Projects

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
Countries:

When?

Duration: 30 months
Call Date: 2013
Project Award Date: 2013