Governing a Collective Bad: Social Learning in the Management of Crop Diseases

Elias Damtew (), Barbara Mierlo, Rico Lie, Paul Struik, Cees Leeuwis, Berga Lemaga and Christine Smart
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Elias Damtew: Wageningen University
Barbara Mierlo: Wageningen University
Rico Lie: Wageningen University
Paul Struik: Wageningen University
Cees Leeuwis: Wageningen University
Berga Lemaga: CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB), International Potato Center (CIP)
Christine Smart: Cornell University

Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2020, vol. 33, issue 1, No 6, 134 pages

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Crop disease; Late blight; Social learning; Collective action; Communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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