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The Role of Water, Trees, Livestock, Crops, Wildlife Individually or in an Integrated Way. Group 1. Drylands Programme Meeting: Nairobi March 2011. Clarify how the dimension we are working in contributes to successful implementation and scaling up.
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The Role of Water, Trees, Livestock, Crops, Wildlife Individually or in an Integrated Way Group 1 Drylands Programme Meeting: Nairobi March 2011
Clarify how the dimension we are working in contributes to successful implementation and scaling up • Is scaling up required? – design different approaches for different contexts • Need to try multiple options across multiple circumstances to learn what works where and for whom
Overarching principles • Water balance and soil health are compromised in many instances • There are strong feedbacks between components – need to be managed in such a way as to optimise the benefits to people • In an integrated way
Overarching principles • Water and soil nutrients are an input and output that flows though the entire system • Underpins primary production • Influences livestock, wildlife • Leaves the system
Roles of different actors • What is generalisable? – difficult • Need more cross location analysis • Systematic analysis of all the case studies – integrated management solution of what’s making them work and where?
Roles of different actors • Water is central? • We need to ascertain who has tenure over water flowing through the system – particularly where management retains water in a particular area – negotiations over water rights issues
Is the dimension context specific? • Yes • To agro-eco zone • Socio-economic, governance, cultural issues • We tend to think things are homogenous at a larger scale than they are – so we need to design projects at a scale at which they are relevant – challenges the assumptions of scaling up • So need context based intervention
Is the dimension context specific? • This has implications for how we store and communicate knowledge about interventions and how they can be combined in specific locations/contexts • Questions about climate change – focus on coping with climate variability? • At the scale at which interventions need to be planned and where predictions of climate change are uncertain