Targeting Sustainable Agriculture Water Management Policies: A comparative Study

Código

I-EBHE0224

Autores

Suxia Liu

Tema

WG 2.5: The Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) nexus: pathways to resilience

Resumo

The Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework has been widely used in various domains, functioning as an interdisciplinary tool for presenting and analyzing information that describes an issue via indicators and statistics, being an advantageous tool for easing the communication between politicians, scientists and the public, as well as the identification of the chain reaction between key types of indicators. By applying the framework in case study sites located in China and Denmark, the merit of the framework in identifying the policy disparities and projecting more suitable policy measures in agricultural water management (AWM) was shown in previous study (Liu et al., 2022). Most responses were found to target only the pressure component of the framework. This discovery opened the door for the development of additional response mechanisms, which together could result in more sustainable policy measures for agriculture that may be more effective, more quickly. Although many countermeasures existed for control of land, water and fertilizer use at the national level in both countries, their deployment depended heavily on effective stakeholder engagement and local-level adoption strategies, indicating a more holistic and multi-objective (less fragmented) policy approach is needed. Notably, Importantly, the study demonstrated an alternative implementation of the DPSIR framework, where comparative study applications may be used to enable cross learning that may enhance the uptake of disruptive solutions (technological and/or policy advancement), recognizing that incremental change may not be cost- efficient or sustainable especially for regions with critical water issues. In this study, new interview data from local farmers in Rwanda about taro plantation is used to test if the general conclusions drawn from Sino-Danish comparative apply in Rwanda example.