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1 Stock, R.; Vij, S.; Ishtiaque, A. 2021. Powering and puzzling: climate change adaptation policies in Bangladesh and India. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23(2):2314-2336. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-00676-3]

Climate change adaptation ; Policy making ; Political aspects ; Vulnerability ; Strategies ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Government agencies ; Farmers ; Participation ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects / South Asia / India / Bangladesh / Gujarat / New Delhi / Dhaka

(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050224)

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South Asia is a region uniquely vulnerable to climate-related impacts. Climate change adaptation in India and Bangladesh evolves using powering and puzzling approaches by policy actors. We seek to answer the question: how do powering and puzzling approaches influence the climate change adaptation policy design and implementation processes in Bangladesh and India? We adopted two strategies to collect and analyze data: semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis. We found that adaptation policymaking is largely top-down, amenable to techno-managerial solutions, and not inclusive of marginalized actors. In Bangladesh, power interplays among ministerial agencies impair the policy implementation process and undermine the success of puzzling. Local-scale agencies do not have enough authority or power to influence the overall implementation processes occurring at higher scales of governance. The powering of different actors in Bangladesh is visible through a duality of mandates and a lack of integration of climate adaptation strategies in different government ministries. The powering aspect of India’s various adaptation policies is the lack of collective puzzling around the question of differentiated vulnerability by axes of social difference. Paradoxically, India has a puzzling approach of hiding behind the poor in international negotiations. Moving forward, both countries should strive to have more inclusive and equitable adaptation policymaking processes that enable the participation of marginalized populations and represent their anxieties and aspirations. Identifying policy-relevant insights from South Asia using the powering and puzzling approaches can foster adaptation policy processes that facilitate empowerment, the missing piece of the adaptation policymaking puzzle.

2 Gardezi, M.; Michael, S.; Stock, R.; Vij, S.; Ogunyiola, A.; Ishtiaque, A. 2022. Prioritizing climate-smart agriculture: an organizational and temporal review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 13(2):e755. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.755]

Climate-smart agriculture ; International organizations ; Climate change adaptation ; Mitigation ; Vulnerability ; Resilience ; Weather ; Gender ; Research ; Food security ; Sustainable development ; World Bank ; FAO ; IFAD ; CGIAR ; Smallholders ; Farming systems ; Models

(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051046)

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Extant systematic literature reviews on the topic of climate smart agriculture (CSA) have mainly focused on two issues: reviewing framing of the CSA discourse in the academic and policy literature; and policy initiatives in the Global South that enhance the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices. Yet, there is little systematic investigation into how international organizations can help smallholder farmers manage agricultural systems to respond to climate change. Analyzing these organization's priorities and highlighting their knowledge gaps are crucial for designing future pathways of CSA. We intend to use this article to identify overarching CSA themes that can guide large international organizations to focus their CSA agenda in the hope of achieving goals associated with food security and sustainable intensification. We specifically ask the following question: How have the key CSA topics and themes emerged in the gray literature of international organizations between 2010 and 2020? We adopted a topic modeling approach to identify how six international organizations engaged with several topics related to CSA. Following the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) approach, we identified eight topics in the documents, representing four overarching themes: gender research, weather and climate, CSA management and food security. We found that there is insufficient discussion on the issues relating to governance measures and gender mainstreaming, with a larger focus on techno-managerial measures of CSA. We conclude that research and training related to CSA must offer opportunities for marginalized and disproportionately vulnerable populations to participate and raise their voices and share innovative ideas at different levels of governance.