Abstract
There has been strong research interest in designing and testing learning approaches for enhancing and sustaining the capacity of communities to manage collective action problems. Broadening the perspective from well-known social learning approaches in natural resource management, this study explores how social learning as a communicative process influences collective action in contagious crop disease management. A series of facilitated discussion and reflection sessions about late blight management created the social learning space for potato farmers in Ethiopia. Communicative utterances of participants in the sessions served as the units of analysis. The study demonstrates how and to what extent social learning, in the form of aligned new knowledge, relations and actions occurred and formed the basis for collective action in the management of late blight.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 111-134 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Systemic Practice and Action Research |
| Volume | 33 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 9 Jan 2020 |
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Keywords
- Collective action
- Communication
- Crop disease
- Late blight
- Social learning
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Governing a Collective Bad: Social Learning in the Management of Crop Diseases. / Damtew, Elias; van Mierlo, Barbara; Lie, Rico; Struik, Paul; Leeuwis, Cees; Lemaga, Berga; Smart, Christine.
In: Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol. 33, 09.01.2020, p. 111-134.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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T1 - Governing a Collective Bad: Social Learning in the Management of Crop Diseases
AU - Damtew, Elias
AU - van Mierlo, Barbara
AU - Lie, Rico
AU - Struik, Paul
AU - Leeuwis, Cees
AU - Lemaga, Berga
AU - Smart, Christine
PY - 2020/1/9
Y1 - 2020/1/9
N2 - There has been strong research interest in designing and testing learning approaches for enhancing and sustaining the capacity of communities to manage collective action problems. Broadening the perspective from well-known social learning approaches in natural resource management, this study explores how social learning as a communicative process influences collective action in contagious crop disease management. A series of facilitated discussion and reflection sessions about late blight management created the social learning space for potato farmers in Ethiopia. Communicative utterances of participants in the sessions served as the units of analysis. The study demonstrates how and to what extent social learning, in the form of aligned new knowledge, relations and actions occurred and formed the basis for collective action in the management of late blight.
AB - There has been strong research interest in designing and testing learning approaches for enhancing and sustaining the capacity of communities to manage collective action problems. Broadening the perspective from well-known social learning approaches in natural resource management, this study explores how social learning as a communicative process influences collective action in contagious crop disease management. A series of facilitated discussion and reflection sessions about late blight management created the social learning space for potato farmers in Ethiopia. Communicative utterances of participants in the sessions served as the units of analysis. The study demonstrates how and to what extent social learning, in the form of aligned new knowledge, relations and actions occurred and formed the basis for collective action in the management of late blight.
KW - Collective action
KW - Communication
KW - Crop disease
KW - Late blight
KW - Social learning
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DO - 10.1007/s11213-019-09518-4
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VL - 33
SP - 111
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JO - Systemic Practice and Action Research
JF - Systemic Practice and Action Research
SN - 1094-429X
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