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DAS: Berufliche Bildung zur klimaangepassten Grünflächenpflege
Quelle ↗Förderer: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Zeitraum: 11/2017 - 12/2019 Projektleitung: Dr. rer. agr. Thomas Aenis, Prof. Dr. Klaus Müller
DAS: Grüne Klimaoasen: Integrierte Stadtgrünentwicklung in Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf
Quelle ↗Förderer: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Zeitraum: 12/2017 - 12/2020 Projektleitung: Dr. rer. agr. Thomas Aenis, Prof. Dr. Klaus Müller
Open Access Publikation des Artikels: Communication processes in intercultural transdisciplinary research: framework from a group perspective
Quelle ↗Förderer: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt Zeitraum: 05/2019 - 11/2019 Projektleitung: Dr. rer. agr. Thomas Aenis
Open Access Publikation des Artikels: Stakeholder analysis in support of sustainable land management: Experiences from southwest China
Quelle ↗Förderer: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt Zeitraum: 11/2019 - 04/2020 Projektleitung: Dr. rer. agr. Thomas Aenis
SOS_Uplands: Sichere Handlungsspielräume im Südostasiatischen Hochland. Teilprojekt „Transdisziplinäre Prozesse“
Quelle ↗Förderer: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt Zeitraum: 06/2017 - 05/2018 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Klaus Müller, Dr. rer. agr. Thomas Aenis
Steigerung der Widerstandsfähigkeit gegen den Klimawandel durch adaptive Politik zur Förderung der Agrarökologie – eine vergleichende Perspektive am Agrar-Wasser-Nexus in Indien und Deutschland
Quelle ↗Förderer: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung Zeitraum: 06/2022 - 04/2023 Projektleitung: Dr. rer. agr. Susanne Neubert, Dr. rer. agr. Thomas Aenis
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Stakeholder analysis in support of sustainable land management: Experiences from southwest China
2019Journal of Environmental Management · 53 Zitationen · DOI
Land management includes the actions of different stakeholder groups at different scales, from local measures to regional land use strategies to land use policies. For sustainable land management (SLM), particularly in its planning stage, it is essential to know stakeholders and, ideally, to involve them in decision-making, or at least to understand a given situation from their perspective in an attempt to target their problems and interests in solution development. Although stakeholder analysis (SA) has been adopted in various projects with the aim of grasping stakeholders' perceptions and encouraging their deeper involvement in land management, the "how to" remains unclear. Current guidelines for SA remain vague and fail to lead practical application. One reason is the complexity of land use itself. SA is case specific for each project and requires highly flexible project management that adjusts methods and instruments according to given conditions. This article provides a practical example and discusses experiences from a sustainable rubber management project in Southwest China. This case study shows how, to a certain extent, "usage-oriented" SA can support joint decision making in SLM. With a more general aim, we reflect on the process and its management. As a result, we identify some core management issues: the heterogeneity of stakeholder groups with their multiple interests, stakeholders' involvement in decision making, the necessity of iteration, and adjustments with respect to cultural context.
Sustainability · 49 Zitationen · DOI
India ranks first among the rainfed agricultural countries in the world. The impact of changing climate threatens rainfed food production as well as the food security of millions of people in the tropics and subtropics. The Government of India initiated Watershed Development Programmes (WDPs) for the overall development of these areas. We, therefore, established a comprehensive, location-specific, bottom-up tool to analyse and compare the climate vulnerability of watershed areas. For this, we deducted a new Climate Vulnerability Index for Rainfed Tropics (CVIRFT) to evaluate the potential effectiveness of programmes to adapt to climate change impacts. The CVIRFT comprises of three dimensions of vulnerability, i.e., adaptive capacity, exposure and sensitivity. These dimensions consist of ten major components and 59 indicators with emphasis on rainfed farming and WDP interventions. To test the tool, we collected primary data through household surveys (n = 215, split among three watershed communities) in Kerala. We show that there were strong variations in the exposure dimension, moderate in sensitivity and negligible in adaptive capacity across the watersheds. After analysing the major components under the dimensions, we suggest focusing on policy orientation towards redesigning of the WDPs with emphasis to economic diversification, livelihood strategies, social networking coupled with stakeholder participation, natural resource management and risk spread through credit and insurance flexibility. The CVIRFT is replicable to similar physio-geographic areas of rainfed farming, with the refinement of indicators suited to the locality.
CABI Reviews · 43 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract More than 90% of the global natural rubber production originates from monoculture plantations in tropical Asia, especially from countries forming the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Rubber cultivation is expected to further increase strongly in the near future, particularly at the expense of natural forests, and is accompanied by various problems and threats to farmers and the environment. Implications on carbon balance and hydrological conditions as well as socio-economic consequences referring to the situation in the GMS are reviewed. Results indicate considerable changes in ecosystem functions and services at different spatial and temporal scales with impacts on carbon stocks and sequestration, water quality and quantity, runoff and soil erosion. The long-term dependency on rubber as a single crop affects the socio-economic conditions and livelihood of the farmers and exposes them to economic and ecological hazards. Solutions for these interrelated problems require the development of alternative land-use systems and safeguarding important ecosystem functions and services on the one hand as well as providing economic viability on the other. Common suggestions include crop diversification and improved plantation management on the farm scale, and alternative land-use strategies including conservation and restoration of forest on the landscape scale. Successful implementation of more sustainable concepts is only feasible within a socio-economic framework, involving farmers and political decision-makers in the conceptualization process and the identification of trade-offs between ecological requirements and economic feasibility.
Sustainability Science · 42 Zitationen · DOI
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) aims at identifying implementable solutions to difficult sustainability problems and at fostering social learning. It requires a well-managed collaboration among multidisciplinary scientists and multisectoral stakeholders. Performing TDR is challenging, particularly for foreign researchers working in countries with different institutional and socio-cultural conditions. There is a need to synthesize and share experience among researchers as well as practitioners regarding how TDR can be conducted under specific contexts. In this paper, we aim to evaluate and synthesize our unique experience in conducting TDR projects in Asia. We applied guiding principles of TDR to conduct a formative evaluation of four consortium projects on sustainable land and water management in China, the Philippines, and Vietnam. In all projects, local political conditions restricted the set of stakeholders that could be involved in the research processes. The set of involved stakeholders was also affected by the fact that stakeholders in most cases only participate if they belong to the personal network of the project leaders. Language barriers hampered effective communication between foreign researchers and stakeholders in all projects and thus knowledge integration. The TDR approach and its specific methods were adapted to respond to the specific cultural, social, and political conditions in the research areas, also with the aim to promote trust and interest of the stakeholders throughout the project. Additionally, various measures were implemented to promote collaboration among disciplinary scientists. Based on lessons learned, we provide specific recommendations for the design and implementation of TDR projects in particular in Asia.
Climate Change Responses · 38 Zitationen · DOI
This paper presents a detailed analysis of a composite Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) to examine and compare climate change vulnerability and its dimensions adaptive capacity, sensitivity and exposure. Thereby, we are mainly interested on climate change vulnerability at community-level watershed development programmes and how the different implementing agencies could help to address the problems associated with climate change in future planning and implementation. The primary data used for this study was obtained from household surveys (n=215) in three watershed communities of Kerala, India. We use bootstrap sampling and a leave-one-out sensitivity analysis to compare the climate vulnerability of the three examined watersheds in detail. By introducing the bootstrapping method and sensitivity analysis into the research field of climate vulnerability, the paper describes significant differences in CVI values and the influencing indicators to the overall vulnerability at the watershed community level. The results show that there are significant differences in the exposure and sensitivity dimensions of vulnerability even if the overall CVI shows less variability and no significant differences among the three watersheds. The sensitivity analysis emphasizes that ‘Livelihood Strategies’ and ‘Social Network’ are the most influencing major components of vulnerability. This suggests that implementing agencies should focus on these two major components in order to improve the watershed development programmes. The bootstrapping approach is transferable to evaluate the degree of influence of indicators on a composite index like the CVI. Moreover, it allows us to evaluate the potential effectiveness of various other climate change programmes where the evaluation is commonly done by field surveys. This thereby helps to increase the credibility in the examination of the impacts of climate change at different scales in order to find key areas for better policy planning.
Sustainability Science · 32 Zitationen · DOI
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) that aims at the co-production of knowledge in the process of addressing sustainability problems requires effective communication among scientists and practitioners. In international TDR cooperation, it is recognized that particular attention must be paid to intercultural communication, to enhance knowledge integration and mutual learning. However, there is little knowledge about the role of communication in TDR and how TDR group members with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds can communicate effectively. In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis on transdisciplinary communication, with a particular focus on group dynamics and intercultural communication. On this basis, we develop a framework for TDR communication that encompasses topics and indicators for successful communication. This framework was applied in a Chinese–German project conducted in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China, to guide the transdisciplinary communication processes. We focused on the development of trusted relationships among scientists and practitioners in the TDR team, while simultaneously accomplishing various tasks, such as problem framing and scenario development. In this study, we provide insights into intercultural communication in TDR, particularly in the context of Europe–Asia transdisciplinary cooperation. Our findings show that power relations, translator roles and researchers’ mindsets influence effective communication and successful knowledge integration. In the future, additional attention should be paid to improving the supporting system and institutional arrangement for transdisciplinary communication.
Air Soil and Water Research · 25 Zitationen · DOI
Different countries face diverse challenges for Conservation Agriculture (CA) development. The main purpose of this study was to examine the challenges of applying CA in Iran from the perspective of experts and farmers. A focus group method was used to investigate the challenges. The research sample consisting of farmers and experts of CA in different provinces includes those 19 experts and 15 farmers. Inductive content analysis and coding (open, axial, and selective coding) were employed to analyze the farmers’ and experts’ discussions. The findings showed that the challenges of applying CA in the studied provinces could be divided into 6 general categories: institutional-infrastructure (7 concepts), economic (5 concepts), training-research (2 concepts), environmental (4 concepts), mechanization (2 concepts), and cognitive (2 concepts) challenges. The economic and institutional-infrastructure challenges were the most frequent related to applying CA. It can be concluded that to solve the challenges of applying CA, it is necessary to link various sectors of government (the Ministry of Agriculture), education and research (Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization), and industry together. But farmers themselves are also a major contributor to meet the challenges of CA development through participation in planning CA project and training-extension programs. Therefore, farmers’ communities should also pave the way for a transition from conventional agriculture to CA with their participation.
Land Use Policy · 15 Zitationen · DOI
Land use decision making requires knowledge integration from a wide range of stakeholders across science and practice. Many participatory methods and instruments aiming at such science-practice interaction have been developed during the last decades. However, there are methodological challenges, and little evidence neither about the methodological applicability and practicability under diverse socio-political conditions nor about their dynamics. The objective of this paper is to offer some insights on the design and implementation of reasonable science-practice interaction. The Chinese-German project SURUMER (Sustainable rubber cultivation in the Mekong region) served as a case study with the aim of developing sustainable land use strategies for rubber cultivation in southwest China. A triangulation of methods tailor-made for every specific stakeholder group allows the gradual deepening and broadening of participation in problem definition, knowledge generation, development of applicable solutions and implementation. The composition of methods should be reflected on and adjusted to the communication demands of specific stakeholder groups during project phases. It is important to invest in trust-building and allow time and space for the adaptation of approaches, especially in communities where participation is not a tradition.
11th European IFSA Symposium, Farming Systems Facing Global Challenges: Capacities and Strategies, Proceedings, Berlin, Germany, 1-4 April 2014 · 10 Zitationen
AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) · 7 Zitationen · DOI
In recent decades, climate change and frequent droughts have had great impacts on farming systems and have led farmers to become accustomed to these conditions, which are causing problems, especially, for smallholder farmers. With the severe weather events and their adverse effects, especially in arid regions, farmers' adaptation to these changes is an indisputable and critical strategy. Thus, farmers need to make complex decisions about mitigating the adverse effects of climate change to take advantage of newer opportunities as possible. The understanding of the process by which farmers decide to stand facing climate changes and probing into the determinants of the process provide research evidence for policymakers to assist farmers to adapt to climate change effects. This article would establish a conceptual framework, inclusive of factors influencing farmers’ decision-making to adapt to climate change, and would clarify causal relations among these factors. According to the results, household characteristics, economic factors, knowledge, motives and goals, perceived outcomes of adaptation, social, personal norms, perception of climate change, perceived risk and obstacles, attitude towards climate change, prospective perception of climate change, the evaluation of climate change, and adaptation initiatives could influence farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change.
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Building sustainable rural futures: the added value of systems approaches in times of change and uncertainty. 9th European IFSA Symposium, Vienna, Austria, 4-7 July 2010 · 6 Zitationen
The Nabanhe National Natural Reserve (NNNR) is located in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, China. The region is one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world with highly diverse nature, societies and cultures, as well as agriculture. In the past decades the land-tenure reformation and the formal governmental agricultural extension have been the main drivers for the introduction of new crops and varieties such as rubber and hybrid paddy rice. This went along with new technologies such as fertilizer and pesticide. As a consequence, the farming system shifted from a subsistence slash-and-burn system to an intensive, market oriented one.Rapid economic development was coupled with fundamental social changes in families and villages (individual behaviour, social relationships, ceremonies, communication working conditions), and a decline in the biodiversity of the natural tropical rain forest and agriculture. The role of agriculture for farmers changed from ensuring food security towards income generation and consumption. The pathway of development might be similar to the one followed in other regions. The main distinction is in the speed.
Building sustainable rural futures: the added value of systems approaches in times of change and uncertainty. 9th European IFSA Symposium, Vienna, Austria, 4-7 July 2010 · 5 Zitationen
This paper discusses research from a communication perspective. Such research is oriented towards the resolution of societal problems. This requires a paradigm shift for the scientist, from the arena of theory and method to application instead. The emphasis is no longer on utility for the scientist or for science, but on the application, i.e., the utility to those applying the knowledge. Transdisciplinary research is often carried out within large consortia. Inner-consortium research communication can be understood as a system of process-, organisational- and team-communication (1) process communication includes the planning, monitoring and evaluation of networked projects at different levels - in the large group, in working groups, in meetings and workshops; (2) team communication deals with group dynamic processes within various small groups which arise during the course of the consortium's work - primarily intra-group communication -; and (3) organisational communication includes group dynamic processes within the large group consortium and the creation of project structures - both direct intra-group and indirect inter-group communication. The three fields of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and communication are analysed. It is argued that within a transdisciplinary consortium, all three modes of communication co-exist. Thesis 1: Application-oriented research necessitates, first and foremost, a paradigm change for the scientist, primarily regarding the purpose of the research as opposed to theory and method. The emphasis thus shifts to the application of the research, i.e. the utility to those who will apply the knowledge, in contrast to its scientific utility. The entire problem-solving process must occur via dialogue involving the participation of the relevant actors. Participation in this sense also refers to the involvement of the scientist in problem solving, i.e. the implementation of the research results. Thesis 2: Inner-consortium research communication can be understood as a system of intra-group communication, mainly face-to-face, and inter-group communication, involving the indirect transfer of messages by representatives. Three main communication objects can be identified: the research process, the organisation consortium and the working teams.
Building sustainable rural futures: the added value of systems approaches in times of change and uncertainty. 9th European IFSA Symposium, Vienna, Austria, 4-7 July 2010 · 4 Zitationen
Farmers in medium and high altitudes in the Nabanhe National Nature Reserve (NNNR), Yunnan province, China grew accustomed in recent years to watching their lowland counterparts enjoying rapid economic growth. Not being able to grow rubber trees - an economic driving force, which can be grown up to approximately 1,000 m a.s.l. - brings farmers to consider alternative farming livelihoods. Other stakeholders in the NNNR have different goals of biodiversity conservation and sustainable environmental development. As a result, a conflict is often created between farmers' economic goals and external stakeholders' ecological goals. In this study, agriculture innovations, such as tea-intercropping were examined to assert whether they can bring those contradicting goals together. From the field of ecological economics Richard Norgaard's theory of coevolution was used to examine the interlinked and mutually influenced development of society and environment on each other. In conjunction with this aspect of the research, Everett M. ROGERS's adoption of innovation theory was applied to look at the reasons for adopting tea-intercropping innovation. Therefore, the two theories were used to assess whether tea-intercropping can really improve the liveability of the farmers, both in economic and ecological terms. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were the main method used in the study. The research disclosed three key findings: (1) Altitude leads to crop choices which can be positive for both economic and ecologic goals; (2) Tea-intercropping reduces economic uncertainty and improves life in the farms of the high altitude; (3) Tea-intercropping production systems coexist in adjacent to forest ecosystems.
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The Sino-German project “SURUMER: Sustainable rubber cultivation in the Mekong region” is looking for “…an integrative, applicable, and stakeholder-validated concept for sustainable rubber cultivation” in Xishuangbanna region, South-west China. In order to at least partially implement solutions for problems of the complex rubber-dominated land use situation, project partners are testing a holistic approach to research-practice-integration which combines profound scientific analyses with a range of activities to enhance interaction and collaborative learning amongst stakeholders (i.e., practitioners and reseachers). In this presentation we discuss the approach to research-practice-integration. Furthermore we will discuss strengths and weaknesses, identify the mayor challenges and draw conclusions for future process management. The effort follows the assumption that the possibility for implementation will be the higher the more “realistic” the concepts are and the better they are communicated with stakeholders. Three key stakeholder groups have been identified so far, namely innovative rubber farmers and village heads, prefecture administration, and provincial politicians. For stakeholder involvement, a pragmatic communication approach has been chosen which consists of a range of discourse instruments such as bilingual information material, newsletters, focus groups, and a series of workshops with key stakeholders. One of its main elements is participatory scenario development including discussions on the economic and ecologic trade-offs of different land use. Various aspects supporting or hindering implementation have been analysed: Generally, communication amongst researchers but mainly between researchers and practitioners takes more time and resources than initially estimated. This mainly affects the testing of new approaches. For example, “scenarios” are discussed in a complete different way within the group of researchers than amongst practitioners, which means that there is need for translation not only from English to Chinese and vice versa, but between abstract modeller-thinking and concrete needs of practice. “Demonstration plots” on intercropping with endangered tree species can show only the very initial planting processes; evidence that intercropping is more sustainable than conventional rubber cultivation is limited. Stakeholders are open towards innovative solutions. Most of them are aware of ecological problems such as water quantity and quality even if they do not necessarily link them with rubber cultivation. More important is the fact that prices for latex have decreased to less than a quarter in recent years and farmers may have lost two-third of their income. Many farmers either search for work in town or they rent their community land to investors. If farmers rent out land to external investors there is a threat that rubber might be replaced by ecologically more adverse cultures such as banana. Despite the time constraints and limited resources for interaction with stakeholders, SURUMER has shown ways to mutually develop solutions amongst research and practice. Experience shows that communication processes must be managed carefully. It is obvious that significant resources are needed, and that even long research projects of five years can not expect full implementation.
11th European IFSA Symposium, Farming Systems Facing Global Challenges: Capacities and Strategies, Proceedings, Berlin, Germany, 1-4 April 2014 · 3 Zitationen
11th European IFSA Symposium, Farming Systems Facing Global Challenges: Capacities and Strategies, Proceedings, Berlin, Germany, 1-4 April 2014 · 3 Zitationen
edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin) · 2 Zitationen · DOI
IFSA Europe (www.ifsa-europe.org) is a platform for European Farming systems research. With the 11th European IFSA symposium we sought manifold answers that deal with challenges in an integrative, interconnected way on field and farm level, on regional or landscape level or even at a larger scale.
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Sustainability Science · 1 Zitationen · DOI
The article Communication processes in intercultural transdisciplinary research: framework from a group perspective, written by Jue Wang, Thomas Aenis and Tuck Fatt Siew, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 11 February 2019 without open access.
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11th European IFSA Symposium, Farming Systems Facing Global Challenges: Capacities and Strategies, Proceedings, Berlin, Germany, 1-4 April 2014 · 1 Zitationen
edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin) · DOI
edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin) · DOI
Rubber plantations became a considerable element of Mainland South East Asia, often dominating whole landscapes. The expansion of rubber plantations took place on behalf of diverse, traditional land-use systems and near-natural or old growth forests, especially mountainous and formerly remote areas, which became accessible due to infrastructure development. This land-use transformation inevitably affects Ecosystem Functions and Services, one of it being the provisioning of water in general and drinking water in particular. In the framework of the interdisciplinary SURUMER-project we studied the socioeconomic framework conditions as well as the consequences of the rubber management practices in Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province, SW China 1 concerning: a/farmers’ perception of the importance of ecosystem services, b/ the use of agro-chemicals and farmers’ awareness of its potential negative consequences, c/ the impact of the weeding scheme on erosion, d/ farmers’ micro-economic situation. The respective disciplinary methodologies have been applied. It turned out that ‘water’ is by far the most important ESS to farmers, reflecting their experience of degrading water sources accompanying rubber expansion. At the same time the use of agro-chemicals and pesticides is ubiquitous, showing the low awareness concerning the potential impacts on water quality and health, respectively. Based on an integrative analysis of the different aspects we suggest alternative management concepts on plot but also landscape level. These comprise a shift from chemical to mechanical weeding. Since the traditional manual brushing is labor intensive, the alternative option of using brush cutters is currently assessed. Additionally, labor extensive permanent intercropping schemes with economically but also ecologically valuable tree species are suggested to improve soil stability in the rubber-inter rows but also to reduce weeding requirements. Since water provisioning can hardly be safeguarded on a plot level but needs the consideration of the respective watershed, water protection zones have been suggested, where rubber management needs to be strongly restricted or abandoned. The idea received considerable attention from farmers but also illustrated the complexity of the topic. Thus, the beneficial farmer communities are not necessarily the respective land owners, making agreements challenging.
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