Food Security and Land Use Change (Food 2013)
This Collaborative Research Action (CRA) 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 a driver of land use changes.
- Feedback loop interactions between land use change and food security dynamics.
CSIRO, FAPESP, RPF, ANR, MoES, Teagasc, MOARD, JST, WUR, UEFISCDI, NRF, SNSF, BBSRC/ESRC/NERC, and NSF
Seven projects were selected:
| AFGROLAND | African Food, Agriculture, Land and Natural Resource Dynamics, in the context of Global Agro-Food-Energy System Changes |
| DEVIL | Feedback Loop Interactions Between Land Use Change and Food Security Dynamics |
| ABC Telecoupling | Food Security and Land Use: The Telecoupling Challenge |
| FICESSA | Food Security Impacts of Industrial Crop Expansion in Sub-Sahara Africa |
| SAFGOV | Food System Governance, Food Security and Land Use in Southern Africa |
| THESIS | 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 |
| SMARTS2 | Sustainable Management of Agro-Ecological Resources for Tribal Societies 2 |