Nudging Sustainability Transitions Using Innovation Platforms and Market-Oriented Development in Mozambique
Abstract
This project will develop an Innovation Platform (IP) approach for identifying and facilitating sustainability transitions towards inclusive market-oriented development. Recognizing the complexity of socio-ecological systems and IPs as mechanism for learning and change, we have developed a nested approach that engages social and agronomic research to better understand and more effectively facilitate change processes. Beyond providing tangible outputs as delivered by the IP, we will provide procedures and methods for instilling change in complex systems, through multi-level learning and analysis of system dynamics. We believe that technologies to improve production and productivity already exist. However, uptake of technologies is slow and market linkages limited. In addition to this, we do not know where to start tweaking a system, what mechanisms in an IP can make the change process more effective and inclusive, and the effects of underlying socio-ecological structures that prevent change to take place. We focus our work to a project site in semi-arid Mozambique, building on the lessons from the MOREP project (ADA funded, 2012-2015).
Innovation Participation Empowerment
Publikationen
Project staff
Michael Hauser
Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Michael Hauser
michael.hauser@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93415
Project Leader
01.10.2015 - 22.01.2017
Rosana Kral
Mag.rer.nat. Dr. Rosana Kral B.A.
rosana.kral@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93412
Project Leader
23.01.2017 - 30.09.2018
BOKU partners
External partners
International Center of Agriculture in the Dry Areas_x000D_
none
coordinator