Governance & Institutions Across Scales
in Climate Resilient Food Systems
Wiebke Förch, Philip Thornton, Ioannis Vasileiou
9-11 September 2014, Brussels

Outline
 CCAFS Flagship Policies and institutions for climate-resilient food systems
overview
 Workshop overview
 Boundaries
 Expected outputs

CCAFS Flagship Policies and institutions for
climate-resilient food systems
Vision
National, regional and global policies and institutions enable equitable food
systems that are resilient to a variable and changing climate.
Targets (Outcomes)
• By 2025, 20 national/subnational jurisdictions increased their equitable
institutional investment in climate smart food system.
• By 2019, 15 equitable national/subnational food system policies enacted
that take into consideration climate smart practices and strategies.
• By 2019, 10 regional/global organisations that inform their equitable
institutional investments in climate-smart food systems using CCAFS
outputs.

Flagship 4 Outcome 2025
Policies and institutions at different scales enable equitable food systems that are resilient to a variable and changing climate
INDICATOR 1: # of equitable national/subnational food system policies
enacted that take into consideration climate smart practices and
strategies; Target: 15 (WA: 2, EA: 2, LAM: 3, SA: 3, SEA: 4, Global: 0)
WA’s FP4 2019
Outcome
Statement
National decision
makers start
investing in policies
and institutions that
take into
consideration CSA
practices and
strategies
FP4 2019 Outcome #2
Appropriately directed institutional investment of Regional/ global
organisations (e.g. IFAD, WB, FAO, UNFCCC) based on national/regional
engagement to learn about local climate smart food system priorities
FP4 2019 Outcome #1
National/sub-national jurisdictions enact equitable food system policies and
increase institutional investment that take into consideration climate smart
practices/strategies, better articulated among themselves and in collaboration
with private sector, civil society and researchers informed by CCAFS decision
support tools
EA’s FP4 2019
Outcome Statement
National ministries of
agriculture, environment,
and parliamentarians are
collaborating to make
evidence informed policies
for increased investments
in climate resilient food
systems
INDICATOR: # of regional/global organisations that inform their
equitable institutional investments in climate smart food systems
using CCAFS outputs; Target: 10
(WA: 1, EA: ?, LAM: 2, SA: 0, SEA: 4, Global: 3)
LAM’s FP4 2019
Outcome Statement
National jurisdictions
design and enact food
system policies and
strategies to support
national policy and global
climate change
negotiations and together
with private institutions
develop NAPs with their
respective investment
plans using CCAFS data and
tools
SA’s FP4 2019
Outcome
Statement
National/subnational
jurisdictions develop
CSA policies and
programs, and
strengthen related
institutions based on
evidence provided by
CCAFS science
SEA’s FP4 2019
Outcome Statement
Policy makers enhancing
the design, investment
decisions,
implementation and M&E
of food system and
climate change policies
through a transparent,
coordinative and
consultative mode from
local to national level
EA’s FP4 2019
Outcome Statement
African Group of
Negotiators, UNFCCC
Focal Points are using
scientific evidence to
effectively articulate the
African position on
agriculture and climate
change issues, reflecting
also in current and
emerging global
agreements
INDICATOR: # of national/subnational jurisdictions that increased their equitable institutional investments in climate smart
food systems
TARGET 2025 FP4: 20
WA contribution: 2
EA contribution: 2 SEA contribution: 4 + 4 EA contribution: TBC
+ 1
LAM contribution: 3
+ 2
SA contribution:
3

FS4 MOG 7 - Syntheses of supra-national
governance mechanisms/systems, taking into
account social differentiation and cross-scale
linkages, as well as governance of transformation
and climate finance
FS4 MOG 8 - Effective and equitable engagement
of international organisations with
national/regional partners and vice versa to
influence global policies and strengthened
capacities to formulate and represent local
priorities in global fora
FS4 MOG 9 - Evaluation of engagement
processes/tools, identified innovative processes
to ensure effective policy mechanisms
FS4 SEA MOG 10 - Evidence base on social
learning approaches to outscale climate resilient
outcomes and frameworks for enhanced decision
making targeting socially differentiated and
vulnerable populations.
FS4 SEA MOG 11 - Improved regional/global
investment choices through appropriately
contextualised priority setting, drawing on global
foresight (linking climate, emissions, GDP and
population scenarios) and socio-economic
regional scenarios.
FS4 MOG 1 - Improved national development
planning processes, including policy
(re)formulation, implementation and M&E
FS4 MOG 2 - Policy and stakeholder analyses,
including policy processes, mechanisms and
recommendations
FS4 MOG 3 - Stakeholder engagement to
ensure demand-led research, e.g. innovation
platforms, learning alliances and science-policy
dialogues
FS4 MOG 4 - Tradeoff analyses to identify
locally appropriate, cost effective adaptation
and mitigation options throughout the food
system and national investment priorities
amongst public sectors
FS4 MOG 5 - Participatory scenarios including
downscaling of global/regional models,
upscaling of household/landscape models and
multisectoral investment options
Flagship 4 Outcome 2025
Policies and institutions at different scales enable equitable food systems that are resilient to a variable and changing climate
FP4 2019 Outcome #2
Appropriately directed institutional investment of Regional/global
organisations (e.g. IFAD, WB, FAO, UNFCCC) based on national/regional
engagement to learn about local climate smart food system priorities
FP4 2019 Outcome #1
National/sub-national jurisdictions enact equitable food system policies and
increase institutional investment that take into consideration climate smart
practices/strategies, better articulated among themselves and in collaboration
with private sector, civil society and researchers informed by CCAFS decision
support tools
FS4 MOG 6 - Foresight on alternative
development and investment pathways for
policy formulation, including food access and
utilisation scenarios; foresight capacity
strengthened
EA
LA
M
SA
SEA
WA

How might FP4 have impact?
 Need an enabling institutional environment if millions of farmers are to
practise climate smart agriculture
 Food system policies must address CC impacts and adaptation options;
CC policies must address the ag sector and food security
 Policies must reduce inequity and the socially disadvantaged
 Adaptation will need widespread behavioural changes
 FP4 will address formal / informal strategies and mechanisms, norms and
procedures (private sector organizations, NGOs, governance systems)
 Appropriately channelled international climate finance and global
institutional investment in CSA can help overcome adoption constraints

Flagship 4 products
1. Data, models and scenarios to understand the impact of climate
change on agriculture
2. Decision support tools for targeting policy development and
making investment choices in food systems from national to global
level
3. Analysis of strengths and weaknesses of current and emerging
policy with pilot policy intervention case studies conducted with
national partners, paying attention to social differentiation and
gender issues
4. Analysis and experimentation concerning novel decision-making
processes, up-scaling and cross-scale methodologies, policy making
networks, platforms, visioning, and capacity strengthening: novel
methods to bridge the science-policy divide

FP4 regional priorities (so far)
• Mainstream adaptation strategies into national policies, agricultural development
plans, and key regional agricultural-CC processes (EA, LAM, SA, WA)
• Learning alliances and national exchange platforms to support co-generation of
knowledge, enhance science-policy dialogue, promote evidence-based policy
outcomes, social learning (EA, WA, LAM)
• Tools, case studies for food security planning including crop yield forecasting (SA,
WA)
• Tools, case studies to inform decision making on investments in CSA technologies
and practices (LAM, SA, EA, WA)
• Participatory scenarios developed for ag and food security and priority setting in
the context of climate change to inform national regional plans (EA, WA, SA, SEA,
LAM)
• National / regional case studies on the science-policy-practice interface in climate
change adaptation (WA, EA, LAM)

FP4 global priorities (so far)
• Integrated assessment modelling, model intercomparison,
tool/methods development - IFPRI, IIASA, others
• Global policy & engagement, capacity strengthening – CCAFS
(UNFCCC, IFAD), Bioversity (ITPGRFA-CBD/NP)
• Governance and institutions across scales
• Studies on the demand side of food production (Food Climate
Research Network, ECI, CSIRO, FAO, others)
• Foresight and scenarios (IFPRI-PIM, ECI, WU, GFAR, others)
• Social learning evidence base (IIED, ILRI, CSIRO, CARIAA, others)

Governance and institutions across scales
• Workshop overview
• Governance and institutions at macro scales not sufficient focus in
AR4D
• Take stock of research field and key institutions
• 2 background papers, workshop
• Contribute towards portfolio development for CCAFS Phase 2
• Objectives
• Identify key research areas on governance and institutions across
scales in climate resilient food systems for the coming years
• Considering a research for development outcomes focus what are
the research gaps (e.g. data, topics, tools, approaches) that could be
meaningfully addressed
• Identify opportunities for CCAFS to form new partnerships and
approaches to address priority research gaps identified

Boundaries
• Research priorities focusing on CC and food systems
• Governance and institutions not to mean governments and policies:
• Institutions: structures, mechanisms, formal or informal rules that
govern social interactions
• Governance: formal/informal processes, mechanisms contributing to
frameworks, rules, actions that produce, maintain, regulate a
particular system
• National to global levels and across scales - not local, unless as part of
cross-scale (CCAFS regions EA, WA, SA, SEA, LAM)
• Outcome focused – changed institutions, policies, practices
• Funding: limited resources available, importance of leveraging
• Let’s not get into definitions …

Expected workshop outputs
• Well-defined research areas on governance and institutions in climate
resilient food systems for the coming years
• Areas where CCAFS and partners could make a meaningful contribution,
and a way forward
• Potential (new) strategic partnerships

What does CCAFS bring?
• Long-term program
• Global brand to help leverage funding
• Access to CGIAR expertise (all 15 Centres) – research, tools,
models, impact assessment, …
• Global reach of CGIAR – scalability, regions, comparability,
partners & linkages, facilities
• CCAFS as a testbed for new approaches
• CGIAR commitment to producing international public goods, not
serving a specific agenda