Feedback Loop Interactions Between Land Use Change and Food Security Dynamics

DEVIL

Call

  • Food

Project Website

https://deliveringfoodsecurity.org/consortium/

Principal Investigator

Pete Smith, Scottish Food Security Alliance, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Partners

Paul West, Institute on the Environment (IonE), United States Mario Herrero, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Robert Scholes, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa Jean Ometto, INPE, Brazil Trilochan Mohapatra, Central Rice Research Institute, India Jean-François Soussana, INRA, France Nina Buchmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Deb Roberts, King's College, London, United Kingdom James Gerber, University of Minnesota, United States

Funders

  • ANR (The French National Research Agency), CSIRO (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), MoES (Ministry of Earth Sciences), NERC (Natural Environment Research Council), NRF (National Research Foundation), NSF (National Science Foundation), SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation)

Project Objective

DEVIL will examine the challenge of delivering food security now and in the future on limited area, which will entail examining feedback interactions between land use change and food security dynamics.

Call Objective

This call was designed to increase understanding of the dynamic spatial scale interactions between food security and land use. The focus was on the following topics: - Land use change impacts on food systems - Food systems dynamics as driver of land use changes - Feedback loop interactions between land use change and food security dynamics

Region

  • Africa, Asia, South America

Country

Duration

Call Date

2013

Project Award Date

2013