FARMS4Biodiversity WP4: Innovative Platforms and Stakeholder Engagement
Leads: Sekhar Nagothu (Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research)
Concept: Multi-Actor Platforms bring diverse stakeholders together in a formal process of interactive learning, sharing, empowerment, and collaborative governance to discuss opportunities and obstacles to a desired set of goals. Emerging research suggests that by building trust and dialogue among diverse stakeholders with interconnected but potentially divergent interests or viewpoints, Multi-Actor Platforms promote resilience and innovation in the face of risk, complexity, and uncertainty.
Objective: To explore new, innovative institutional and policy frameworks to enable use of agroecological practices to reduce biodiversity loss, sustain ecosystem services and improve climate change adaptation.
Methodology/Approach:
Convene a Multi-Actor Platform including
representatives from Malawi’s National Biodiversity Steering Committee,
National Council on Environment, Technical Committee on the Environment,
Agriculture Department Divisions, District Agriculture Committee, District
Agriculture Development Offices, and other relevant committees as well as local
farmers and traditional authorities.
Conduct multi-actor analysis at the early stage
of the project to design an operational structure, to characterize and/or
classify the actors, their roles, and the institutional opportunities and
constraints they will bring to the Multi-Actor Platform.
Organize bi-annual Multi-Actor Platform dialogue
meetings, where we will share results, solicit feedback, and devise strategies
to further disseminate project findings.
Expected Results and Use:
One established and operational Multi-Actor
Platform
Institutional and policy frameworks on the use
of agroecological practices to reduce biodiversity loss and sustain ecosystem
services.
A police brief with inputs from WP3 and
Multi-Actor Platform members.
Lizzie Shumba joined SFHC in 2003 and since then has contributed much to our efforts and to the success of SFHC. The Agroecology and Livelihood Collaborative (ALC) from the University of Vermont conducted an interview with Lizzie to… Read More
The SFHC team and the communities we work with play a crucial role in helping us reach our goals of promoting sustainability, health, and equity, so we love to share the voices of the wonderful people that make… Read More
Exciting news: new research from our SFHC team has just been published! This research is centered around examining crop diversity and its effect on food security and women’s diet quality through an intervention in Malawi. As always, we… Read More
We are proud to share new research from our team within the last year! Both works come from our FARMS for Biodiversity Project, and they include a research approach to transdisciplinary agroecology and an assessment of local views… Read More
FARMS4Biodiversity WP4: Innovative Platforms and Stakeholder Engagement
Leads: Sekhar Nagothu (Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research)
Concept: Multi-Actor Platforms bring diverse stakeholders together in a formal process of interactive learning, sharing, empowerment, and collaborative governance to discuss opportunities and obstacles to a desired set of goals. Emerging research suggests that by building trust and dialogue among diverse stakeholders with interconnected but potentially divergent interests or viewpoints, Multi-Actor Platforms promote resilience and innovation in the face of risk, complexity, and uncertainty.
Objective: To explore new, innovative institutional and policy frameworks to enable use of agroecological practices to reduce biodiversity loss, sustain ecosystem services and improve climate change adaptation.
Methodology/Approach:
Expected Results and Use:
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