Food Security Impacts of Industrial Crop Expansion in Sub-Sahara Africa

FICESSA

Call

  • Food

Project Website

https://supportoffice.jp/ficessa/

Principal Investigator

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

Funders

  • JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), NERC (Natural Environment Research Council), NRF (National Research Foundation)

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

Region

  • Africa

Country

  • Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Swaziland

Duration

Call Date

2013

Project Award Date

2013