriculture

2018 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 283-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaf Westermann ◽  
Wiebke Förch ◽  
Philip Thornton ◽  
Jana Körner ◽  
Laura Cramer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Smart Agriculture

scholarly journals Scaling up climate-smart agriculture: lessons learned from South Asia and pathways for success

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neufeldt H ◽  
◽  
Negra C ◽  
Hancock J ◽  
Foster K ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Smart Agriculture
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