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producers across the world are beginning
to raise their voices to ensure that
agricultural research better meets their
needs and priorities. This briefing explains
how a series of farmer assessments and
citizens’ juries in West Africa has helped
farmers assess existing approaches and
articulate recommendations for policy and
practice to achieve their own vision of
agricultural research. In 2012, a high-level
policy dialogue between farmers and the
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
hopes to take this discussion to the next
level and develop a shared agenda that can
serve development and the public good.
n Online: http://pubs.iied.org/17122IIED.html
Southern voices on
climate policy choices:
analysis of and lessons
learned from civil
society advocacy on
climate change
l Hannah Reid, Gifty
Ampomah, María Isabel
Olazábal Prera, Golam
Rabbani and Shepard Zvigadza
IIED, 2012
This report provides an analysis of the
tools and tactics advocacy groups use to
influence policy responses to climate
change at international, regional, national
and sub-national levels. More than 20
climate networks and their member
organisations have contributed to the
report with their experiences of advocacy
on climate change, including over 70 case
studies from a wide range of countries –
including many of the poorest – in Africa,
Asia, Latin America and the Pacific.
These advocacy activities primarily target
national governments, but also
international and regional processes,
donors and the private sector.
Analyses and case studies show how
civil society plays key roles in pushing for
new laws, programmes, policies or
strategies on climate change, in holding
governments to account on their
commitments; in identifying the lack of
joined-up government responses to
climate change; and in ensuring that
national policy-making does not forget
the poor and vulnerable.
The report is the first joint product of
the Southern Voices Capacity Building
Programme, or for short: Southern Voices
on Climate Change. The executive
summary is available in English, Spanish
and French.
n Online: http://pubs.iied.org/10032IIED.html
Building climate
change adaptation on
community
experiences: lessons
from community-based
natural resource
management in
southern Africa
l Nyasha E. Chishakwe,
Laurel Murray, Muyeye Chambwera
IIED, 2012
This publication, produced in
collaboration with WWF Southern Africa,
looks at how community-based natural
resource management (CBNRM) can
inform and contribute to climate change
adaptation at the community level,
specifically to community-based
adaptation (CBA) to climate change. It
provides a framework for analysing the
two approaches at conceptual and
practical levels.
Using case studies from southern
Africa, the publication demonstrates the
synergies between CBA and CBNRM,
most important of which are the
adaptation co-benefits between the two.
While local incentives have driven
community action in CBNRM, it is the
evolution of an enabling environment in
the region, in the form of institutions,
policies, capacity and collaboration which
characterises the scaling up of CBNRM to
national and regional levels.
n Online: http://pubs.iied.org/10030IIED.html