ABSTRACT
Building on the arguments for the need for research on food security and global environmental change (GEC) at the regional level (Chapter 13), this chapter focuses on how different types of stakeholders work at regional level. By considering a number of examples, it shows how three groups of stake-holders (researchers, regional policy agencies and donors) engage in ‘regional science’. These groups often interact in complex ways, sometimes in support of each other, sometimes in conflict, and they can have fundamental differences in their interests in a particular region. They also all interact with other types of organizations working within and at the regional level – for instance, non-governmental organizations (see Chapter 18). In all cases, history and place are important and examples are drawn from a number of different regional projects.
