This document outlines strategies for linking knowledge with action to address climate change, agriculture, and food security issues. It discusses engaging stakeholders, improving communication, building capacity, addressing gender issues, and testing approaches through action research with partners. The goal is to enhance the salience, credibility and legitimacy of information produced to better inform decision-making. Examples provided span boundaries from local to national to regional and international levels through activities like vulnerability assessments, policy briefings, training programs, and knowledge sharing platforms.

1. CRP7 - Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityTheme 4.1, Linking Knowledge with ActionMT meeting, Bonn, June 2011

2. Theme 4.1 Linking Knowledge with Action Strategy‘Efforts to mobilize science and technology for sustainability are more likely to be effective when they manage boundaries between knowledge and action in ways that simultaneously enhance the salience, credibility and legitimacy of the information they produce’ (Cash et al. 1990)

3. Linking K with A principlesIts ‘with’ and not ‘to’ because it’s a 2-way linkFocus on problem solving and involve users in problem definition and co-creation of solutionsPractitioners and others as full partners (NGOs, Govt’s, communities, private sector)Need strategies, approaches to span boundaries between partners with very different incentivesBuild capacity to innovate, support institutional changeRecognize and develop strategies to manage asymmetries of power and include marginalized groupsLearning systems rather than knowledge systems

4. Linking K with A StrategiesEngagement – CCAFS as a trusted partnerCommunication – more effective use of ICT’s, how best to communicate CC-Ag-FS issues at different levels and influence decision makersCapacity Building – CCAFS as an ‘incubator’Gender – targeted efforts and investments neededSo, in a sentence:Theme 4.1’s strategy is to continue to test tools and approaches and learn and apply lessons in each of these areas, and to develop new joint action research with partners where there are gaps (e.g. communicating CC with smallholders).

5. Theme 4 Integration for Decision Making Impact PathwayCRP7 ImpactsOutcomesOutputsStrategies Policy champions

6. Building local, regional capacity for scenario and vulnerability assessments

7. Strategic policy-maker meetings

8. Future scenarios visualizations