Purpose – This paper aims to report on a case in which encouraging climate-smart agriculture in the form of better irrigation techniques in India can contribute to both climate change mitigation and adaptation goals by improving resource-use efficiency. It provides grounded institutional analysis on how these transformations can occur. Design/methodology/approach – The authors based their research on three complementary approaches: institutional, sociological and technical. The institutional approach analyzed actors and interests in the waterenergy nexus in India via over 25 semi-structured key informant interviews. The sociological approach surveyed over 50 farmers and equipment suppliers for insight into technology adoption. The technical component analyzed water and energy consumption data to calculate potential benefits from transitioning to more efficient techniques. Findings – Because policymakers have a preference for voluntary policy instruments over coercive reforms, distortions in policy and market arenas can provide opportunities for embedded actors to leverage technology and craft policy bargains which facilitate Pareto superior reforms and, thereby, avoid stalemates in addressing climate change. Enlarging the solution space to include more actors and interests can facilitate such bargains more than traditional bilateral exchanges. Practical implications – The analysis provides insights into crafting successful climate action policies in an inhospitable institutional terrain. Originality/value – Studies about climate change politics generally focus on stalemates and portray the private sector as resistant and a barrier to climate action. This paper analyzes a contrary phenomenon, showing how reforms can be packaged in Pareto superior formats to overcome policy stalemates and generate technology-based climate and environmental co-benefits in even unpromising terrain such as technologically laggard and economically constrained populations.

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克服印度气候智能农业的障碍

目的–本文旨在报告一个案例，在该案例中，通过在印度采用更好的灌溉技术来鼓励气候智能型农业，可以通过提高资源利用效率为缓解气候变化和适应目标做出贡献。它提供了有关这些转换如何发生的扎实的制度分析。设计/方法论/方法-作者的研究基于三种互补的方法：制度，社会学和技术。通过超过25个半结构化的关键知情人访谈，这种制度性方法分析了印度水能关系中的参与者和利益。社会学方法对50多个农民和设备供应商进行了调查，以了解技术采用情况。该技术组件分析了水和能源消耗数据，以计算从过渡到更高效的技术后的潜在收益。调查结果–由于决策者相对于强制性改革而言倾向于自愿性的政策工具，因此政策和市场领域的扭曲可以为内在行动者提供机会，利用有利于帕累托高级改革的技术和政策谈判手段，从而避免在应对气候变化方面陷入僵局。与传统的双边交流相比，扩大解决方案的空间以包括更多的参与者和利益可以更有利于进行此类讨价还价。实际意义–分析为在恶劣的机构环境中制定成功的气候行动政策提供了见识。原创性/价值–有关气候变化政治的研究通常集中在僵局，并将私营部门描述为抵制和阻碍气候行动的因素。本文分析了一种相反的现象，显示了如何以帕累托高级格式打包改革方案，以克服政策僵局，并在技术落后和经济拮据的人口等毫无希望的地形中产生基于技术的气候和环境共同利益。