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