Participatory Agroclimatic Committees
The Participatory Agroclimatic Committees (Span. Mesas Agroclimáticas Participativas) are an initiative implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Span. Secretaría de Agricultura y Ganadería), through its Agri-Environmental, Climate Change and Risk Management Unit (Span. Unidad de Agroambiente, Cambio Climático y Gestión del Riesgo) that brings together representatives of different sectors, including: government, civil society, NGOs, international organizations, academics, farmers, women, and other regional and local groups interested in the agricultural sector. The main goal of these committees, which take place at the regional level, is to share information on climate change among its members, including regional and local producers, in order to reduce negative impacts and effects on crops. Local farmers that take part in the committees receive trainings and information on climate change predictions that helps them prepare their crops against adverse weather conditions. Committees are composed by a board of directors that is in charge of designing and implementing local operational plans. Additionally, the local committees publish a joint newsletter to provide advice for farmers in the region.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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