CCAFS Science Meeting 2013
Achieving more impact through connecting, engaging and learning with communities and other key actors
The annual science meeting for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) provides an opportunity to discuss exciting and unexplored avenues to sharpen our science and ensure it is adopted and acted upon. The focus of the 2013 meeting is on achieving more impact through connecting, engaging and learning with communities and other key actors. Social learning approaches and participatory work build upon a long tradition within CGIAR.
Building on this legacy and adapting it to the complex challenges that CCAFS faces can highlight alternative pathways to successful and applied research for development.
The annual science meeting for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will focus on achieving more impact through connecting, engaging and learning with communities and other key actors. There is much untapped potential in CGIAR and beyond to join other actors and partners to use research more effectively to inform and affect food security in the light of climate change. Part of that potential lies in connecting and engaging with different stakeholders in innovative ways that help us democratize and co-create relevant, high-quality science that has practical applications and can directly contribute to development outcomes.
Social learning approaches and participatory work build upon a long tradition within CGIAR. Building on this legacy and adapting it to the complex challenges that CCAFS faces can highlight alternative pathways to successful and applied research for development. The objectives of the meeting are:
- To explore innovative new partnerships that create synergies to improve the potential development impact of climate change and agricultural research;
- To showcase past and on-going participatory work and experiences from CGIAR;
- To develop ways in which learning, participatory and related approaches could inform and improve current and future CCAFS work; and
- To discuss how these approaches can help us to scale up, accelerate impact and improve delivery of outcomes.
The aim is to strengthen our collective understanding of some ‘boundary’ opportunities and how we can take advantage of them to be even more relevant and engaged in climate change and food security conversations and activities around the world.
We will be sharing updates from the event on this page and on twitter (follow #2013CCSL)
Learn more:
Working Paper Climate change communication and social learning - Review and strategy development for CCAFS by Blane Harvey, Jonathan Ensor, Liz Carlile, Ben Garside, Zachary Patterson, Lars Otto Naess, October 2012