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A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2018.09.009
10.1016/j.agsy.2018.09.009
 
Title A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research
 
Creator Thornton, P K
Whitbread, A M
Baedeker, T
Cairns, J
Claessens, L
Baethgen, W
Bunn, C
Friedmann, M
Giller, K E
Herrero, M
Howden, M
Kilcline, K
Nangia, V
Ramirez-Villegas, J
Kumar, S
West, P C
Keating, B
 
Subject Climate Adaptation
Climate Mitigation
Agricultural Policy
Climate Risk
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Agricultural R&D
Agricultural Research
Climate Change
 
Description Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is widely promoted as an approach for reorienting agricultural development under the realities of climate change. Prioritising research-for-development activities is crucial, given the need to utilise scarce resources as effectively as possible. However, no framework exists for assessing and comparing different CSA research investments. Several aspects make it challenging to prioritise CSA research, including its multi-dimensional nature (productivity, adaptation and mitigation), the uncertainty surrounding many climate impacts, and the scale and temporal dependencies that may affect the benefits and costs of CSA adoption. Here we propose a framework for prioritising agricultural research investments across scales and review different approaches to setting priorities among agricultural research projects. Many priority-setting case studies address the short- to medium-term and at relatively local scales. We suggest that a mix of actions that span spatial and temporal time scales is needed to be adaptive to a changing climate, address immediate problems and create enabling conditions for enduring change.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2018-11
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10889/1/A%20framework%20for%20priority-setting%20in%20climate%20smart%20agriculture.pdf
Thornton, P K and Whitbread, A M and Baedeker, T and Cairns, J and Claessens, L and Baethgen, W and Bunn, C and Friedmann, M and Giller, K E and Herrero, M and Howden, M and Kilcline, K and Nangia, V and Ramirez-Villegas, J and Kumar, S and West, P C and Keating, B (2018) A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research. Agricultural Systems (TSI), 167. pp. 161-175. ISSN 0308521X