Wei Zhang POLICY SEMINAR Ideas for confronting climate change today OCT 14, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 10:45 AM EDT

1. Engaging stakeholders:
Landscape management for
confronting climate change
IFPRI Virtual Policy Seminar - Ideas for confronting climate change today
Wei Zhang
Senior Research Fellow, Environment & Production Technology Division
International Food Policy Research Institute
October 14, 2021

2. Many climate actions require landscape approach and
coordination and collective actions
▪ Implications:
o Recognize the importance of
collective action and
coordination across groups for
successful mitigation and
adaptation strategies
o Ensure that tenure insecurity
does not exclude the poor from
mitigation and adaptation
strategies
o Consider various levels of
governance in designing and
choosing mitigation and
adaptation strategies
Meinzen-Dick et al. 2010. The role of collective action and property
rights in climate change strategies. CAPRi Policy Brief 7. Washington,
D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

3. Integrated landscape approaches
▪ Key aspects of an effective
landscape approach
o Evaluate progress
o Establish good governance
o Evolve from panacea solutions
o Engage multiple stakeholders
o Embrace dynamic processes
▪ Barriers to effective implementation
o Time lags
o Terminology confusion
o Operating silos
o Internal/external engagement
o Monitoring
Reed et al. 2016. Integrated landscape approaches to managing social and environmental issues in the tropics: learning from the past to guide the
future. Global Change Biology.

4. Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) for landscape-level coordination
▪ MSPs:
o Sustained, intentionally created, long-term spaces
to promote dialogue, deliberation and collaborative
action among social groups and organizations
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affected
o Bridge civil society, government, and private sector
actors
o Can provide coordination and space for social
learning
▪ Not a panacea: Not all will engage readily or equitably
o Recognizing power inequalities & barriers to
inclusion is key for effective knowledge-sharing and
dialogue
o Procedural rules and facilitation strategies can help
mediate power relations
o Balance role of government actors to lend
legitimacy and enable follow-up action, without
controlling the process
Photo credit: Diana Suhardiman
Ratner et al. (Under review). Multi-stakeholder platforms for natural resource
governance: Lessons from eight landscape-level cases.

5. Policy priorities
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government alone: need landscape-level approaches that involve communities
o Importance of inter-village multi-stakeholder platforms to spark conservation
and governance action plans at a landscape level (clustered around
watersheds, forest patches or rangelands)
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stakeholder engagement in landscape management
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o Devolution policies can encourage state agencies to engage with
communities and private sector
o Invest in MSPs, including strengthening community and government
capacity to engage