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2. Opportunities for adaptive online collaboration to enhance rural land management
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Baumber, Alex (author), Metternicht, Graciela (author), Ampt, Peter (author), and Cross, Rebecca (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-08-01
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10627
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 219: 28-36
- Notes:
- 9 pages., via online journal., Cross-property cooperation has the potential to enhance the effectiveness of environmental management actions that cut across property boundaries. Online tools can facilitate this and overcome barriers to landholder engagement in collaborative management. However, collaborative online tools need to be designed and tailored to users' needs and values, and landholder participation in the development process is critical to ensuring uptake and long-term use. This article presents a case study from the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia, where landholders have been involved in participatory development of a new online collaboration tool. The case study results highlight the significance of issues such as internet access, privacy, technical proficiency and differing stakeholder objectives. A landholder survey identified mapping and the uploading of monitoring data as important functions for the online tool, but these were not rated as highly as functions relating to data security, sharing settings and key term searches. Consequently, we recommend that a future online collaboration tool for the region is not framed specifically as a mapping or citizen science tool, but rather as an adaptive collaboration and communication tool that can incorporate a variety of data types and formats and be modified over time in line with changing landholder needs.
3. Pastoralist's perceptions on the impact of Vachellia karroo encroachment on communal rangelands of the East Cape, South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tokozwayo, S. (author), Mopipi, U.K. (author), Timpong-Jones, E.C. (author), Gulwa (author), Thubela, T. (author), and Nyangiwe, N. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11
- Published:
- South Africa
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12000
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(11) : 222-233
- Notes:
- 12 pages, Online via UI Library electronic subscription. Open access to full text., This study concluded that the small to medium-sized tree, Vachellia karroo, commonly known as sweet thorn, had a negative impact on farmers' production, and sheep and cattle owners observed the encroachment of it as a form of land degradation. Pastoralists said the use of fire and bush clearing could be used to mitigate encroachment. Authors suggested providing training and demonstrations that can complement farmers' knowledge.