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Watershed-based Natural Resource Management in Small-scale Agriculture: Sloped Areas of the Andean Region
Jeffrey Alwang, Professor
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech
Washington, DC, 31 August 2009
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Objectives
Describe LTRA-3 research projectPresent and discuss main messages from research
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Host-Country Partners
Ecuador: INIAP—Victor Barrera; ECOCIENCIA SIGAGRO-MAGBolivia: PROINPA—Ruben Botello PROMICUMSS
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US Partners
Jeffrey Alwang Ag. and Applied Economics, Virginia TechDarrell Bosch, Ag. and Applied Economics, Virginia TechGeorge W. Norton Ag. and Applied Economics, Virginia TechSarah Hamilton, International Development, Univ. of DenverMary Leigh Wolfe, Bio. Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech.Brian Benham, Center for TMDL and Watershed Studies, Bio. Systems Engineering, Virginia TechConrad Heatwole, Bio. Systems Engineering, Virginia TechPaul Backman, Plant Pathology and Biocontrol, Penn StateJonathan Lynch, Plant Nutrition, Penn State UniversityWills Flowers, Entomology and Biological Control, Florida A&M
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Project Objectives
Generate and validate environmentally sustainable alternatives to improve production systems and enhance income generation
Create a means of evaluating the impacts of alternative actions, policies and interventions on income generation, and social and environmental conditions
Build local capacity to evaluate policy alternatives, and make and enforce decisions
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Organizing Concept
The main organizing concept is an adaptive watershed management approach whereby local actors are brought together to identify objectives, participate in research, and make decisions based on research findings
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Research Activities
Bio-physical research activities to identify potential solutions to constraints faced by farmers, including plant diseases, variety selection, feasibility of alternative crops (rotations), soil erosion and water managementSocial science research on the determinants of household livelihood strategies, profitability of livelihood alternatives, access to markets, costs and benefits of enhanced natural resource management, and institutional considerations affecting governance
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Research Activities
Tied together through physical and economic models of the watershedModel results are used in a participatory adaptive watershed planning process to inform local decision makers about the impacts and consequences of alternative land usesProject is engaged in an ongoing dialogue with local stakeholders to guide research activities and build ownership of research outputs
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Sites: Chimbo, Ecuador & Tiraque, Bolivia
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Bolivia Departament of Cochabamba
Sub-watershed “Jatun Mayu”
river
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Five big messages
InstitutionsParticipationWatershed modelingRiskLinkages
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Message 1: Institutions matter
National agricultural research systems & local institutions
Research capacityLinkages to local governments and other institutionsBoth institutions (INIAP and PROINPA) have strong capacity, credibility in field and linkages to private sector
Assistance to achieve food security should work through and strengthen existing institutions
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Message 2: Participation is important, but not all participation is equal
“New” and “improved”—has term lost its meaning?Review of watershed management programs in Andean Region: all used participatory methods, but with big differences in effectivenessEngaged participation and learning
Trust (in competency and motives)Bring something to the table: alternativesParticipatory learning
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Example: Soil erosion trials
Soil loss & management Participation: identifying the problem, establishing trials, measuring outcomesHands on: see the dirt and see the yieldsUptake technologieshave been taken up
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Contour cultivation and ground-cover, Alumbre
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Cultivation in belts: Illangama
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Message 3: Watershed modeling: more than we could chew?
Data hungry models: SWAT and GLEAMSHigh tech and inappropriate?
Provides structure to data collection & analysisCapacity buildingValidation of alternative methods
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Sediment yield prediction by SWAT
PROMIC's risk assessment approach (Vargas et al., 2007)
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CONCLUSIONS
PROMIC’s approach and SWAT produce similar erosion risk assessmentPROMIC’s more qualitative approach is suitable for general erosion risk assessment
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Message 4: Focus on risk
Intrinsic and instrumental impacts of riskFood security and intrinsic valueInstrumental impacts on agriculture
Market choiceVariety choiceProduction efficiency
Risk management and long-term food security
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Example: Efficiency and risk1. Estimate KGMHLBC model:
The stochastic production frontier and the inefficiency model are estimated jointly:
2. Estimate technical efficiency (TE) scores and map scores based on field and household locations
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Main findingsTechnical efficiency scores
Test for spatial autocorrelation
→ Fields located near each other have similar level of efficiency where households located nearby have uncorrelated averaged efficiency scores.
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N Z-Score Meaning Basis
For each field 287 5.37 Clustered Field locationAveraged the household level
123 -0.19 Random Household location
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Main findingsImportant clusters of low and high technical efficiency scores are found when the analysis is performed at the field-levelThese clusters are practically inexistent when analysis is performed based on the household locations
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Conclusion
Variability in efficiency due to environmental factors and exposure to riskHaving fields in different locations and managed differently is a diversification strategy used to mitigate riskInefficient fields are clustered in highly vulnerable areas=>instrumental impact of risk
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Message 5: Forward and backward: beyond farming
Livelihood focus has proven to be usefulObstacles to adoption?Risk managementEconomic mosaic
Forward linkages: value chains and increased returnsNeed to support producer organizationsBe supportive of formal membership among women
Looking backward: Bio-products, soil amendmentsSanitary seeds, graftingPotential for cottage industries with strong linkages and positive environmental impacts
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Study of isolation of endophyte bacteria in faba beans and potato in process
Plant pathogenic nematodes controlled through “bio-fumigation”
Agricultural Alternatives: Bolivia. Alleviate pest constraints to annual crops
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Conclusions
Research results provide more detailsImpacts are highest where several forces collide:
Strong institutions and linkages to study areasSequenced participationScience brings something to the tableFits with livelihoods
Soil conservation in upper Chimbo in Ecuador
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