Project Profile: SAFGOV
Food System Governance, Food Security and Land Use in Southern Africa
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | John Ingram, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Partners: | Scott Drimie, Southern African Food Lab (SAFL) based at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Allison Johnston Peter, University of Cape Town, South Africa George New Mark, University of Cape Town, South Africa Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town, South Africa Elizabeth Oughton, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Australia John Gowing, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Australia Tracy Irani, University of Florida, United States Teresa Balser, University of Florida, United States Alexa Lamm, University of Florida, United States Catherina J.A.M.Termeer, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Kasper Kok, Wageningen University, The Netherlands |
| Sponsors: | Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom National Research Foundation, South Africa National Science Foundation, United States Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Food System Governance, Food Security and Land Use in Southern Africa |
| Full Call Title: | Food2013 |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | The overall objective of this project is to draw on research skills from South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands to build an international community of researchers closely linked to a range of stakeholders across southern Africa's public and private organisations. This community will then be able to co-design and jointly undertake research on (i) the effectiveness and adaptiveness of food system governance arrangements for food security; and (ii) food systems governance as driver of land use change and implications for associated ecosystem services. |
| 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 |
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When?
| Duration: | 30 months |
| Call Date: | 2013 |
| Project Award Date: | 2013 |
