Facilitating change for climate-smart agriculture through science-policy engagement
Climate change impacts on agriculture have become evident, and threaten the achievement of global food security. On the other hand, the agricultural sector itself is a cause of climate change, and if actions are not taken, the sector might impede the achievement of global climate goals. Science-policy engagement efforts are crucial to ensure that scientific findings from agricultural research for development inform actions of governments, private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international development partners, accelerating progress toward global goals. However, knowledge gaps on what works limit progress. In this paper, we analyzed 34 case studies of science-policy engagement efforts, drawn from six years of agricultural research for development efforts around climate-smart agriculture by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Based on lessons derived from these case studies, we critically assessed and refined the program theory of the CCAFS program, leading to a revised and improved program theory for science-policy engagement for agriculture research for development under climate change. This program theory offers a pragmatic pathway to enhance credibility, salience and legitimacy of research, which relies on engagement (participatory and demand-driven research processes), evidence (building scientific credibility while adopting an opportunistic and flexible approach) and outreach (effective communication and capacity building).
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dig-cimmyt-10883-195792021-02-09T18:24:50Z Facilitating change for climate-smart agriculture through science-policy engagement Dinesh, D. Zougmore, R.B. Vervoort, J. Totin, E. Thornton, P.K. Solomon, D. Shirsath, P.B. Pede, V.O. Lopez-Noriega, I. Läderach, P. Korner, J. Hegger, D. Girvetz, E.H. Friis, A.E. Driessen, P.P.J. Campbell, B.M. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY Science-Policy Interface Science-Policy Engagement CLIMATE CHANGE AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT ADAPTATION CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION FOOD SECURITY CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE Climate change impacts on agriculture have become evident, and threaten the achievement of global food security. On the other hand, the agricultural sector itself is a cause of climate change, and if actions are not taken, the sector might impede the achievement of global climate goals. Science-policy engagement efforts are crucial to ensure that scientific findings from agricultural research for development inform actions of governments, private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international development partners, accelerating progress toward global goals. However, knowledge gaps on what works limit progress. In this paper, we analyzed 34 case studies of science-policy engagement efforts, drawn from six years of agricultural research for development efforts around climate-smart agriculture by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Based on lessons derived from these case studies, we critically assessed and refined the program theory of the CCAFS program, leading to a revised and improved program theory for science-policy engagement for agriculture research for development under climate change. This program theory offers a pragmatic pathway to enhance credibility, salience and legitimacy of research, which relies on engagement (participatory and demand-driven research processes), evidence (building scientific credibility while adopting an opportunistic and flexible approach) and outreach (effective communication and capacity building). 2616 2018-08-16T20:49:09Z 2018-08-16T20:49:09Z 2018 Article https://hdl.handle.net/10883/19579 10.3390/su10082616 English CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose. Open Access PDF Basel, Switzerland MDPI 8 10 Sustainability |
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Climate change impacts on agriculture have become evident, and threaten the achievement of global food security. On the other hand, the agricultural sector itself is a cause of climate change, and if actions are not taken, the sector might impede the achievement of global climate goals. Science-policy engagement efforts are crucial to ensure that scientific findings from agricultural research for development inform actions of governments, private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international development partners, accelerating progress toward global goals. However, knowledge gaps on what works limit progress. In this paper, we analyzed 34 case studies of science-policy engagement efforts, drawn from six years of agricultural research for development efforts around climate-smart agriculture by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Based on lessons derived from these case studies, we critically assessed and refined the program theory of the CCAFS program, leading to a revised and improved program theory for science-policy engagement for agriculture research for development under climate change. This program theory offers a pragmatic pathway to enhance credibility, salience and legitimacy of research, which relies on engagement (participatory and demand-driven research processes), evidence (building scientific credibility while adopting an opportunistic and flexible approach) and outreach (effective communication and capacity building). |
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Dinesh, D. Zougmore, R.B. Vervoort, J. Totin, E. Thornton, P.K. Solomon, D. Shirsath, P.B. Pede, V.O. Lopez-Noriega, I. Läderach, P. Korner, J. Hegger, D. Girvetz, E.H. Friis, A.E. Driessen, P.P.J. Campbell, B.M. |
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Dinesh, D. Zougmore, R.B. Vervoort, J. Totin, E. Thornton, P.K. Solomon, D. Shirsath, P.B. Pede, V.O. Lopez-Noriega, I. Läderach, P. Korner, J. Hegger, D. Girvetz, E.H. Friis, A.E. Driessen, P.P.J. Campbell, B.M. |
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Facilitating change for climate-smart agriculture through science-policy engagement |
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