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Conservation Agriculture, Innovations Platforms and Community Capitals

Conservation Agriculture, Innovations Platforms and Community Capitals. Presentation to the Impact Assessment and Targeting Unit CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexico February 25, 2008 Cornelia Butler Flora cflora@iastate.edu. International. Community outreach strategies. Regional hubs.

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Conservation Agriculture, Innovations Platforms and Community Capitals

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  1. Conservation Agriculture, Innovations Platforms and Community Capitals Presentation to the Impact Assessment and Targeting Unit CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexico February 25, 2008 Cornelia Butler Flora cflora@iastate.edu

  2. International Community outreach strategies Regional hubs Short arrows indicate adaptation National Local CA principles adapt Farmers fields Pesticide use Herbicide Use CA adapted & managed adapt GP x Agro ecosystem adapt adapt Machinery Prototypes Identified Resource conserving technologies Germ Plasm Seed multiplication & adaption Science: first and second generation IPGs adapted at each level

  3. Market Civil Society State Innovation Platform: Actors from each sector at various levels

  4. Built Capital Financial Capital Natural Capital Political Capital Poverty alleviation Resource conservation Cultural Capital Social Capital Human Capital

  5. Immutable Mobiles for CA Individual IPGs for each capital • Natural: germ plasm, climate knowledge • Cultural: scientific method, valuing poverty reduction and natural resource conservation • Human: people who understand the basic principles of CA • Social:networks of researchers, practitioners, and input suppliers, • Political: standards and rules to protect the environment and provide ways of earning a living with dignity and their enforcement • Financial: funding to support the other capitals over time • Built: herbicides, machinery, fertilizers, These can be created and maintained at the international level

  6. Built Capital Financial Capital Natural Capital Political Capital Vital Economy Social Inclusion Healthy Ecosystem Cultural Capital Social Capital Human Capital

  7. Immutable Mobiles for CA IPGs become more complex as the capitals overlap Created and maintained at the regional and national levels

  8. Built Capital Financial Capital Natural Capital Political Capital Vital Economy Social Inclusion Healthy Ecosystem Cultural Capital Social Capital Human Capital

  9. Local level CAMutable Immobiles • The are public goods but only have IPG implications when tied into the larger networks • There needs to be selective two way flows of information to constantly improve the IPGs.

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