11th WICaNeM conference 2016 on Chain and Network Management
Aarhus, Denmark | June 19 – 23, 2016
Special Track on Climate Smart Agriculture: multi-disciplinary approaches now and in the future
Track Coordinators:
Vincent Blok (Social Sciences Group,Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Thomas Long (Social Sciences Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Saskia Visser (Alterra, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Mmapatla P. Senyolo (Social Sciences Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a high profile concept, emerging as a key response to the challenges agriculture faces due to climate change. CSA involves alterations to production systems and value chains that improve food security and agricultural productivity, increase adaptive capacity and resilience, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions where possible (FAO, 2010).
Whilst CSA has gained momentum (Campbell et al., 2014), as illustrated through commitments by actors such as the United Nations, African Union and the European Union, progress 'on-the-ground' is at an early stage (Ren, 2015). Ensuring a successful transition towards CSA will require concerted efforts from science and policy perspective, in both developed and developing country contexts.
Improving our knowledge of key factors around CSA is critical for its continued advance and the success of agriculture. However, CSA is a broad and multi-faceted issue (Bogdanski, 2012) which requires a more holistic approach based on science to inform policy (Steenwerth et al., 2014). Many barriers to change inhibit the development and implementation of CSA. Some examples include the slow adoption of technological innovations, regulatory and policy issues, lack of demand or the unequal distribution of benefits and costs across supply chains (Long et al., 2016). These barriers to change can be found on both the supply and demand sides of agro-food chains. In common with the wider theme of sustainable production and consumption, many barriers and issues relate to a lack of connection between supply (production) and demand (consumption) (Stevens, 2010). As such, finding ways of linking and integrating consumption or user perspectives to production may enhance the CSA transition. Furthermore, finding applicable ways to incentivise the uptake of CSA may offset the negative stance instigated by higher upfront costs associated with the uptake of climate smart alternatives.
The challenges associated with CSA will require, among other aspects, integrated multi-disciplinary approaches, which build upon social, natural and technological sciences. The key questions we pose for this workshop include:
· What are the best methods for promoting CSA and what strategies exist for expanding or upscaling successful examples of CSA?
· What synergies and trade-offs can be identified within CSA? How can trade-offs be prioritised?
· What catalytic roles are required to mainstream CSA and what are successful ways in which CSA could be integrated across agro-food supply chains?
· How can socio-economic, political, ecological and technological approaches be combined and integrated to help overcome key barriers to CSA?
· What concepts, approaches or actions are available for the bridging production and consumption dimensions of agro-food supply chains for the advancement of CSA?
· How can costs and benefits of CSA be spread equally within supply chains?
· What successful examples exist of CSA innovation adoption and diffusion?
· What role should policy and institutions play in furthering CSA?
· How can public and private financial sources be combined synergistically in order to cover investment requirements to foster CSA?
· What institutions and incentives are crucial to achieve climate smart agriculture transition?
· What are the key topics and priorities for a successful near and long-term future research agenda?
Given the importance of the emerging field of climate smart agriculture, this call for papers aims to deepen management scholars' and practitioners' understanding of how networks and chains can effectively be involved in climate smart agricultural processes. Therefore, we encourage submission of papers that tackle a broad range of questions, including (but not limited to) the aforementioned areas of special interest. Both empirical and conceptual papers are welcome and we strongly encourage multi-disciplinary submissions in areas such as agriculture, management, finance, accounting, supply chain, public administration and policy, marketing, organizational behaviour, communication, education, development, sociology and psychology among others.
To ensure consideration for this WICaNeM track session, please submit your abstract through the submission system by November 29 2015. Click on the button 'click here to submit' via http://www.ifama.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3621 and select 'call for symposium contributions'. Authors must register first and then submit a 3 to 5 page abstract in English. Each abstract must contain the following: Cover Page; Problem Statement; Objectives; Procedures/methodologies/approaches; Results; Conclusions; References and Authors' preferences for presentation as a paper or poster. Submissions will undergo a double blind peer review. Conditional to acceptance, authors will be invited to submit a full paper. The best scientific papers, associated with paper presentations, will be invited to participate to the Best Paper Award competition and may be selected for publication in either the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review (IFAMR) or the International Journal on Chain and Network Science (JCNS). All accepted papers will be available on USB-stick, for the registered participants attending the 2016 Conference. Posters are also eligible for competitive awards. For further questions and remarks, please feel free to contact the track coordinators Vincent Blok (vincent.blok@wur.nl) and Thom Long (thomas.long@wur.nl)
References
Bogdanski, A., 2012. Integrated food-energy systems for climate-smart agriculture. Agriculture & Food Security 1, 9.
FAO, 2010. "Climate-Smart" Agriculture: Policies, Practices and Financing for Food Security, Adaptation and Mitigation Food and Agriclutural Organisation, Rome.
Long, T.B., Blok, V., Coninx, I., 2016. Barriers to the adoption and diffusion of CSA technological innovations in Europe: Evidence from the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Italy. Journal of Cleaner Production 03/2015; DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.06.044
Ren, W., 2015. Climate-smart agriculture: conceptual framework and brief history, Plenary Keynote 2 Climate Smart Agriculture: Global Science Conference, March 16th - 18th Montpellier
Stevens, C., 2010. Linking sustainable consumption and production: The government role. Natural Resources Forum 34, 16-23.
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