Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture Through Interdisciplinary Research-for Development: Learning from South and Southeast Asia’s Rice-Based Systems In book

"Climate change will have a largely detrimental impact on the agricultural sector. Reduced yields will lead to greater food insecurity and a rise in food prices. In response, researchers have developed agricultural technologies and practices, commonly known as climate-smart agriculture (CSA). Scalin...

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Autores principales: Hellin, Jonathan, Fisher, Eleanor, Balie, Jean, Sander, Björn Ole, Kohli, Ajay
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Springer 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116146
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author Hellin, Jonathan
Fisher, Eleanor
Balie, Jean
Sander, Björn Ole
Kohli, Ajay
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Fisher, Eleanor
Hellin, Jonathan
Kohli, Ajay
Sander, Björn Ole
author_facet Hellin, Jonathan
Fisher, Eleanor
Balie, Jean
Sander, Björn Ole
Kohli, Ajay
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description "Climate change will have a largely detrimental impact on the agricultural sector. Reduced yields will lead to greater food insecurity and a rise in food prices. In response, researchers have developed agricultural technologies and practices, commonly known as climate-smart agriculture (CSA). Scaling or large-scale farmer uptake of CSA is often seen as the responsibility of development practitioners. This, however, encourages a false dichotomy between knowledge generation through “research” and practice-based “scaling.” Such binary thinking poses two dangers. Firstly, when faced with donors’ understandable wish to see impact on the ground, agricultural research organizations succumb to “mission drift” and engage in “development work,” for which they have little comparative advantage. Secondly, because scaling is seen as a “development” as opposed to “research” issue, the contribution that research can make to understanding effective scaling is overlooked. We propose that agricultural research-for-development (AR4D) can contribute more to scaling by conceptualizing the process as a multifaceted one that catalyzes three interconnected and complimentary pathways: technology development, capacity development, and policy influence, each overseen by interdisciplinary research teams. We use our experience from rice based systems in South and Southeast Asia to illustrate how a combination of all three pathways is required to enhance scaling of CSA."
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spelling CGSpace1161462025-08-15T13:22:20Z Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture Through Interdisciplinary Research-for Development: Learning from South and Southeast Asia’s Rice-Based Systems In book Hellin, Jonathan Fisher, Eleanor Balie, Jean Sander, Björn Ole Kohli, Ajay agriculture climate-smart agriculture climate change food security "Climate change will have a largely detrimental impact on the agricultural sector. Reduced yields will lead to greater food insecurity and a rise in food prices. In response, researchers have developed agricultural technologies and practices, commonly known as climate-smart agriculture (CSA). Scaling or large-scale farmer uptake of CSA is often seen as the responsibility of development practitioners. This, however, encourages a false dichotomy between knowledge generation through “research” and practice-based “scaling.” Such binary thinking poses two dangers. Firstly, when faced with donors’ understandable wish to see impact on the ground, agricultural research organizations succumb to “mission drift” and engage in “development work,” for which they have little comparative advantage. Secondly, because scaling is seen as a “development” as opposed to “research” issue, the contribution that research can make to understanding effective scaling is overlooked. We propose that agricultural research-for-development (AR4D) can contribute more to scaling by conceptualizing the process as a multifaceted one that catalyzes three interconnected and complimentary pathways: technology development, capacity development, and policy influence, each overseen by interdisciplinary research teams. We use our experience from rice based systems in South and Southeast Asia to illustrate how a combination of all three pathways is required to enhance scaling of CSA." 2021 2021-11-18T11:09:14Z 2021-11-18T11:09:14Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116146 en Limited Access Springer Hellin J, Fisher E, Balié J, Sander BO, Kohli A. 2020. Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture Through Interdisciplinary Research-for- Development: Learning from South and Southeast Asia's Rice-Based Systems. In: Handbook of Climate Change Management 1-16p.
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climate-smart agriculture
climate change
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Fisher, Eleanor
Balie, Jean
Sander, Björn Ole
Kohli, Ajay
Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture Through Interdisciplinary Research-for Development: Learning from South and Southeast Asia’s Rice-Based Systems In book
title Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture Through Interdisciplinary Research-for Development: Learning from South and Southeast Asia’s Rice-Based Systems In book
title_full Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture Through Interdisciplinary Research-for Development: Learning from South and Southeast Asia’s Rice-Based Systems In book
title_fullStr Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture Through Interdisciplinary Research-for Development: Learning from South and Southeast Asia’s Rice-Based Systems In book
title_full_unstemmed Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture Through Interdisciplinary Research-for Development: Learning from South and Southeast Asia’s Rice-Based Systems In book
title_short Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture Through Interdisciplinary Research-for Development: Learning from South and Southeast Asia’s Rice-Based Systems In book
title_sort scaling climate smart agriculture through interdisciplinary research for development learning from south and southeast asia s rice based systems in book
topic agriculture
climate-smart agriculture
climate change
food security
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116146
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