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

THESIS

Call

  • Food

Project Website

Principal Investigator

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

Funders

  • FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), MoES (Ministry of Earth Sciences), NERC (Natural Environment Research Council), NRF (National Research Foundation), NSF (National Science Foundation)

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

Region

  • Africa, Asia, South America

Country

  • Brazil, India, South Africa

Duration

27 months

Call Date

2013

Project Award Date

2013