The aim of this report is to provide a detailed review of documented social learning processes for climate change and natural resource management as described in peer-reviewed literature. Particular focus is on identifying (1) lessons and principles, (2) tools and approaches, (3) evaluation of so...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Garside, Ben
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Woodend, John
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Naess, Lars Otto
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Carlile, Liz
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[Social learning in practice: A review of lessons, impacts and tools for climate change]
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Social learning in practice: A review of lessons, impacts and tools for climate change
Social learning approaches can catalyse knowledge
co-creation and action, so have the potential to help
solve complex ‘wicked’ problems such as climate
change and food insecurity. This working paper
synthesises evidence from five diverse initiatives
employing social learning approaches in respons...
Epp, Marissa van
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Garside, Ben
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[Solving ‘wicked’ problems: can social learning catalyse adaptive responses to climate change?]
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Solving ‘wicked’ problems: can social learning catalyse adaptive responses to climate change?
Initiated in 2007, the Maarifa Centres (Maarifa is the Swahili word for knowledge) are a project that aims through multimedia tools, to facilitate the exchange of ideas, experiences, and knowledge among communities to enhance learning for improved socio-economic empowerment. The project involves ...
“Climate Analogues: Finding Tomorrow’s Agriculture Today” is an effort by CCAFS to make climate change adaptation a more tangible endeavour by encouraging the exchange of knowledge between communities. The idea is that the “analogues tool” helps to identify geographic areas where growing conditio...
The Climate Change and Social Learning Initiative is a cross-organisation group working to build a body of evidence on how social learning methodologies and approaches contribute towards development targets. Together with a select number of participating initiatives from a variety of organisation...
Epp, Marissa van
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Garside, Ben
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[Monitoring and Evaluating Social Learning: A Framework for Cross-Initiative Application]
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Monitoring and Evaluating Social Learning: A Framework for Cross-Initiative Application
Kabarole Research Centre (KRC, an NGO) started a radio food security awareness raising campaign for farmer groups in Western Uganda. More than 144 radio drama series on the topic of food security were performed and aired on radio as an entertaining means of discussing the topic. Listener demand ...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Garside, Ben
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Woodend, John
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Naess, Lars Otto
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Carlile, Liz
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[Creative communications campaign fostering social learning loops]
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Creative communications campaign fostering social learning loops
Moroccan farmers are becoming more involved in managing supply chains, notably through local and regional cooperatives, particularly for milk. However, despite the state’s attempts to transfer responsibilities to associations of water users, it retains control of large-scale irrigation schemes. I...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Garside, Ben
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Woodend, John
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Naess, Lars Otto
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Carlile, Liz
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[Developing self-perpetuating social learning: moving from constructive intervention to more autonomous group learning for drip irrigation in Morocco]
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Developing self-perpetuating social learning: moving from constructive intervention to more autonomous group learning for drip irrigation in Morocco
The Future Scenarios initiative works in a participatory and interactive way with technical advisors and other key stakeholders in East and West Africa to build some up pictures of different worlds, or narratives, that identify the uncertainties that policy-makers may be faced with at the regiona...
Agronomist researchers in Italy with a traditional approach to research wanted to raise awareness of nitrate levels in eco-systems. A “nitrate emergency” was declared in the 1990’s where levels of nitrates in drinking water were above safe levels. The response was compulsory reduction of the use ...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Garside, Ben
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Woodend, John
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Naess, Lars Otto
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Carlile, Liz
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[Shifting from a top-down research approach to ecosystem wide social learning and governance in managing nitrate levels]
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Shifting from a top-down research approach to ecosystem wide social learning and governance in managing nitrate levels
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and
Food Security (CCAFS1) is challenging its own community of scientists and partners to understand the importance of co-created knowledge in finding solutions to local climate change issues. Local communities dealing with the daily reali...
Carlile, Liz
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Ballantyne, Peter G.
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Förch, Wiebke
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Garside, Ben
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Harvey, Blane
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Patterson, Zachary
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Woodend, John
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[Climate change and social learning (CCSL): supporting local decision making for climate change, agriculture and food security]
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Climate change and social learning (CCSL): supporting local decision making for climate change, agriculture and food security