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1 Corner-Dolloff, C.; Aggarwal, P.; Forch, W.; Rodriguez, A.-M., L.; Rosenstock, T.; Girvetz, E.; Frid-Nielsen, S.; Lacombe, Guillaume; Millan, A. 2016. National planning. In Dinesh, D. (Ed). Adaptation measures in agricultural systems: messages to SBSTA 44 Agriculture Workshops. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) pp.19-28. (CCAFS Working Paper 145)
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2 DeClerck, F. A. J.; Jones. S. K.; Attwood, S.; Bossio, D.; Girvetz, E.; Chaplin-Kramer, B.; Enfors, E.; Fremier, A. K.; Gordon, L. J.; Kizito, F.; Noriega, I. L.; Matthews, N.; McCartney, Matthew; Meacham, M.; Noble, Andrew; Quintero, M.; Remans, S.; Soppe, R.; Willemen, L.; Wood, S. L. R.; Zhang, W. 2016. Agricultural ecosystems and their services: the vanguard of sustainability? Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 23:92-99. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2016.11.016]
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Sustainable Development Goals offer an opportunity to improve human well-being while conserving natural resources. Ecosystem services highlight human well-being benefits ecosystems, including agricultural ecosystems, provides. Whereas agricultural systems produce the majority of our food, they drive significant environmental degradation. This tension between development and environmental conservation objectives is not an immutable outcome as agricultural systems are simultaneously dependents, and providers of ecosystem services. Recognizing this duality allows integration of environmental and development objectives and leverages agricultural ecosystem services for achieving sustainability targets. We propose a framework to operationalize ecosystem services and resilience-based interventions in agricultural landscapes and call for renewed efforts to apply resilience-based approaches to landscape management challenges and for refocusing ecosystem service research on human well-being outcomes.
3 Williams, Timothy O.; Mul, Marloes; Cofie, Olufunke; Kinyangi, J.; Zougmore, R.; Wamukoya, G.; Nyasimi, M.; Mapfumo, P.; Speranza, C. I.; Amwata, D.; Frid-Nielsen, S.; Partey, S.; Girvetz, E.; Rosenstock, T.; Campbell, B. 2015. Climate smart agriculture in the African context. Background Paper. Paper presented at the Feeding Africa - An Action Plan for African Agricultural Transformation. Session 1: Unlocking Africa’s Agricultural Potentials for Transformation to Scale, Dakar, Senegal, 21-23 October 2015. 26p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048252)
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5 Hellin, J.; Amarnath, Giriraj; Challinor, A.; Fisher, E.; Girvetz, E.; Guo, Z.; Hodur, J.; Loboguerrero, A. M.; Pacillo, G.; Rose, S.; Schutz, T.; Valencia, L.; You, L. 2022. Transformative adaptation and implications for transdisciplinary climate change research. Environmental Research: Climate, 1(2):023001. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ac8b9d]
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The severity of the climate challenge requires a change in the climate response, from an incremental to a more far-reaching and radical transformative one. There is also a need to avoid maladaptation whereby responses to climate risk inadvertently reinforce vulnerability, exposure and risk for some sections of society. Innovative technological interventions are critical but enabling social, institutional and governance factors are the actual drivers of the transformative process. Bringing about this transformation requires inter- and transdisciplinary approaches, and the embracing of social equity. In this Perspective, we unpack what this means for agricultural research and, based on our collective experience, we map out a research agenda that weaves different research components into a holistic and transformative one. We do not offer best practice, but rather reflections on how agricultural research can more readily contribute to transformative adaptation, along with the personal and practical challenges of designing and implementing such an agenda.
6 Hanke-Louw, Nora; Shrestha, Manisha; Jacobs-Mata, Inga; Girvetz, E.. 2023. Ukama Ustawi Pause and Reflect report. Proceedings of the Ukama Ustawi Pause and Reflect Week, Johannesburg, South Africa, 6-10 February 2023. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa. 58p.
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The CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa (also known as Ukama Ustawi) Pause and Reflect Week was planned in line with the CGIAR Pause and Reflect guidelines, and the needs of the initiative. To achieve the objectives of reconnecting as a Ukama Ustawi Community of Spirit (CoS), critical reflection on Ukama Ustawi in 2022 and replan for 2023, the core team met for five days and invited the Ukama Ustawi CoS to join for five days in Magaliesburg, South Africa. Throughout the report, the speakers and participants are referred to by their first names. Generally, the atmosphere in Ukama Ustawi is cordial, fun, and respectful and allows for open, uninhibited, and critical discussions.
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