A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape Management

McGonigle, Daniel F.; Nodari, Giulia Rota; Phillips, Robyn L.; Aynekulu, Ermias; Carmona, Natalia Estrada; Jones, Sarah K.; Koziell, Izabella; Luedeling, Eike; Remans, Roseline; Wiberg, D.; Whitney, Cory; Zhang, Wei

doi:10.3389/fsufs.2020.00013

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“…Effective consultations with local people are time-consuming and budget-intensive, so trade-offs exist as most projects have limited time and financial resources (Pham et al 2015 ). Further research could shed light on how such limitations could be overcome and particularly what role knowledge-brokering and boundary organizations could play in this respect (Turnhout et al 2013 ; Hering 2016 ; McGonigle et al 2020 ). There is also a need to consider research on how remote sensing analysis and participatory approaches can be combined to enhance the effectivity of both; with participatory approaches ensuring a firm contextual grounding of the findings and inclusive landscape governance, and remote sensing allowing for the validation of local spatial knowledge.…”

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Local Spatialized Knowledge of Threats to Forest Conservation in Ghana’s High Forest Zone

Somuah

Ros-Tonen

Baud

2021

Environmental Management

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Although deforestation rates are declining, protected forest areas remain under threat. While the importance of spatialized (‘mapped’) community knowledge for conservation planning is acknowledged in scientific literature, the integration of such knowledge in forest governance and conservation planning remains scarce, particularly in Ghana. This paper aims to make clear how participatory spatial knowledge tools and geographic information systems can be used to assess the threats to forest conservation in Ghana’s high forest zone. The results show that holders of spatial community-embedded knowledge not only sketch-mapped the location and spatial distribution of the threats to forest conservation in the forest reserves, but also provided information on the actors they perceived to be causing such threats. Such information is not available in forest inventories conducted by the responsible government agencies, but is needed to focus conservation strategies and make them more effective. Maps with the anticipated condition of the forest in 10 years’ time furthermore provided insights which can help governance actors to deal with the underlying drivers of forest degradation. This suggests that local spatialized knowledge needs to be integrated into the institutional arrangements for the governance of forested landscapes, and that such governance cannot be effective without the inclusion of local people’s knowledge. Due consideration is however to be given to the conditions that ensure that spatialized knowledge production and its use in landscape management decision-making occurs in an inclusive manner.

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Local Spatialized Knowledge of Threats to Forest Conservation in Ghana’s High Forest Zone

Somuah

Ros-Tonen

Baud

2021

Environmental Management

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“…In developing the IASI methodology, CIMMYT leveraged knowledge gained through preexisting international collaborations (e.g., CSIRO; KSS) and mobilized a diverse set of research-based approaches (e.g., situation analysis; loosely coupled models; scenarios). The opportunity to develop and test the IASI methodology arose because CIMMYT was an inregion institution that had built long-term trust relationships and demonstrated its capacity to adeptly mobilize data and knowledge toward technical and political challenges [59]. For example, recent collaboration on the MasAgro innovation system, which achieved yield increases among smallholder farmers and enhanced private sector value chains, had deepened CIM-MYT's perception as a trusted partner of the Mexican government.…”

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One CGIAR and the Integrated Agri-food Systems Initiative: From short-termism to transformation of the world’s food systems

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Agri-food systems are besieged by malnutrition, yield gaps, and climate vulnerability, but integrated, research-based responses in public policy, agricultural, value chains, and finance are constrained by short-termism and zero sum thinking. As they respond to current and emerging agri-food system challenges, decision makers need new tools that steer toward multi-sector, evidence-based collaboration. To support national agri-food system policy processes, the Integrated Agri-food System Initiative (IASI) methodology was developed and validated through case studies in Mexico and Colombia. This holistic, multi-sector methodology builds on diverse existing data resources and leverages situation analysis, modeled predictions, and scenarios to synchronize public and private action at the national level toward sustainable, equitable, and inclusive agri-food systems. Culminating in collectively agreed strategies and multi-partner tactical plans, the IASI methodology enabled a multi-level systems approach by mobilizing design thinking to foster mindset shifts and stakeholder consensus on sustainable and scalable innovations that respond to real-time dynamics in complex agri-food systems. To build capacity for these types of integrated, context-specific approaches, greater investment is needed in supportive international institutions that function as trusted in-region ‘innovation brokers.’ This paper calls for a structured global network to advance adaptation and evolution of essential tools like the IASI methodology in support of the One CGIAR mandate and in service of positive agri-food systems transformation.

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“…Shared goals, interorganizational connectivity, yet perceived lack of effectiveness in the two landscapes raise questions of how governance functionality might be improved. Networks for natural resource governance may be enhanced by strong ties within clusters, knowledge brokers, constituencies at multiple levels of governance, support from diverse political bodies and sectors of society (Krackhardt et al 2003, Newig et al 2010, Bodin and Prell 2011, Alexander et al 2016, Mbaru and Barnes 2017, McGonigle et al 2020. The networks produced for the Northern Plains and Eastern Plains contain some of the characteristics described but are not functioning as well as they could.…”

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Actor network analysis to leverage improvements in conservation and development outcomes in Cambodia

Riggs¹,

Langston²,

Phann³

2020

E&S

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Network analysis has emerged as a useful practice for characterizing governance relationships and providing insights to the power relations that affect landscapes. We applied actor network analysis in two rural Cambodian landscapes to examine decisionmaking structures that affect conservation and development systems. Using questionnaire data, we analyze structural features of networks of cooperation and exchange to identify patterns of action and processes of change. We supplement our analysis with qualitative information gathered on power and social-ecological components of landscapes to enrich our understanding of natural resource systems. We find that power in Cambodia is concentrated in a central hierarchy, and external actors aiming to influence decision making would benefit from operating at multiple scales; there is no single leverage point for interventions. Cooperation between conservation and development actors is lacking; we observe that actors tend to cluster within similar groups. Cross-sectoral collaboration may be enhanced by knowledge brokers, but current actors lack resources to fulfil this role and require external support. Our study highlights the importance of nongovernment actors as conveners and facilitators to shape natural resource governance in the context of weak institutions. We advocate more institutionalized use of diagnostics, such as actor network analysis, for enhanced natural resource governance.

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A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape Management

Cited by 36 publications

References 118 publications

Local Spatialized Knowledge of Threats to Forest Conservation in Ghana’s High Forest Zone

Local Spatialized Knowledge of Threats to Forest Conservation in Ghana’s High Forest Zone

One CGIAR and the Integrated Agri-food Systems Initiative: From short-termism to transformation of the world’s food systems

Actor network analysis to leverage improvements in conservation and development outcomes in Cambodia

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