Project Profile: FICESSA
Food Security Impacts of Industrial Crop Expansion in Sub-Sahara Africa
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Alexandros Gasparatos, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Partners: | Anna Locke, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), United Kingdom Kathy Willis, Royal Botanical Gardens Kew (RBGK), United Kingdom Graham Von Maltitz, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa Kazuhiko Takeuchi, United Nations University (UNU), Japan |
| Sponsors: | National Research Foundation, South Africa Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Food Security Impacts of Industrial Crop Expansion in Sub-Sahara Africa |
| Full Call Title: | Food2013 |
| Website: | https://supportoffice.jp/ficessa/ |
Why?
| Project Objective: | FICESSA aims to provide clear empirical evidence of how industrial crops compete for land with food crops in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the mechanisms through which this competition can affect food security, whether in a positive or a negative manner. |
| 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 |
Where?
| Regions: | Africa |
| Countries: | Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Swaziland |
When?
| Duration: | |
| Call Date: | 2013 |
| Project Award Date: | 2013 |
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