A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is widely promoted as an approach for reorienting agricultural development under the realities of climate change. Prioritising research-for-development activities is crucial, given the need to utilise scarce resources as effectively as possible. However, no framework exists for assessing and comparing different CSA research investments. Several aspects make it challenging to prioritise CSA research, including its multi-dimensional nature (productivity, adaptation and mitigation), the uncertainty surrounding many climate impacts, and the scale and temporal dependencies that may affect the benefits and costs of CSA adoption. Here we propose a framework for prioritising agricultural research investments across scales and review different approaches to setting priorities among agricultural research projects. Many priority-setting case studies address the short- to medium-term and at relatively local scales. We suggest that a mix of actions that span spatial and temporal time scales is needed to be adaptive to a changing climate, address immediate problems and create enabling conditions for enduring change.
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dig-cimmyt-10883-196522023-12-08T14:47:58Z A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research Thornton, P.K. Whitbread, A. Baedeker, T. Cairns, J.E. Claessens, L. Baethgen, W. Bunn, C. Friedmann, M. Giller, K.E. Herrero, M. Howden, M. Kilcline, K. Nangia, V. Ramirez Villegas, J. Kumar, Shalander West, P.C. Keating, B. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY CLIMATE CHANGE AGRICULTURE RESILIENCE RESEARCH MITIGATION ADAPTATION Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is widely promoted as an approach for reorienting agricultural development under the realities of climate change. Prioritising research-for-development activities is crucial, given the need to utilise scarce resources as effectively as possible. However, no framework exists for assessing and comparing different CSA research investments. Several aspects make it challenging to prioritise CSA research, including its multi-dimensional nature (productivity, adaptation and mitigation), the uncertainty surrounding many climate impacts, and the scale and temporal dependencies that may affect the benefits and costs of CSA adoption. Here we propose a framework for prioritising agricultural research investments across scales and review different approaches to setting priorities among agricultural research projects. Many priority-setting case studies address the short- to medium-term and at relatively local scales. We suggest that a mix of actions that span spatial and temporal time scales is needed to be adaptive to a changing climate, address immediate problems and create enabling conditions for enduring change. 161-175 2018-10-23T16:43:50Z 2018-10-23T16:43:50Z 2018 Article 0308-521X https://hdl.handle.net/10883/19652 10.1016/j.agsy.2018.09.009 English CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose. Open Access PDF Amsterdam, Netherlands Elsevier 167 Agricultural Systems |
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Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is widely promoted as an approach for reorienting agricultural development under the realities of climate change. Prioritising research-for-development activities is crucial, given the need to utilise scarce resources as effectively as possible. However, no framework exists for assessing and comparing different CSA research investments. Several aspects make it challenging to prioritise CSA research, including its multi-dimensional nature (productivity, adaptation and mitigation), the uncertainty surrounding many climate impacts, and the scale and temporal dependencies that may affect the benefits and costs of CSA adoption. Here we propose a framework for prioritising agricultural research investments across scales and review different approaches to setting priorities among agricultural research projects. Many priority-setting case studies address the short- to medium-term and at relatively local scales. We suggest that a mix of actions that span spatial and temporal time scales is needed to be adaptive to a changing climate, address immediate problems and create enabling conditions for enduring change. |
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Thornton, P.K. Whitbread, A. Baedeker, T. Cairns, J.E. Claessens, L. Baethgen, W. Bunn, C. Friedmann, M. Giller, K.E. Herrero, M. Howden, M. Kilcline, K. Nangia, V. Ramirez Villegas, J. Kumar, Shalander West, P.C. Keating, B. |
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Thornton, P.K. Whitbread, A. Baedeker, T. Cairns, J.E. Claessens, L. Baethgen, W. Bunn, C. Friedmann, M. Giller, K.E. Herrero, M. Howden, M. Kilcline, K. Nangia, V. Ramirez Villegas, J. Kumar, Shalander West, P.C. Keating, B. |
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