Social and ecological networks supporting biodiversity and food security

Información del proyecto

SENet

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 661780

DOI

10.3030/661780

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 26 Marzo 2015

Fecha de inicio 15 Enero 2016

Fecha de finalización 17 Marzo 2018

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 171 460,80

Aportación de la UE

€ 171 460,80

Coordinado por

LEUPHANA UNIVERSITAT LUNEBURG
Germany

Objetivo

Halting biodiversity decline and ensuring food security are urgent and interconnected challenges. I will study how social and ecological structures in interaction generate tradeoffs and synergies between food security and biodiversity conservation. SENet has two aims: A) to identify ecological and socioeconomic structures that benefit or harm food security and biodiversity conservation in a rural, poor study landscape, and B) to develop an integrated network model capable of predicting such effects in similar settings worldwide. Globally, SENet will be the first research to apply (graph-theoretic) network analysis to understand synergies and tradeoffs in the food security–biodiversity nexus. I will develop the integrated model using data from a landscape in Ethiopia, where agricultural expansion and human-wildlife conflicts are driving deforestation. SENet differs from existing approaches that concentrate on increasing agricultural output and overlook that social and ecological outcomes are interdependent and cannot be understood separately. In contrast, my method focuses on the food security of rural villages and on the factors that prompt farmers to clear or to plant forest, to change crops, to migrate elsewhere, etc., i.e. on farmers' decisions that affect both food security and biodiversity. In this context, I will use systematic network analysis to show how farmers are connected through food trade, knowledge exchange and other socioeconomic processes, but also how their crop fields are linked to forests and human–wildlife conflicts. The implementation of SENet will draw on my skills in network analysis and the host’s research excellence on the biodiversity of agricultural landscapes, including their ongoing fieldwork in my study area. This setup ensures a theoretical and empirical foundation for my network models, and a forum for communicating my results to non-academic actors in Ethiopia and Europe.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ciencias sociales › sociología › gobernanza
• ciencias naturales › ciencias biológicas › conservación de la biodiversidad
• ciencias médicas y de la salud › ciencias de la salud › nutrición
• ciencias naturales › ciencias biológicas › ecología › ecosistemas
• ciencias agrícolas › agricultura, silvicultura y pesca › agricultura

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2014-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2014

Coordinador

LEUPHANA UNIVERSITAT LUNEBURG

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 171 460,80
• Dirección: SCHARNHORSTSTRASSE 1 ; 21335 LUNEBURG ; Alemania
• Región: Niedersachsen › Lüneburg › Lüneburg, Landkreis
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 171 460,80