Climate Governance and Agriculture in Southeast Asia: Learning From a Polycentric Approach

Fasting, Siw; Bacudo, Imelda; Damen, Beau; Dinesh, Dhanush

doi:10.3389/fpos.2021.698431

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“…In contrast, the polycentric network described below is conceptualized as a regional structure, engaging multiple networks operating at multiple scales, in order to support and systematize production, piloting, refinement, and possible scaling of multiple socio-ecological-technical systems in pursuit of agricultural diversification on regional scale. This project thus provides an additional case of deliberate experimentation with polycentric networks for sustainability transitions in agriculture (Marshall, 2009;Fasting et al, 2021;Heckelman et al, 2022). These reported cases, while different in many respects, aim to form systems of cooperation and mutual support among local-scaled sustainability networks and networks acting at broader scales.…”

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A polycentric network strategy for regional diversification of agriculture: theory and implementation

Jordan

Wilson

Noble³

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Widespread and substantial diversification of current agroecosystems appears fundamental to meeting many grand challenges in agriculture. Despite urgent calls for diversification on regional scales, particularly in regions dominated by industrialized, low-diversity agriculture, strategies for diversification on such scales are in early stages of development, conceptually and practically. We outline such a strategy, and its implementation by the Forever Green Partnership, a public-private-NGO coalition in support of agricultural diversification in the U.S. Midwest region. Our strategy supports introduction and scaling of multiple novel crops in a region, which requires development of many interdependent supporting elements, including supportive markets, infrastructure, policy, finance, and R&D. The core of our strategy is development of sustainable supply chains (SSCs) for a set of novel crops. We define SSCs as rudimentary systems of these supporting elements for novel crops, linking on-farm crop production to end-use markets while advancing economic, environmental, and social sustainability criteria that are demanded by stakeholders. SSCs provide a scaffold upon which fully-developed support systems for multiple novel crops can be constructed, thus driving regional diversification. SSCs cannot be “built in a day”; rather they must evolve as production of novel crops expands over time and space, and as new challenges and opportunities emerge. Therefore, regional diversification requires a system to sustain this evolutionary process across time and multiple novel crops. We posit that an effective system can be built from two crucial elements: a process of conscious and concerted cultural evolution, and a polycentric network that organizes and supports that process. We outline this system and its conceptual basis, and its implementation by the Forever Green Partnership, and associated challenges and accomplishments. Three years after its inception, the Partnership has attracted substantial resources, developed a polycentric network, and some elements of the cultural-evolution process are in place. However, node development is uneven across the network, hindering its operation. In addition to advancing strategies for regional-scale diversification, the Partnership is seeking to advance conceptual and practical understanding of sustainability transitions in agriculture, and to explore the potential value of conscious cultural evolution in such transitions.

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A polycentric network strategy for regional diversification of agriculture: theory and implementation

Jordan

Wilson

Noble³

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…When these polycentric governance processes build from the bottom up, opportunities emerge for self-organization and learning across systems, but independent decision making for adaptation planning and implementation at multiple levels. Fasting et al (2021) use the example of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Climate Resilience Network as a polycentric governance system that allows for autonomous units to self-organize and simultaneously to enhance climate resilience at different scales. Such an approach lends itself to being replicated in different contexts (Dorsch and Flachsland 2017).…”

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Transformative adaptation and implications for transdisciplinary climate change research

Hellin¹,

Amarnath²,

Challinor³

et al. 2022

Environ. Res.: Climate

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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.

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A transboundary agenda for nature-based solutions across sectors, scales and disciplines: Insights from carbon projects in Southeast Asia

Miller,

Taylor

2023

Ambio

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Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are integral to efforts to keep global warming below 2°C in accordance with the United Nations’ 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Yet the transboundary governance dimensions of NbS remain unclear and largely undocumented. In Southeast Asia, NbS have emphasised the conservation and/ or sustainable commodification of carbon sinks found in terrestrial and mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, peatlands and agricultural soils. Mostly project-driven and fixed-term, these “solutions” have often failed to meet their social and ecological objectives. Increasingly, they have added to cross-border problems of: (1) displaced carbon emissions; and (2) economic migration and societal dispossession. This perspective paper delineates a transboundary governance research agenda to mitigate these trade-offs and enhance the co-benefits of NbS in carbon sinks. Building on NbS literature, it identifies cross-sector, multi-scalar and interdisciplinary pathways to improve transboundary cooperation, inclusion and equity in carbon sink governance in varying Southeast Asian contexts.

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Climate Governance and Agriculture in Southeast Asia: Learning From a Polycentric Approach

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

A polycentric network strategy for regional diversification of agriculture: theory and implementation

A polycentric network strategy for regional diversification of agriculture: theory and implementation

Transformative adaptation and implications for transdisciplinary climate change research

A transboundary agenda for nature-based solutions across sectors, scales and disciplines: Insights from carbon projects in Southeast Asia

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