Montiflor Marilou O, Vellema Sietze, Digal Larry N
Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wagenignen, Netherlands.
School of Management, University of the Philippines Mindanao, Davao, Philippines.
Front Plant Sci. 2019 Aug 30;10:1048. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01048. eCollection 2019.
An integrative management approach to the spread and emergence of global plant diseases, such as the soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 (Foc TR4), entails a combination of technical measures and the responsiveness and awareness of area-specific constellations supporting conditions conducive to interactions and coordination among organizations and actors with different resources and diverse interests. Responses to banana diseases are mostly studied through technical and epidemiological lenses and reflect a bias to the export industry. Some authors, however, indicate that cross-sector collaboration is crucial in responding to a disease outbreak. Earlier studies on the outbreak of diseases and natural disasters suggest that shared cognition and effective partnerships increased the success rate of response. Hence, it is important not to focus exclusively on the impacts of a pathogen at farm or field level and to shift attention to how tasks and knowledge are coordinated and shared. This paper aims to detect whether and how the emergence of Foc TR4 is a driver of coordination. The case study focuses on the interactions between a variety of banana producers and among a range of public and private actors in southern Philippines. The analysis identifies distinct forms of coordination emerging in the context of three organizational fields responding to Foc TR4, which underlie shared capacity to handle and understand the spread of a global plant disease. The research is based on qualitative key informant interviews and document analysis and on observations of instructive events in 2014-2017. Analysis of the composition and actions developed in three organizational fields leads to distinguishing three theory-driven forms of coordination: rule-based, cognition-based, and skill-based. The combination of these three forms constitutes the possibility of a collaborative community, which conditions the implementation of an integrative management approach to mitigate Foc TR4.
对于全球植物病害的传播和出现，如土传真菌尖孢镰刀菌古巴专化型热带4号小种（Foc TR4），采用综合管理方法需要结合技术措施，以及特定地区的支持条件所具有的响应能力和意识，这些条件有利于不同资源和多样利益的组织与行为者之间的互动与协调。对香蕉病害的应对大多是从技术和流行病学角度进行研究的，反映出对出口产业的偏向。然而，一些作者指出，跨部门合作在应对疾病爆发方面至关重要。早期关于疾病和自然灾害爆发的研究表明，共同认知和有效的伙伴关系提高了应对成功率。因此，重要的是不要只专注于病原体在农场或田间层面的影响，而要将注意力转移到任务和知识是如何协调与共享的。本文旨在探究Foc TR4的出现是否以及如何成为协调的驱动力。该案例研究聚焦于菲律宾南部各类香蕉生产者以及一系列公共和私营行为者之间的互动。分析确定了在应对Foc TR4的三个组织领域背景下出现的不同协调形式，这些形式构成了应对和理解全球植物病害传播的共享能力的基础。该研究基于定性关键信息人访谈、文献分析以及对2014 - 2017年指导性事件的观察。对三个组织领域中形成的构成和行动的分析，区分出三种理论驱动的协调形式：基于规则的、基于认知的和基于技能的。这三种形式的结合构成了协作社区的可能性，为实施减轻Foc TR4影响的综合管理方法创造了条件。
