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Hydro-Social and Environmental Impacts of Sugarcane Production on Land Use and Food Security – an International Programme to Foster Trans-Disciplinary Science, Networking and Community Building

Who?

Principal Investigators: Tim Hess, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Partners: James Sumberg, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), United Kingdom
Trent Biggs, San Diego State University, United States
Cristina Milesi, California State University - Monterey Bay, United States
Mutlu Ozdogan, University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States
Matei Georgescu, Arizona State University, United States
Prasad Thenkabail, U.S. Geological Survey, United States
Fabio R. Marin, University of São Paulo – Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, Brazil
Murali Krishna Gumma, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India
David James Nixon, Booker Tate Ltd., United Kingdom
Michael Marshall, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya
Graham Jewitt, Centre for Water Resources Research, University of KwaZulu-Natalnited States, South Africa
Sponsors: São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil
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
National Science Foundation, United States

What?

Full Project Title: Hydro-Social and Environmental Impacts of Sugarcane Production on Land Use and Food Security – an International Programme to Foster Trans-Disciplinary Science, Networking and Community Building
Full Call Title: Food2013
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Why?

Project Objective: The aim of this project is to launch an international programme to foster trans-disciplinary science, networking and community building. The focus will be on understanding the hydro-social and environmental impacts, benefits and trade-offs that arise through the continued expansion of cane production, and its broader consequences global food security.
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, Asia, South America
Countries: Brazil, India, South Africa

When?

Duration: 27 months
Call Date: 2013
Project Award Date: 2013