Stringer, LC orcid.org/0000-0003-0017-1654, Reed, MS, Fleskens, L orcid.org/0000-0001-6843-0910 et al. (3 more authors) (2017) A new dryland development paradigm grounded in empirical analysis of dryland systems science. Land Degradation and Development, 28 (7). pp. 1952-1961. ISSN 1085-3278
Abstract
Global drylands face a host of urgent human and environmental challenges with far-reaching impacts. Improving smallholder agriculture remains a key development pathway to tackle these challenges. The Dryland Development Paradigm (DDP), introduced in 2007, presented a highly influential framework for dryland development based on systems research. This paper empirically derives a new, updated DDP. It assesses recent, cutting-edge dryland science, combining literature review with qualitative and quantitative analysis of research published by the world's largest dryland science and development research initiative. The new DDP comprises eight characteristics that are distilled into three integrative principles: Unpack, Traverse and Share. The new DDP is applied and tested to identify key dryland knowledge and development gaps. A future research agenda is then elucidated, grounded in a research in development approach, in which research anchored in the three integrative principles is embedded within the context it seeks to improve. Supported by greater transdisciplinarity and knowledge co-production, operationalization of the new DDP can deliver both novel scientific insights and development impact in line with the aspirations of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors. Land Degradation & Development Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | agricultural systems; livelihoods; arid and semi-arid environments; social-ecological resilience; sustainable development goals |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2017 12:21 |
Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2020 23:27 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/ldr.2716 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:112721 |