Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach

In African small-scale agriculture, sustainable land and water management (SLWM) is key to improving food production while coping with climate change. However, the rate of SLWM adoption remains low, suggesting a gap between generalized SLWM advantages for rural development across the literature, and...

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Autores principales:	Luigi Piemontese, Rick Nelson. Kamugisha, Joy Margaret Biteete. Tukahirwa, Anna Tengberg, Simona Pedde, Fernando Jaramillo
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Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2021
Materias:	archetype analysis barriers to adoption sustainability science sustainable land and water management uganda Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:eda3929dd27f40e1a6e396789e41e5dd2021-11-15T16:40:20ZBarriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach1708-308710.5751/ES-12531-260306https://doaj.org/article/eda3929dd27f40e1a6e396789e41e5dd2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss3/art6/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087In African small-scale agriculture, sustainable land and water management (SLWM) is key to improving food production while coping with climate change. However, the rate of SLWM adoption remains low, suggesting a gap between generalized SLWM advantages for rural development across the literature, and the existence of context-dependent barriers to its effective implementation. Uganda is an example of this paradox: the SLWM adoption rate is low despite favorable ecological conditions for agriculture development and a large rural population. A systemic understanding of the barriers hindering the adoption of SLWM is therefore crucial to developing coherent policy interventions and enabling effective funding strategies. Here, we propose a cross-scale archetype approach to identify and link barriers to SLWM adoption in Uganda. We performed 80 interviews across the country to build cognitive archetypes, harvesting stakeholders' perceptions of different types of barriers. We complemented this bottom-up perspective with a spatial archetype analysis to contextualize these results across different social-ecological regions. We found poverty trap, overpopulation, risk aversion, remoteness, and post-conflict patriarchal systems as cognitive archetypes that synthesize the different dynamics of barriers to SLWM adoption in Uganda. Our results reveal both specific and cross-cutting barriers. Ineffective extension services emerges as a ubiquitous barrier, whereas gender inequality is a priority barrier for large supported farms and farms in drier lowlands in northern Uganda. The combination of cognitive and spatial archetypes proposed here can help to overcome ineffective "one-size-fits-all" solutions and support context-specific policy plans to scale up SLWM, rationing resources to support sustainable intensification of agriculture.Luigi PiemonteseRick Nelson. KamugishaJoy Margaret Biteete. TukahirwaAnna TengbergSimona PeddeFernando JaramilloResilience Alliancearticlearchetype analysisbarriers to adoptionsustainability sciencesustainable land and water managementugandaBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 26, Iss 3, p 6 (2021)
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topic	archetype analysis barriers to adoption sustainability science sustainable land and water management uganda Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	archetype analysis barriers to adoption sustainability science sustainable land and water management uganda Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 Luigi Piemontese Rick Nelson. Kamugisha Joy Margaret Biteete. Tukahirwa Anna Tengberg Simona Pedde Fernando Jaramillo Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach
description	In African small-scale agriculture, sustainable land and water management (SLWM) is key to improving food production while coping with climate change. However, the rate of SLWM adoption remains low, suggesting a gap between generalized SLWM advantages for rural development across the literature, and the existence of context-dependent barriers to its effective implementation. Uganda is an example of this paradox: the SLWM adoption rate is low despite favorable ecological conditions for agriculture development and a large rural population. A systemic understanding of the barriers hindering the adoption of SLWM is therefore crucial to developing coherent policy interventions and enabling effective funding strategies. Here, we propose a cross-scale archetype approach to identify and link barriers to SLWM adoption in Uganda. We performed 80 interviews across the country to build cognitive archetypes, harvesting stakeholders' perceptions of different types of barriers. We complemented this bottom-up perspective with a spatial archetype analysis to contextualize these results across different social-ecological regions. We found poverty trap, overpopulation, risk aversion, remoteness, and post-conflict patriarchal systems as cognitive archetypes that synthesize the different dynamics of barriers to SLWM adoption in Uganda. Our results reveal both specific and cross-cutting barriers. Ineffective extension services emerges as a ubiquitous barrier, whereas gender inequality is a priority barrier for large supported farms and farms in drier lowlands in northern Uganda. The combination of cognitive and spatial archetypes proposed here can help to overcome ineffective "one-size-fits-all" solutions and support context-specific policy plans to scale up SLWM, rationing resources to support sustainable intensification of agriculture.
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author	Luigi Piemontese Rick Nelson. Kamugisha Joy Margaret Biteete. Tukahirwa Anna Tengberg Simona Pedde Fernando Jaramillo
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title	Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach
title_short	Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach
title_full	Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach
title_fullStr	Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach
title_full_unstemmed	Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach
title_sort	barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach
publisher	Resilience Alliance
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/eda3929dd27f40e1a6e396789e41e5dd
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Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach

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