Co-designing Climate-Smart Farming Systems With Local Stakeholders: A Methodological Framework for Achieving Large-Scale Change

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dc.contributorWollenberg, Eva K
dc.creatorAndrieu, Nadine
dc.creatorHowland, Fanny C.
dc.creatorAcosta-Alba, Ivonne
dc.creatorLe Coq, Jean-François
dc.creatorOsorio-Garcia, Ana Milena
dc.creatorMartínez Barón, Deissy
dc.creatorGamba-Trimiño, Catherine
dc.creatorLoboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
dc.creatorChía, Eduardo
dc.date2019-05-24
dc.date2019-05-27T20:04:43Z
dc.date2019-05-27T20:04:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:35:01Z
dc.descriptionThe literature is increasing on how to prioritize climate-smart options with stakeholders but relatively few examples exist on how to co-design climate-smart farming systems with them, in particular with smallholder farmers. This article presents a methodological framework to co-design climate-smart farming systems with local stakeholders (farmers, scientists, NGOs) so that large-scale change can be achieved. This framework is based on the lessons learned during a research project conducted in Honduras and Colombia from 2015 to 2017. Seven phases are suggested to engage a process of co-conception of climate-smart farming systems that might enable implementation at scale: (1) “exploration of the initial situation,” which identifies local stakeholders potentially interested in being involved in the process, existing farming systems, and specific constraints to the implementation of climate-smart agriculture (CSA); (2) “co-definition of an innovation platform,” which defines the structure and the rules of functioning for a platform favoring the involvement of local stakeholders in the process; (3) “shared diagnosis,” which defines the main challenges to be solved by the innovation platform; (4) “identification and ex ante assessment of new farming systems,” which assess the potential performances of solutions prioritized by the members of the innovation platform under CSA pillars; (5) “experimentation,” which tests the prioritized solutions on-farm; (6) “assessment of the co-design process of climate-smart farming systems,” which validates the ability of the process to reach its initial objectives, particularly in terms of new farming systems but also in terms of capacity building; and (7) “definition of strategies for scaling up/out,” which addresses the scaling of the co-design process. For each phase, specific tools or methodologies are used: focus groups, social network analysis, theory of change, life-cycle assessment, and on-farm experiments. Each phase is illustrated with results obtained in Colombia or Honduras.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/101397
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/82378
dc.languageen
dc.publisherFrontiers Media
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAndrieu N, Howland F, Acosta-Alba I, Le Coq J-F, Osorio-Garcia AM, Martinez-Baron D, Gamba-Trimiño C, Loboguerrero AM, Chia E. 2019. Co-designing Climate-Smart Farming Systems With Local Stakeholders: A Methodological Framework for Achieving Large-Scale Change. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 3:37.
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectclimate-smart agriculture
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectfarming systems
dc.titleCo-designing Climate-Smart Farming Systems With Local Stakeholders: A Methodological Framework for Achieving Large-Scale Change
dc.typeJournal Article

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