Climate change and poverty are under-researched, with few studies examining the linkages between climate impacts and poverty beyond effects on vulnerability, productivity, and extreme events. More research is needed on livelihoods, agrobiodiversity, value chains, migration, gender issues, and identifying and addressing maladaptation. Partnerships are important for addressing climate change but actual partnerships often fall short of ideals. Effective partnerships require all partners to understand the problem and their roles, have common purpose, and complementary strengths, along with incentives to drive collaboration. Developing partnerships requires avoiding token efforts, using appropriate conceptual frameworks, defining clear roles, and leveraging multi-stakeholder platforms to engage actors at multiple scales.

1. Climate Change and Poverty and Climate Change and
Partnership: Report from break-out sessions

2. Conclusions – Climate Change and Poverty
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1. Climate change and poverty relationships are under-researched:
 Empirical evidence still weak; studies focused on vulnerability,
productivity and not linkages with poverty
 Little attention to post-production processes
 Focus on extreme events but not in a comprehensive approach that
examines both impacts of extremes and of longer-term changes and
social inclusion for transformational adaptation
2. Next steps (research needs):
 Detailed livelihood studies that consider agrobiodiversity, value
chains, off-farm income, migration, gender & social differentiation
 How to increase resilience to CC through integration of indigenous
and scientific knowledge and successful adaptation models
 How to identify maladaptation early and deal with trade-offs
 Examine opportunities for livelihood enhancement under climate
change – and understand the role of networks

3. Conclusions: Climate change and partnerships
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1. Partnership models
 Partnerships are universally recognised as important, but actual partnerships
are often far from ideal
 All partners need to understand the complexity of the problem, understand
their roles in working together, and have common purpose
 Complementarity amongst partners is key; and there must be sufficient
incentives to drive the partnerships
2. Next steps to develop partnerships for scaling up
 Avoid token partnerships and token partnership processes
 Have a good conceptual framework and understand the context for the
partnership
 E.g. Use value chain approach to identify key actors
 Define clear roles of different partners
 Understanding incentives and power relations for effective partnerships
 Use multi-stakeholder platforms to engage different actors (inc. Across scales
where needed)
 Invest in communication, and empower communicators