CGIAR reform and approaches to climate smart innovations that ensure farmer needs are incorporated & addressed in research

CGIAR reform and approaches to climate smart innovations that ensure farmer

needs are incorporated & addressed in research

Mehmood Hassan & Patti Kristjanson ICRAF & CCAFS

Bridging the gap between agricultural research and farmers practice ITAACC Final International Workshop, ICIPE, Nairobi May 8-9, 2014

CGIAR Centers

IFPRI, USA

CIMMY, Mexico

CIAT, Columbia

ICRAF, Kenya ILRI, Kenya

ICARDA, Jordan

Biovarsity, Italy

ICRISAT, India

IWMI, Sri Lanka WorldFish, Malaysia

CIFOR, Indonesia

IRRI, Philippines

CIP, Peru

AfricaRice, Benin

Major drivers of CG reforms were a) top-down nature of innovation design; b) the perceived lack of fit between innovations developed and the uptake by

users; and b) poor integration of NARES and other development players into CGIAR Research

CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs)

• Agriculture for Nutrition and Health • Aquatic Agricultural Systems • Policies, Institutions and Markets • Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) • Forests, Trees and Agroforestry • Water, Land and Ecosystems • Dryland Systems • Humidtropics

• Dryland Cereals • Grain Legumes • Livestock and Fish • Maize • Rice (GRiSP) • Roots, Tubers and Bananas • Wheat • Genebank

CCAFS (and other CRPs) Approach

Embracing the key “Linking Knowledge with Action” Lessons and Principles (essentially the Feldafing Principles): • Strategic partnerships and inclusive engagement processes

• Joint learning and co-design of solutions

• Co-developing research questions and approaches with farmers

• Gender transformative approaches

• Innovative communication for scaling out

• Nested impact pathway development with partners and M&E for tracking and achieving joint outcomes

Cap Dev.

Gender

IDO1: Enhanced food security

IDO2: Benefits to women and marginalised groups

IDO3: Enhanced adaptive capacity to climate risks

IDO5: Reduced GHGs and forest conversion

Partners 1. CSA Alliance, World Bank, IFAD, Climate Finance Orgs,

Ministries 2. World Vision, National Meteorological Agencies, Disaster

Risk Agencies, Insurance Agencies 3. IIASA, FAO, Global Research Alliance for Agricultural GHGs 4. Food security and climate adaptation agencies, GFAR, CFS

Multiple local partners (e.g. NARES, CARE, Vi, Mediae, PROLINNOVA, National Insurance Company of India)

Flagship 2: Climate –information services and climate-informed safety

nets

Flagship 3: Low emissions development

Flagship 4: Policies and institutions for climate resilient food systems

Flagship 1: Climate –smart agricultural practices

IDO4: Policies supporting climate-resilient agriculture

1&3: CSA Alliance, World Bank, IFAD, Green Climate Fund, Prolinnova, climate finance orgs, agriculture, envir, other ministries 2: World Vision, National Meteorological Agencies, Disaster Risk Agencies, Insurance Agencies

Working with partners to

make it happen

Working with partners to collect the evidence and

change opinions and worldviews

Working with partners to

understand what works

Partners

Partners

A key CG gender research challenge with respect to climate smart agriculture

We need to understand the differences in the needs and preferences and assets (financial, human capital, etc) – of men, women and youths – that facilitate or impede their adoption of new technologies, innovations & practices.

It is these new practices (e.g. improved soil, water, agroforestry, crop, livestock management) that will make them more resilient to a changing climate.

Innovative approaches and partnerships for inclusive scaling out

• Farm reality TV show targeting and informing East Africa women, men and youth on climate-smart agriculture technologies

• Testing new large-scale, inclusive crowdsourcing approaches

• Mobile-phone based equitable irrigation advisory services

• Female and youth-targeted climate and ag information services

• Participatory farmer-led videos sharing perceptions, knowledge and adaptation strategies

Approaches for inclusive scaling out, cont’d

M&E: Training in gender impact pathway analysis and M&E strategies with partners

Identifying context-driven, appropriate tools, capacity strengthening and jointly generating new evidence (with development partners)

• e.g. Many research institutions/CRPs working together on the development of improved gender-climate change research tools

• Local partner trainings with

development partners in 5

CCAFS regions and joint

implementation of these new

methods and approaches ccafs.cgiar.org/gender

Exploring Social Learning Approaches across the CG and elsewhere

To understand what social learning approaches can offer the sciences of adaptation and mitigation, we need to assemble an appropriate evidence base – CCAFS has launched a ‘call to action’ in Nature Climate Change for researchers all over the world to contribute their case studies, using a common framework for evaluation - http://ccsl.wikispaces.com/

NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | VOL 4 | JANUARY 2014 | www.nature.com/natureclimatechange

Thank you!

Questions?