Despite decades of research accompanied by investments and deep reserves of Indigenous knowledge, meaningful change on the ground remains elusive. This session brings together government officials, researchers, and practitioners to interrogate the persistent gaps in bridging the science-policy-society interface for accelerated impact, examining how fragmented knowledge production, power dynamics, institutional biases, and funding structures determine whose evidence gets trusted and acted upon.
From Kenya’s rangeland governance experience to citizen-generated land data across Africa, the panel maps the barriers standing between what we know and what we urgently need to do to shorten the knowledge-action-impact gap.
