Investigating the Translation of Science in AgriFoSe2030: A Path to Ending Hunger

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Cheryl Sjöström, PhD, is leading a research effort within AgriFoSe2030 to address the challenge of science communication in achieving smallholder food security. The focus is on mobilizing knowledge to end persistent hunger issues by bridging the research-policy gap through effective communication strategies. Through the AgriFoSe2030 program, the goal is to translate science into policy and practice to support sustainable agriculture and food security, targeting young researchers in academic institutions.

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INVESTIGATING THE TRANSLATING OF SCIENCE Cheryl Sj str m, PhD in Sustainability Science Researcher/project coordinator AgriFoSe2030 Theme 1 Department of Human Geography Lund University, Sweden cheryl.sjostrom@keg.lu.se

Problem: Science communication is difficult Research-Policy Gap = Science-based knowledge gets lost Particularly, knowledge production with the intention of contributing to smallholder food security Why is this a problem? Persistent hunger problems, despite decades and dollars invested

Goal: Mobilizing knowledge, ending hunger Our common goal to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture SDG #2 (we get there through different means) The moral underpinnings of food insecurity have an advantage theoretically putting us all on the same boat, need to make our boats into a fleet, requires communication

AgriFoSe2030: translating science into policy and practice Sida-funded programme Advocates for a science- based approach to achieve the UN SDG #2 Targets young researchers within academic institutions

This presentation Small research effort within AgriFoSe Focus on the RQs and why they are important questions to ask Any results take us too far our of context Starting assumption: Science isn t finished until it s communicated. The communication to wider audiences is part of the job of being a scientist, and so how you communicate is absolutely vital. Professor Sir Mark Walport, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK government Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling.

RQs: What formal institutions within the domain of universities exist in sub- Saharan Africa with the clear mandate of translating science to policy and practice? And What limits and facilitates the outcome of these institutions of getting scientific knowledge about smallholder food security into spaces of policy and practice? Starts with the assumption that knowledge being produced is in fact good stuff, had communication in At the point of communication out, the researcher is the expert in their subject Depending on university mandate Examples of delegating up or down

Some of the challenges Merit system that does not reward communication to a wide audience Passing the buck whose responsibility is it? Ex in Sweden, there is a formalized third task (everyone = noone?) Communication through internet, low in Africa Boundary work (Cash et al 2003) saliency, legitimacy and credibility The wickedness of food insecurity as a normative subject of research makes communication challenging when non-research community needs actionable information Design flaws in donor-financed and supply-driven models of institution building Post-truth world?