Research organizations want to im-prove impact while ensuring that techno-logical innovations leading to enhanced productivity do not undermine the long-term productive potential of farms. Social,policy and economic issues hindering development and change need to be ad-dressed. Areas such as collective resource management;information systems that improve theefficiency of institutional support; and market and policy incentives that encourage investment in NRM need attention. Inte- grated Natural Resource Man- agement (INRM) is a new approach that can tackle these issues but requires time forbuilding awareness, practical skills and experience. INRM poses two main challenges—devel-oping and testing new approaches, and deriving institutional arrangements thatfoster innovation and learning cultures.Technically-based organizations tend toimpede uptake of new methods. Therefore,changing internal working patterns and culture is fundamental, and processes thatenable this to happen need to be understood and managed. “Learning” organizations should enable staff to be innovative andundertake critical reflection on the dynam-ics of organizational change, construction of knowledge-related social interactions,the role of individual attitudes and behavior, and how to embrace learning from error.
Año de publicación
2003
Autores
Idioma
English
Palabras clave
deforestation, ecosystems, forest cover, forests, water, farms, framework
Geográfico
Tanzania
