Assessment of the facilitation process of establishing a living lab for co-creating locally-led climate action in Caquetá/Colombia

One of the key ambitions of the CGIAR Climate Action Program is to support structures that enable affected people to take ownership of food system innovation processes and to determine their goals, strategies, and modalities. To this end, the program team adopts and expands the concept of living lab...

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Main Authors: Falk, Thomas, Rodríguez, Luz A., Vanegas, Martha, Nehring, Ryan, Calle, Johana, Lopez, Maria
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179912
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author Falk, Thomas
Rodríguez, Luz A.
Vanegas, Martha
Nehring, Ryan
Calle, Johana
Lopez, Maria
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Falk, Thomas
Lopez, Maria
Nehring, Ryan
Rodríguez, Luz A.
Vanegas, Martha
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Vanegas, Martha
Nehring, Ryan
Calle, Johana
Lopez, Maria
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description One of the key ambitions of the CGIAR Climate Action Program is to support structures that enable affected people to take ownership of food system innovation processes and to determine their goals, strategies, and modalities. To this end, the program team adopts and expands the concept of living labs, understood as social spaces - virtual or physical - where stakeholders co-develop new ways of thinking and acting to transform collaboration and practices. In the Department of Caquetá, within the Colombian Amazon, the program supports a place-based and community-led living lab focused on inclusion, environmental justice, and peacebuilding—an initiative participants have termed the “Participatory Rural Innovation Lab: Towards a Sustainable Territory” (PRIL). This paper presents the results of an assessment of the early dynamics in PRIL’s development in light of the normative principles of the living lab approach. Moreover, it examines whether significant power and agency imbalances exist and to what extent contextual factors influence the process.
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spelling CGSpace1799122026-01-16T02:06:41Z Assessment of the facilitation process of establishing a living lab for co-creating locally-led climate action in Caquetá/Colombia Falk, Thomas Rodríguez, Luz A. Vanegas, Martha Nehring, Ryan Calle, Johana Lopez, Maria capacity building living labs local climate action locally-led action facilitation One of the key ambitions of the CGIAR Climate Action Program is to support structures that enable affected people to take ownership of food system innovation processes and to determine their goals, strategies, and modalities. To this end, the program team adopts and expands the concept of living labs, understood as social spaces - virtual or physical - where stakeholders co-develop new ways of thinking and acting to transform collaboration and practices. In the Department of Caquetá, within the Colombian Amazon, the program supports a place-based and community-led living lab focused on inclusion, environmental justice, and peacebuilding—an initiative participants have termed the “Participatory Rural Innovation Lab: Towards a Sustainable Territory” (PRIL). This paper presents the results of an assessment of the early dynamics in PRIL’s development in light of the normative principles of the living lab approach. Moreover, it examines whether significant power and agency imbalances exist and to what extent contextual factors influence the process. 2025-12-31 2026-01-15T15:28:02Z 2026-01-15T15:28:02Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179912 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Falk, Thomas; Rodríguez, Luz A.; Vanegas, Martha; Nehring, Ryan; Calle, Johana; and Lopez, Maria. 2025. Assessment of the facilitation process of establishing a living lab for co-creating locally-led climate action in Caquetá/Colombia. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179912
spellingShingle capacity building
living labs
local climate action
locally-led action
facilitation
Falk, Thomas
Rodríguez, Luz A.
Vanegas, Martha
Nehring, Ryan
Calle, Johana
Lopez, Maria
Assessment of the facilitation process of establishing a living lab for co-creating locally-led climate action in Caquetá/Colombia
title Assessment of the facilitation process of establishing a living lab for co-creating locally-led climate action in Caquetá/Colombia
title_full Assessment of the facilitation process of establishing a living lab for co-creating locally-led climate action in Caquetá/Colombia
title_fullStr Assessment of the facilitation process of establishing a living lab for co-creating locally-led climate action in Caquetá/Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of the facilitation process of establishing a living lab for co-creating locally-led climate action in Caquetá/Colombia
title_short Assessment of the facilitation process of establishing a living lab for co-creating locally-led climate action in Caquetá/Colombia
title_sort assessment of the facilitation process of establishing a living lab for co creating locally led climate action in caqueta colombia
topic capacity building
living labs
local climate action
locally-led action
facilitation
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179912
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