Selecting SLM Technologies Using Stakeholder

Workshops in the Loess Plateau

The 5th Plenary Meeting DESIRE Internat ional Conference on Combating Land Degradation in Agricultural Areas (LANDCON1010) Xi’an, China

依法以智，保持水土

山川秀美， 今裕后泽

Gudrun Schwilch,

Hanspeter Liniger

University of Bern,

CDE

Dr. Wang Fei

on behalf of

DESIRE Team of ISWC

Diagnostic phase

Synthesis and implementation

phase

Dissemination phase

Evaluat ing biophysical, socio-economical, polit ical and inst it ut ional

context per st udy sit e

Current status and stakeholder needs

assessment

Defining promising prevention and

remediation strategies

Implementing and testing of selected

measures

Evaluation performance and

determine regional effects

Development of a harmonized information system, preparation of guidelines, and practical handbooks for end-users etc.

What is the project running ?

The DESIRE initiative – project approach

Graph: Coen Ritsema, Alterra

Objectives

WP 3.1: To identify existing and potential strategies

with a participatory learning approach

(stakeholder workshop 1)WP 3.2: To evaluate, document and share

strategies with the WOCAT tools

WP 3.3: To select most promising strategies with a

decision support tool (stakeholder workshop 2)

Problems

Strategies

Approaches

Assessment

Public decision

Qualitification

Why to?

How to?

List of workshop participants

Workshop2： moderator (s): Wang Fei, Li Jinpeng, Zhang Jinxin, Wang Qunxing; 21 participants

Workshop1 ： moderator (s): Wang Fei, Li Jinpeng, Zhang Jinxin; 17 Stakeholders

List of workshops participants

GO: Soil and Water Conservation Bureau of Ansai, Land

Management Bureau of Ansai, Forestry Bureau of Ansai, Fruit

Bureau of Ansai, Official of Zhenwudong Town, Ansai, Education

Bureau of Ansai, Office of “Grain for Green” of Ansai, Yanhe River

Basin office Ansai Branch

NGO: Ansai Science and Technology Association of the Senior

Citizen

Land user: head of village, Land users

Researcher: staff of ISWC, CAS, Students from ISWC, CAS and

Northwest A&F University

Mutual learning and

understanding of land degradation

and desertification

Trust and collaboration among

local and external participants

Identification of existing and new

strategies to prevent or mitigate

land degradation and desertif.

Selection of a set of these

identified strategies for further

assessment

Objectives of stakeholder Workshop1

Results of Workshop1

Photo 3 The selection of main effects of biomass cycle

UP: Improving awareness of each stakeholders: the water cycle is much easier to know and analysis in the study site, but the bio-mass is more difficult because the local people have no special attention to it. The multi-stakeholders participating is necessary. It would improve the awareness via knowledge exchange.

Below: the judgement

of different

stakeholders would

make the questions

and problems clearer.

Results of Workshop1

Improvement of Awareness

Objectives of stakeholder WP2 ：

To select promising (existing and

potential) strategies for land

conservation to be implemented and

tested in the selected study site

To jointly select 1-2 options

(mitigation strategies) from the

WOCAT database to be implemented /

field-tested in the selected study site

in the context of DESIRE WB 4.

To strengthen trust and

collaboration among concerned

stakeholders.

Step1 Review: Recall + decide /Get aware /Review and adjust

Step 2 Options: Identify and visualize/Search based on WOCAT databases Step 3 Criteria: Identify

/Environmental, economic and social cri teria /criteria reflect the most important qualit ies

Step 4 Scoring options: assess the option /compare carefully/ small stakeholder groups

Step 5 Ranking criteria: organize cri teria hierarchically /Assigning al l criteria to categories /Ranking criteria

Step 6 Analysis Visualization

Step 7 Negotiation and Decision making

Steps of WP2

Step 8 Embedding into overall strategy

Slope crop land with gullies

Converting grassland into orchard

Workshop 2 -Step 1

4 practices (T,RF,G and B)

Checkdam land

Checkdam (When will be land?)

Workshop 2 -Step 2

Miaowan Watershed

Workshop 2 -Step 2

Workshop 2 - Step 3 Criteria

Step 4 Indicators for Scoring options

Step 5 Ranking criteria

Workshop 2 - Step 4 and 5

Step 5 Ranking criteriaWorkshop 2 - Step 5

Step 6 Analysis Visualization

Workshop 2

The dif ference

impacts Wide and narrow

range Options

The WOCAT DESIRE method is powerful tool to select

and evaluate the soil and water conservation practice. The

criteria of option vary greatly. Only based on the plenary

discussion, could the better option be selected.

The stakeholders should balance the option carefully all

the time. If we want to change a the best conservation plan,

we should do more.

Objectives of stakeholder Workshop1

Step 8 Embedding into overall strategy

王飞 中国科学院水利部水土保持研究所 wafe@ms.iswc.ac.cn

依法以智 保持水土 山川秀美 今裕后泽

王飞 中国科学院水利部水土保持研究所 wafe@ms.iswc.ac.cn

依法以智 保持水土 山川秀美 今裕后泽

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