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Box4.3:About theCGIARResearchProgramonClimateChange, AgricultureandFoodSecurity (CCAFS)1 The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is a strategic partnership ofCGIARandFutureEarth led by the InternationalCenter for TropicalAgriculture (CIAT).CCAFSbrings together the world’s best researchers in agricultural science, development research,climatescienceandEarthSystemsciencetoidentifyandaddressthe most important interactions, synergies and trade-offs between climate change, agriculture and food security. Formore information see ccafs.cgiar. org As an R4D programworking on addressing the complexities of climate change, agricultureand foodsecurity, themaingoalofCCAFSis to improve the livelihoods of the most vulnerable and poor people in target countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. While CCAFS is at the cutting edge of generating demand-driven science products, it also plays a bridging role: to transform credible scientific evidence and results into development outcomes. A key underlying principle the CCAFSmanagement team sub- scribes to is the “Three-Thirds Principle”: one third of effort engagingwith partners to decide what needs to be done and how; one third on doing the actual research, often in partnership; and one third on sharing results in appropriate formats and strengthening capacity of next users to utilize the research to achieve outcomes and impact. Deep engagement with stake- holders with the support from a wide network of partners to get science- basedsolutions topracticalproblems is fundamental to theCCAFSapproach (CCAFS2014). CCAFShasbeenoneof theprogramsat theforefrontof testingandpaving the way for moving a multi-million dollar R4D program from a logframe approach toanoutcome-focusedapproach.Additionally, it hasput inplacea MELmechanism for programmatic RBM, including elements of adaptive management. 1CCAFSstartedas aChallengeProgram(2009–2011), and thenbecameaCRPwithPhase 1(2012–2014)andanExtensionPhase(2015–2016).Theproposal forPhase2(2017–2022) iscurrentlyunderdevelopment.Weacknowledgesupport toCCAFSfromtheCGIARFund Council, EuropeanUnion, and International Fund forAgricultural Development.We also acknowledge the inputs ofmanypeople in thework andactivities describedhere. 60 T.Schuetz et al.