Climate Smart Agriculture? Governing the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines the political economic and governance challenges faced by African governments in operationalizing Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) as part of their pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is a need to enrich our understanding of the diverse contex...
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| author | Peter Newell Olivia Taylor Lars Otto Naess John Thompson Hussein Mahmoud Patrick Ndaki Raphael Rurangwa Amdissa Teshome |
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| description | This paper examines the political economic and governance challenges faced by African governments in operationalizing Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) as part of their pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is a need to enrich our understanding of the diverse contexts and ways in which governments will have to navigate and address the inevitable choices and conflicts, synergies and trade-offs that will characterize efforts to simultaneously implement these global goals. Here we seek to develop an account of why and how countries are managing the interrelationship between SDGs, particularly those associated with food security and climate action. We develop explanations for the diversity in approaches and provide an initial assessment of what the consequences are for policy and practice. The analysis is informed by the contrasting experiences of four Eastern African countries, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Rwanda, as they seek to build more “climate resilient” food and agricultural systems that are compatible with achieving the SDGs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-150f28074d2c4e36957c8af7341fc8c52022-12-21T20:32:52ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems2571-581X2019-08-01310.3389/fsufs.2019.00055440985Climate Smart Agriculture? Governing the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan AfricaPeter Newell0Olivia Taylor1Lars Otto Naess2John Thompson3Hussein Mahmoud4Patrick Ndaki5Raphael Rurangwa6Amdissa Teshome7Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomDepartment of Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomInstitute of Development Studies, Brighton, United KingdomInstitute of Development Studies, Brighton, United KingdomDepartment of Social Sciences, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, KenyaUniversity of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaConsultant IFAD, Kigali, RwandaIndependent Consultant, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaThis paper examines the political economic and governance challenges faced by African governments in operationalizing Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) as part of their pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is a need to enrich our understanding of the diverse contexts and ways in which governments will have to navigate and address the inevitable choices and conflicts, synergies and trade-offs that will characterize efforts to simultaneously implement these global goals. Here we seek to develop an account of why and how countries are managing the interrelationship between SDGs, particularly those associated with food security and climate action. We develop explanations for the diversity in approaches and provide an initial assessment of what the consequences are for policy and practice. The analysis is informed by the contrasting experiences of four Eastern African countries, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Rwanda, as they seek to build more “climate resilient” food and agricultural systems that are compatible with achieving the SDGs.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00055/fullclimate changeagricultureSDGsgovernancesub-Sahara Africa |
| spellingShingle | Peter Newell Olivia Taylor Lars Otto Naess John Thompson Hussein Mahmoud Patrick Ndaki Raphael Rurangwa Amdissa Teshome Climate Smart Agriculture? Governing the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems climate change agriculture SDGs governance sub-Sahara Africa |
| title | Climate Smart Agriculture? Governing the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full | Climate Smart Agriculture? Governing the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_fullStr | Climate Smart Agriculture? Governing the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate Smart Agriculture? Governing the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_short | Climate Smart Agriculture? Governing the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_sort | climate smart agriculture governing the sustainable development goals in sub saharan africa |
| topic | climate change agriculture SDGs governance sub-Sahara Africa |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00055/full |
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