Mehmood Hassan and Patti Kristjanson of ICRAF and CCAFS respectively presented a paper titled "CGIAR reform and approaches to climate smart innovations that ensure farmer needs are incorporated & addressed in research" at the ITAACC Final International Workshop, (ICIPE) Nairobi May 8-9, 2014.

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Cap
Dev.
Gend
er
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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Thank you!
Questions?