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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
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Transformations, Stockholm, 5 October 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
Scale of change
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Incremental
Systemic
Transformative
Radical?
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
Scale of change
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Incremental
Systemic
Transformative
Radical?
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
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
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