{"id":15947,"date":"2026-06-20T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/r4d-specialpriority-setting-in-climate-smart-agricultural-research-a-step-further-in-ensuring-food-security-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:21:07","slug":"r4d-specialpriority-setting-in-climate-smart-agricultural-research-a-step-further-in-ensuring-food-security-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/r4d-specialpriority-setting-in-climate-smart-agricultural-research-a-step-further-in-ensuring-food-security-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"R4D SpecialPriority \u2013 setting in Climate-smart Agricultural Research: A step further in ensuring food security in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 852px\">\n\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4312\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/A-green-cassava-field-in-Ibadan-Nigeria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4312\" \/>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A green cassava field in Ibadan, Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nA team of scientists, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilri.org\/user\/343\">Philip K. Thornton<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ccafs.cgiar.org\/about\/people\/anthony-whitbread\">Anthony Whitbread<\/a>, et\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/claessens-lieven\/\">Lieven Claessens<\/a>, sous le\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgiar.org\/\">CGIAR<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ccafs.cgiar.org\/\">Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security<\/a>\u00a0(CCAFS), from several international research organizations including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\">IITA<\/a>, have identified the need to intensify agricultural research for development, so as to meet the Sustainable Development Goals associated with food production, human nutrition, climate change, and environmental protection in a world with 9.7 billion people by 2050. A key part of addressing this challenge will revolve around effective priority setting in Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) that can provide information to help guide best-bet technology, policy, and investment action that leads to desired, long-term development outcomes while meeting local, immediate needs for food security.\n\nEstimates of the needed increase vary between 25 and 70%, depending on the assumptions made about efficiency and consumption pattern changes. One response to these recognized needs is the climate-smart agriculture approach. This approach has brought recognition that there will be multiple alternative pathways to sustainable agricultural systems.\n\nClimate-smart agriculture is widely promoted towards reorienting agricultural development under the realities of climate change; however, prioritizing its activities is crucial, given the need to use scarce resources as effectively as possible.\n\nThe scientists noted that prioritization in CSA involves six steps: (1) identifying system entry points and impact pathway; (2) defining spatial and temporal scale; (3) formulating research questions and how will they be addressed; (4) estimating production, adaptation, mitigation research impacts; (5) estimating other environmental and social impacts; (6) determining what is needed to go from research output to impact.\n\nThe article A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research by Philip K. Thornton, Anthony Whitbread, Tobias Baedeker, et al. can be accessed here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.agsy.2018.09.009\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.agsy.2018.09.009<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists, including Philip K. 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