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Facilitating Change for Climate-Smart Agriculture through Science-Policy Engagement

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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10082616
10.3390/su10082616
 
Title Facilitating Change for Climate-Smart Agriculture through Science-Policy Engagement
 
Creator Dinesh, D
Zougmore, R B
Vervoort, J
Totin, E
Thornton, P
Solomon, D
Shirsath, P
Pede, V
Lopez Noriega, I
Läderach, P
Körner, J
Hegger, D
Girvetz, E
Friis, A
Driessen, P
Campbell, B
 
Subject Climate Mitigation
Agriculture
Climate Risk
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Climate Resilient Technologies
Climate Change
 
Description 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).
 
Publisher MDPI
 
Date 2018-07-26
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10825/1/Facilitating%20Change%20for%20Climate-Smart%20Agriculture.pdf
Dinesh, D and Zougmore, R B and Vervoort, J and Totin, E and Thornton, P and Solomon, D and Shirsath, P and Pede, V and Lopez Noriega, I and Läderach, P and Körner, J and Hegger, D and Girvetz, E and Friis, A and Driessen, P and Campbell, B (2018) Facilitating Change for Climate-Smart Agriculture through Science-Policy Engagement. Sustainability (TSI), 10 (8) (2616). pp. 1-21. ISSN 2071-1050