Reflecting on integrated assessment in the socially inclusive agricultural intensification (SIAGI) project

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Title

The 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation

First Page

918

Last Page

924

Publisher

The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc.

School

School of Science

Funders

Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

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Merritt, W., Hamilton, S. H., Carter, L., Cosijn, M., Lim-Camacho, L., & Roth, C. H. (2019, December). Reflecting on integrated assessment in the socially inclusive agricultural intensification (SIAGI) project [Paper presentation]. The 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Canberra, Australia. https://mssanz.org.au/modsim2019/papersbysession.html

Abstract

Agricultural aide interventions are often intended to help small and marginal farmer households increase their agricultural production, and by doing so, better meet their household needs and improve their social and economic standing. However, intensifying their agricultural production requires them to have the capital assets (financial, human, natural, physical and social) and agency to access and use more agricultural inputs, develop and manage the necessary farm or community level infrastructure (e.g. for irrigation, or post-harvesting), and make informed crop and land management choices. Many small and marginalised farmers are lacking in both capital and agency, which constrains their capacity to engage in, and benefit from, agricultural intensification. In this paper, we reflect on our integration research in the 'Promoting Socially Inclusive and sustainable Agricultural Intensification in West Bengal and Bangladesh' (SIAGI) project, focusing on the learnings and outcomes of being socially inclusive in our modelling practices. The Ethical Community Engagement (ECE) ethos and practice to which the SIAGI project team has committed has shaped the content of the integrated assessment frameworks that we have developed as well as the process (Figure 1) we used to develop them. Social inclusion is both a core value of the SIAGI project and an outcome against which the impact of the project will be measured.

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