Roots of Change: a Just Wilding Transition for the Agri-food System
Overview
Rewilding has gained attention as a way to restore nature and combat climate change, but it has often left farmers feeling excluded. Rewilding agricultural land, seeks to create solutions that benefit both farming communities and food security while also delivering the land use changes needed to meet environmental goals. This project will bring together various stakeholders to explore practical agricultural wilding (introducing and conserving wild crops and plants for agricultural purposes) options. It will focus on two farming systems—upland and lowland—to identify the barriers related to knowledge, policy, and funding, and the solutions to overcoming them. The findings will inform advocacy efforts, promoting agricultural wilding as a viable and fair solution at a critical time for farming and land-use policies at a local and national level.
- Sustainable Development Goals
This project examines the following SDGs:
SDG 2 – Zero Hunger
SDG 15 – Life on LandFind out more about the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
| Timeline |
October 2024 - |
|---|---|
| Funding |
AFN Network+ (£50,000) |
- Principle Investigator (PI)
- Dr Lidia Cabral, Institute of Development Studies
- Co-investigators and project partners
- Dr Christopher Sandom, University of Sussex, UK (co-investigator)
- Dr Pedram Rowhani, University of Sussex, UK (research advisor)
- Professor John Thompson, University of Sussex, UK (research advisor)
- Ruth Wescott, Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming, UK (project partner)
- Will White, Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming, UK (project partner)
- Lily O'Mara-Adembesa, Sustainable Food Places, UK (project partner)