Achieving sustainable, equitable, and climate-resilient food, land, and water systems requires the active participation of diverse stakeholders in co-creating solutions. This interactive session explores how participatory research approaches—ranging from living labs and multi-stakeholder platforms to citizen science and gender-transformative methodologies—are driving social change and advancing resilient multifunctional landscapes.
By fostering collaboration between researchers, policymakers, communities, and innovators, participatory research strengthens collective agency, enhances decision-making, and enables context-specific innovations that address complex challenges such as land degradation, biodiversity loss and food insecurity.
Participants in this session will engage with practical tools and real-world examples from CGIAR initiatives.
Agenda:
1) Opening and framing presentation
2) Introductions to participatory research approaches used within CGIAR initiatives, examples and case-studies
3) Engage with concrete tools from the Agroecological Living Landscapes toolkit and with digital innovations in citizen science in a marketplace setting
4) Closing remarks
