Sustainable climate and food systems

The research in this theme explores responses to climate threats to food security, conflicts between food production and biodiversity conservation, environmental and equity aspects of food supply chains, and the prospects for sustainable agriculture and other solutions. The projects primarily focus on the SDGs for Improved Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2), Good Health and Wellbeing (SDG 3), Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8), Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11), Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12), Climate Action (SDG 13), and Life on Land (SDG 15).

Projects

• Climate resistant agriculture systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Community-based conservation of coral reefs and fisheries in West Papua
• Delivering food security and biodiversity conservation through rewilding and community agriculture 
  
• Development of API and visualisation tools to discover post-Covid changes in energy consumption
• Ecosystem services, tropical agriculture, forestry and habitat regeneration provided by bats
• The intersection between migration, food security, environmental challenges and livelihood strategies
• Prediction of food security crises and responses (follow-on project: Cementing uptake of new drought forecast products and risk management decisions)
• Promoting sustainable agri-food value chains in Syria (follow-on project: Agricultural Voices respond to Syrian farmers. Using digital infrastructure to improve food security and environmental conservation in Northwest Syria)
• The resilience and sustainability of small farms
• The ‘right to nutrition’ in its social, legal and political context
• Supporting social, environmental and economic sustainability in the Costa Rican coffee industry
• Sustainable livelihoods, carbon storage, biodiversity conservation through forest vanilla production
• Tools for safe and sustainable artisanal fishing (follow-on project: Forecasting with Fishers: Turning research into a means for safe and sustainable livelihood of artisanal fishers in south India)
• Understanding trade-offs between SDGs in urbanising contexts
• Urbanisation and changing food systems
• Vegetation condition forecasting for early warning and preparedness action in Africa