Presentation held by Working Group 3 at the Governance & Institutions Across Scales in Climate Resilient Food Systems Brussels Workshop 9-11 Sept 2014 for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Flagship 4.

1. Group 3 Breakout Report
Polly E., Leslie L., Kaisa K., Lance R.,
Hallie E.

2. Mechanisms of Influence
(Levers, Conditions)
Narratives
& Framings
Governance Arrangements
Strategies
Implementation
Farm-level outcomes
(e.g., climate smart ag)
Learning?

3. Interests Ideas
Narratives & Framings Mechanisms of Influence
Assets/ $$ Information
Politics
Social movements &
coalitions Knowledge
Mobilization & networks
Governance Arrangements
Public-private
partnerships
Market structures
State policy &
institutional organization Donors
Strategies
Investments Knowledge/ Ideas
Formal institutions Informal institutions
Information
Implementation
Farm-level outcomes
(e.g., climate smart ag)
Learning?
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4. Research Questions/ Gaps
1. How do particular conditions and levers lead to specific forms of
governance arrangements?
 What are the conditions and levers for creating appropriate or desirable
governance arrangements?
2. What strategies are associated with which governance arrangements and
why?
3. What governance arrangements and associated strategies work best for
what CRA goals? Why?
4. What governance arrangements are most conducive to adaptive
learning?
 How does information and knowledge production about governance &
institutions affect change in governing organizations? (particularly relevant for
CGIAR)
 How do organizations/ governance actors learn and adapt, or not?
 How do they learn from experience of farmers and incorporate insights into
governance arrangements? [a lot already known about this]
5. What are the indicators of good enough governance for climate
resilient agriculture/ food systems?

5. Methods and Approaches
• Narratives/ Framing
– STEPS Pathways approach
– Multi-criteria Decision Mapping
– Discourse analysis
– Q analysis
• Conditions, levers, mechanisms of
influence on governance:
– QCA
– Econometrics/ statistical
modeling
– New Institutional Economics
– Transitions management (re:
power analysis)
• Governance arrangements and
strategies
– IAD
– Stakeholder analysis (i.e., players,
influence, interest mapping)
– Institutional mapping
– Social Network analysis
• Indicators of good governance
– Meta analysis
– MCDA/ expert consultation
– Statistical correlations of good
governance indicators with food
security/ climate adaptations
• (Evidence of) Learning
– Scenario analysis (incl. Backcasting)
– Social learning analysis

6. Possible Partnerships
• FAO – scenario analysis, new institutional economics,
indicator development
• STEPS center – Framing/ narratives; multicriteria
mapping
• IAD scholars and organizations
• “Political-economy of food system” scholars and
institutions (i.e., Wageningen U?; Cornell; …)
• Comparative politics (Compon network)
• Resilience Alliance (as source of research approach)
• IDGEC scholars (former IHDP node)
• MIT Poverty Lab