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The renewed approach to interdisciplinary research aimed at ‘Big Questions’ is wellencapsulated in the International Council for Science (ICSU) ‘Visioning Process’ and thispoints a strong way forward for international GEC science. The need for enhanced foodsecurity research provides an excellent rationale for this new way of working, drawing onboth the need for interdisciplinarity and broad stakeholder engagement. The on-goingstructural reorganisation in the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research(CGIAR) can reinforce this vision, applying it specifically to the developing world’sagriculture and food security research in the GEC/sustainability context through the CGIARResearch Program 7 ‘Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security’ (CCAFS).Risks with maintaining the status quoFailure to agree a new research infrastructure brings two risks.First, it risks holding back the enhanced interdisciplinary research agenda and innovativestakeholder partnerships needed to develop a novel way of producing scientific knowledge(i.e. its ‘co-production’), and benefit from this: the so called ‘Mode 2 research’ (Gibbons etal., 1994). Second, and the ‘flip side’ of the first concern, is that it risks maintaining the foodsecurity agenda in ‘Mode 1 research’, characterised by the “hegemony of theoretical science;by an internally-driven taxonomy of disciplines; and by the autonomy of scientists”(Nowotny et al., 2003).The discussion above, supported by the Papers comprising this thesis, call for a more holisticresearch agenda and advocate a more integrated way forward. It will not be easy without avisionary institutional framework.*****The central message of this thesis is clear: an innovative research approach that integrates awide range of concepts and methods, disciplines and research cultures, and research fundersand commercial investors is needed to enable science to support food security policyformulation and resource management more effectively. This will require enhancedinterdisciplinarity, stronger stakeholder engagement, more flexible funding opportunities andan institutional environment with a visionary governance structure.124
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