Governance & Institutions Across Scales in Climate Resilient Food Systems

Wiebke Förch, Philip Thornton, Ioannis Vasileiou

9-11 September 2014, Brussels

Outline

CCAFS Flagship Policies and institutions for climate-resilient food systems overview

Workshop overview

Boundaries

Expected outputs

CCAFS Flagship Policies and institutions for climate-resilient food systems

VisionNational, regional and global policies and institutions enable equitable food systems that are resilient to a variable and changing climate.

Targets (Outcomes)• By 2025, 20 national/subnational jurisdictions increased their equitable

institutional investment in climate smart food system.

• By 2019, 15 equitable national/subnational food system policies enacted that take into consideration climate smart practices and strategies.

• By 2019, 10 regional/global organisations that inform their equitable institutional investments in climate-smart food systems using CCAFS outputs.

Flagship 4 Outcome 2025Policies and institutions at different scales enable equitable food systems that are resilient to a variable and changing climate

WA’s FP4 2019 Outcome

StatementNational decision makers start investing in policies and institutions that take into consideration CSA practices and strategies

FP4 2019 Outcome #2Appropriately directed institutional investment of Regional/ global organisations (e.g. IFAD, WB, FAO, UNFCCC) based on national/regional engagement to learn about local climate smart food system priorities

FP4 2019 Outcome #1National/sub-national jurisdictions enact equitable food system policies and increase institutional investment that take into consideration climate smart practices/strategies, better articulated among themselves and in collaboration with private sector, civil society and researchers informed by CCAFS decision support tools

EA’s FP4 2019 Outcome Statement

National ministries of agriculture, environment, and parliamentarians are collaborating to make evidence informed policies for increased investments in climate resilient food systems

LAM’s FP4 2019 Outcome Statement

National jurisdictions design and enact food system policies and strategies to support national policy and global climate change negotiations and together with private institutions develop NAPs with their respective investment plans using CCAFS data and tools

SA’s FP4 2019 Outcome

StatementNational/subnational jurisdictions develop CSA policies and programs, and strengthen related institutions based on evidence provided by CCAFS science

SEA’s FP4 2019 Outcome Statement

Policy makers enhancing the design, investment decisions, implementation and M&E of food system and climate change policies through a transparent, coordinative and consultative mode from local to national level

EA’s FP4 2019 Outcome Statement

African Group of Negotiators, UNFCCC Focal Points are using scientific evidence to effectively articulate the African position on agriculture and climate change issues, reflecting also in current and emerging global agreements

INDICATOR: # of regional/global organisations that inform their equitable institutional investments in climate smart food systems using CCAFS outputs; Target: 10(WA: 1, EA: ?, LAM: 2, SA: 0, SEA: 4, Global: 3)

INDICATOR: # of national/subnational jurisdictions that increased their equitable institutional investments in climate smart food systems

TARGET 2025 FP4: 20

EA contribution: TBCEA contribution: 2 SEA contribution: 4 + 4WA contribution: 2 + 1

LAM contribution: 3 + 2

SA contribution: 3

INDICATOR 1: # of equitable national/subnational food system policies enacted that take into consideration climate smart practices and strategies; Target: 15 (WA: 2, EA: 2, LAM: 3, SA: 3, SEA: 4, Global: 0)

FS4 MOG 8 - Effective and equitable engagement of international organisations with national/regional partners and vice versa to influence global policies and strengthened capacities to formulate and represent local priorities in global fora

FS4 MOG 9 - Evaluation of engagement processes/tools, identified innovative processes to ensure effective policy mechanisms

FS4 SEA MOG 11 - Improved regional/global investment choices through appropriately contextualised priority setting, drawing on global foresight (linking climate, emissions, GDP and population scenarios) and socio-economic regional scenarios.

FS4 MOG 7 - Syntheses of supra-national governance mechanisms/systems, taking into account social differentiation and cross-scale linkages, as well as governance of transformation and climate finance

FS4 SEA MOG 10 - Evidence base on social learning approaches to outscale climate resilient outcomes and frameworks for enhanced decision making targeting socially differentiated and vulnerable populations.

FS4 MOG 1 - Improved national development planning processes, including policy (re)formulation, implementation and M&E

FS4 MOG 3 - Stakeholder engagement to ensure demand-led research, e.g. innovation platforms, learning alliances and science-policy dialogues

FS4 MOG 2 - Policy and stakeholder analyses, including policy processes, mechanisms and recommendations

FS4 MOG 4 - Tradeoff analyses to identify locally appropriate, cost effective adaptation and mitigation options throughout the food system and national investment priorities amongst public sectors

FS4 MOG 5 - Participatory scenarios including downscaling of global/regional models, upscaling of household/landscape models and multisectoral investment options

Flagship 4 Outcome 2025Policies and institutions at different scales enable equitable food systems that are resilient to a variable and changing climate

FP4 2019 Outcome #2Appropriately directed institutional investment of Regional/global organisations (e.g. IFAD, WB, FAO, UNFCCC) based on national/regional engagement to learn about local climate smart food system priorities

FP4 2019 Outcome #1National/sub-national jurisdictions enact equitable food system policies and increase institutional investment that take into consideration climate smart practices/strategies, better articulated among themselves and in collaboration with private sector, civil society and researchers informed by CCAFS decision support tools

FS4 MOG 6 - Foresight on alternative development and investment pathways for policy formulation, including food access and utilisation scenarios; foresight capacity strengthened

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How might FP4 have impact?

Need an enabling institutional environment if millions of farmers are to practise climate smart agriculture

Food system policies must address CC impacts and adaptation options; CC policies must address the ag sector and food security

Policies must reduce inequity and the socially disadvantaged

Adaptation will need widespread behavioural changes

FP4 will address formal / informal strategies and mechanisms, norms and procedures (private sector organizations, NGOs, governance systems)

Appropriately channelled international climate finance and global institutional investment in CSA can help overcome adoption constraints

Flagship 4 products

1. Data, models and scenarios to understand the impact of climate change on agriculture

2. Decision support tools for targeting policy development and making investment choices in food systems from national to global level

3. Analysis of strengths and weaknesses of current and emerging policy with pilot policy intervention case studies conducted with national partners, paying attention to social differentiation and gender issues

4. Analysis and experimentation concerning novel decision-making processes, up-scaling and cross-scale methodologies, policy making networks, platforms, visioning, and capacity strengthening: novel methods to bridge the science-policy divide

FP4 regional priorities (so far)

• Mainstream adaptation strategies into national policies, agricultural development plans, and key regional agricultural-CC processes (EA, LAM, SA, WA)

• Learning alliances and national exchange platforms to support co-generation of knowledge, enhance science-policy dialogue, promote evidence-based policy outcomes, social learning (EA, WA, LAM)

• Tools, case studies for food security planning including crop yield forecasting (SA, WA)

• Tools, case studies to inform decision making on investments in CSA technologies and practices (LAM, SA, EA, WA)

• Participatory scenarios developed for ag and food security and priority setting in the context of climate change to inform national regional plans (EA, WA, SA, SEA, LAM)

• National / regional case studies on the science-policy-practice interface in climate change adaptation (WA, EA, LAM)

FP4 global priorities (so far)

• Integrated assessment modelling, model intercomparison, tool/methods development - IFPRI, IIASA, others

• Global policy & engagement, capacity strengthening – CCAFS (UNFCCC, IFAD), Bioversity (ITPGRFA-CBD/NP)

• Governance and institutions across scales

• Studies on the demand side of food production (Food Climate Research Network, ECI, CSIRO, FAO, others)

• Foresight and scenarios (IFPRI-PIM, ECI, WU, GFAR, others)

• Social learning evidence base (IIED, ILRI, CSIRO, CARIAA, others)

Governance and institutions across scales

• Workshop overview• Governance and institutions at macro scales not sufficient focus in

AR4D• Take stock of research field and key institutions

• 2 background papers, workshop• Contribute towards portfolio development for CCAFS Phase 2

• Objectives • Identify key research areas on governance and institutions across

scales in climate resilient food systems for the coming years• Considering a research for development outcomes focus what are

the research gaps (e.g. data, topics, tools, approaches) that could be meaningfully addressed

• Identify opportunities for CCAFS to form new partnerships and approaches to address priority research gaps identified

Boundaries

• Research priorities focusing on CC and food systems

• Governance and institutions not to mean governments and policies:• Institutions: structures, mechanisms, formal or informal rules that

govern social interactions• Governance: formal/informal processes, mechanisms contributing to

frameworks, rules, actions that produce, maintain, regulate a particular system

• National to global levels and across scales - not local, unless as part of cross-scale (CCAFS regions EA, WA, SA, SEA, LAM)

• Outcome focused – changed institutions, policies, practices

• Funding: limited resources available, importance of leveraging

• Let’s not get into definitions …

Expected workshop outputs

• Well-defined research areas on governance and institutions in climate resilient food systems for the coming years

• Areas where CCAFS and partners could make a meaningful contribution, and a way forward

• Potential (new) strategic partnerships

What does CCAFS bring?

• Long-term program

• Global brand to help leverage funding

• Access to CGIAR expertise (all 15 Centres) – research, tools, models, impact assessment, …

• Global reach of CGIAR – scalability, regions, comparability, partners & linkages, facilities

• CCAFS as a testbed for new approaches

• CGIAR commitment to producing international public goods, not serving a specific agenda