Project Profile: SMARTS2
Sustainable Management of Agro-ecological Resources for Tribal Societies 2
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Catherine Chan-Halbrendt, University of Hawaii, United States |
| Partners: | Brent Sipes, University of Hawaii, United States Travis Idol, University of Hawaii, United States Tadayoshi Masuda, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan Pravat Kumar Roul, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, India Nityananda Dahl, India Wim Van der Putten, Wageningen University, Plant Sciences, The Netherlands Steven Gray, University of Massachusetts Boston, United States |
| Sponsors: | Ministry of Earth Sciences, India Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands National Science Foundation, United States |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Sustainable Management of Agro-ecological Resources for Tribal Societies 2 |
| Full Call Title: | Food2013 |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | This research will demonstrate how conservation agriculture, technology, and fore-knowledge of climate variation (e.g. water availability) can be integrated with small landholder farmers' existing knowledge and behaviors to increase adaptation to climate change. With better understanding of behavior, SMARTS2 will help facilitate greater adoption of conservation agricultural production systems that are resilient to climate change and provide rural farmers with tools for self-reliance. By understanding how farmer decisions are currently made (through cognitive mapping) and by understanding market conditions and current environmental conditions, this research can help develop community-based farming programs that are less environmentally disruptive than traditional rural agricultural development programs, provide greater real-time feedback of market conditions, and which are sufficient to change behavior that increases environmental stewardship, market stability, and ultimately 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: | Asia |
| Countries: | India, Nepal |
When?
| Duration: | 18 months |
| Call Date: | 2013 |
| Project Award Date: | 2013 |
