Presentation held by Working Group 6 at the Governance & Institutions Across Scales in Climate Resilient Food Systems Brussels Workshop 9-11 Sept 2014 for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Flagship 4.

1. Group 6

2. Beyond Policy
• Private sector and governance
–Business, civil society, consumer
unions, etc.
–Emerging role of diverse
stakeholders
–Potential impact pathways and
modes of engagement?

3. Beyond Snapshot Case Studies
• Longitudinal research on governance
–Agricultural and food systems
• Comparative case studies
–Data harmonization

4. Beyond Technicality
• Politics and power in adaptation
processes (and “adaptation” processes)
– Strategic use of material resources and
scientific information
– Discursive trajectories and strategies
– Intersection with other political agendas
– Cross scale: global-national, national-local

5. Global
Donors Int’l policy Int’l research Int’l development
National
Local
Sectors
Ministries
Customary
institutions
Civil society
• Resources
• Information
• Discourses
• Harmonization
• Contestation
• Feedbacks
• Accountability

6. Beyond the “Beyonds” I
• Trade-offs and/or perverse outcomes
of polycentricity vs. harmonization?
• Under what conditions do
governance mechanisms succeed or
fail to bridge across scales?

7. Beyond the “Beyonds” II
• ICTs and governance
–Public information accessibility
–Inclusive governance in planning
• Short term vs. long-term adaptation
• Incremental vs. transformative
adaptation