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Supportive enabling environments for up- scaling climate smart food systems Wiebke Förch , Olaf Westermann, Mark Howden, Philip Thornton, Sonja Vermeulen, Ioannis Vasileiou CCAFS, CSIRO, IIED Partner logo Transformations, Stockholm, 5 October 2015

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Page 1: Supportive enabling environments for up-scaling climate smart food systems Wiebke Förch et al 2015

Supportive enabling environments for up-scaling climate smart food systems

Wiebke Förch, Olaf Westermann, Mark Howden, Philip Thornton, Sonja Vermeulen, Ioannis Vasileiou

CCAFS, CSIRO, IIED

Partner logo

Transformations, Stockholm, 5 October 2015

Page 2: Supportive enabling environments for up-scaling climate smart food systems Wiebke Förch et al 2015

Context• Climate change pushes societies towards new realities• Even in a 2-degree world, stakes are high• Smallholder farmers are likely to be most affected• Need comprehensive solutions for society

– Climate smart agriculture (CSA): food security, adaptation, mitigation– Not incremental but transformative change needed

• Current approaches to scaling agric. practices & technologies – Agric. extension (supply led) / participatory approaches (demand led)– Challenges: transaction costs of reaching large numbers, meeting

farmers’ priorities and political, institutional and economic barriers • Technologies as levers for change – need conducive

institutional environments & partnerships across levels– Scaling up needs to become more effective

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Scale of change

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Spectrum of adaptation

• Different levels of adaptation

• Density of empirical information

• R4D: generating new knowledge on practices & technologies

- Mostly incremental change

- Need to show impact

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Approach• Transdisciplinary

case studies on adaptation (28), scaling up CSA (11)

• Simple analytical framework: lessons on processes, capacities, institutions to facilitate scaling

• Hypothesis: lessons in both studies could apply to transformative change

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Key learning

• Unavoidable trade-offs between reach and context -> potentially high transaction costs

• Multi-stakeholder platforms and policy making networks are key to effective scaling, if paired with capacity enhancement, learning, support farmers’ decision making -> high investment

• Cross-level processes for transformation – higher leverage points can be efficient

• Little robust information on economic efficiency and actual impact

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Key learning

• Interactions with different types of partner are key• Looped learning is important (hindsight – insight – foresight)• Formulate and address critical assumptions, which may

make or break the scaling-up process• Bridge gaps between short- and long term• Address root causes of vulnerability – institutional

environments matter most