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One of the greatest challenges of our time is how to produce healthy food for a growing world population without increasing the pressure on the planet’s ecosystems or eroding other functions. This is much about how we adjust our resource use to existing planetary boundaries and reverse ongoing trends of homogenization and instead strive for multifunctionality.
Within this multi-disciplinary theme, we address questions related how we build resilience in global food systems and how to bring about large scale transformation of these interconnected systems. We also look more broadly at how resource consumption and recognition of multiple values could become a driver of positive change in support systems and what market-based mechanisms and other policy tools exist for changing human preferences and behaviour. “
Other aspects we look at include:
- how to navigate trade-offs in and across multifunctional landscapes/seascapes to accomplish good stewardship
- how to manage resources in a time with increasing scales, speed and connectivity;
- how agriculture biodiversity relates to poverty
- relationship between human health, environmental health and food systems
- power structures and relations within the food system and its relationship to multi functionality and stewardship
Research news | 2019-11-20
A study of local sustainability projects in Africa offers a new approach to understanding how grassroots projects address the SDGs
General news | 2019-11-18
Praised for its efforts to disseminate knowledge and hope about the transition to a more sustainable system
Research news | 2019-11-12
Research on water governance suggests that increasing engagement from groups outside the confined borders of central governance means rethinking those borders in the first place
Research news | 2019-10-25
Little research has been done on the untapped potential and unintended consequences of human-made water bodies like ditches, fishponds, weirs, reservoirs, fish ladders, and irrigation channels
Research news | 2019-10-24
Combining knowledge from local communities and policymakers holds the key to better land management for rural communities under a rapidly changing climate. That is if talk is replaced by action
Research news | 2019-10-23
Why biocultural diversity can contribute to both local and global sustainability
Here we sum up our insights on from our work on adaptation, innovation and the regreening of the Sahel region. Read more
Social-ecological systems (SES), are characterized by multi-scale interactions among actors and ecosystems. SES-Link investigates these linkages and how they affect resilience and governance. Read more here