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Best Practices:Operational Framework
Francisco Pérez-Trejo
Natural Resources Department&
Knowledge Exchange Division
Starting Point: SARD Conceptual Framework for Agriculture and Land Management Best
Practices
SARD Conceptual Framework for Agriculture and Land Management Best Practices
FAO 2002
” CONFOUNDING FACTORS AND TRADE-OFFS IN SARD IMPLEMENTATION
The evidence shows that SARD as defined in Agenda 21 can lead to rural livelihood improvements.
However, most contexts will see the emergence of critical trade-offs and contradictions. The use of one asset can result in the depletion of another.
The Driving Forces
Understanding the Causal Linkages
Climate variability
Conceptual Issues for Best Practices in Complex Developing Systems
Levels of complexity considered:• Technical• Sectorial – Regional• System – level dynamics:
– emergence of risks, vulnerabilities, changes– climate change, energy, water, natural
resources
Conceptual Issues for Good Practices
Key elements :• Strategic context
– Mission environment, scope of effort
• System context– Desired outcome & impact
• Stakeholder context– relationship and involvement
• Implementation context– Scale of effort & systems implementation
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OperationTools
DecisionSupportTools
SharedUnderstanding
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Storage, Access
Technologies &
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Distribution
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Loose Coupling
Tight Coupling
Information
Community’sInformationArchitecture
No mechanism or work flow
Assumed Knowledge
The Methodology - Initial phase :
• Defining the system components– Relevant spatial scales– Identify the driving forces, processes– Describe linkages: intersectorial,
production systems, land, environment, socio-economic, livelihoods
• Characterizing the processes (feedback loops)– positive feedback (vicious cycles), negative
feedback• Integration of existing information systems
– Data and information requirements of users
– Evaluation and impact assessment
Considerations for NR Department:
• Operational framework: methodology, work-flow
• Adding effectiveness to existing work in FAO• Implementing the framework with Member
Countries– Key users (policy makers, technical
programmes, key partners)– Regional entities– FAO Decentralized Offices