Food System Governance, Food Security and Land Use in Southern Africa

南部非洲的粮食系统治理、粮食安全和土地利用

• 批准号: NE/M005321/1
• 负责人: John Ingram
• 金额: $ 7.7万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FM005321%2F1
• 关键词: Food; System; Governance; Security; Land

The role of private companies and other institutions is of growing importance in food security and land use issues in southern Africa. These include major 'up-steam' actors in the food system, including those engaged in food processing, marketing, intraregional trading, and the food aid sectors. All are ultimately influenced by consumers, and can therefore are largely controlling demand. The role these 'actors' fulfil, and the way in which they operate, is mediated by their interactions with each other and with both state structures (e.g. SADC and national policies). In essence, the governance arrangements among these actors determine how these interactions play out, but the situation is complex and these arrangements are poorly understood.The overall objective of the project is to draw on research skills from South Africa, UK, US and the Netherlands to build an international community of researchers closely linked to a range of stakeholders across southern Africa's public and private organisations. This community will then be able to co-design and jointly undertake research on (i) the effectiveness and adaptiveness of food system governance arrangements for food security; and (ii) food systems governance as driver of land use change and implications for associated ecosystem services.The research focus on governance arrangements in southern Africa's food systems is highly innovative. Earlier work has highlighted this need, but there has been little coordinated effort to address this at national level, let alone internationally. The multi-level approach spanning SADC-national-provincial-local levels, again strongly advocated by earlier work, is also innovative. Combining the governance angle with the multi-level work is the distinguishing feature of this proposal. Results will help inform both public and private policy making on the consequences of 'demand-led' decision making for food security and land use change, thereby complementing other work on land use change as driven by issues of food supply.

私营公司和其他机构在南部非洲的粮食安全和土地使用问题上的作用越来越重要。其中包括粮食系统中主要的“上升期”行为者，包括从事食品加工、销售、区域内贸易和粮食援助部门的行为者。所有这些最终都受到消费者的影响，因此可以在很大程度上控制需求。这些“行动者”所发挥的作用以及他们的运作方式，是由他们彼此之间以及与国家结构（例如南部非洲发展共同体和国家政策）的相互作用来调节的。本质上，这些参与者之间的治理安排决定了这些交互如何发挥作用，但是情况是复杂的，并且这些安排很难被理解。该项目的总体目标是利用来自南非、英国、美国和荷兰的研究技能，建立一个与南部非洲的公共和私人组织的一系列利益相关者密切联系的国际研究人员社区。然后，该社区将能够共同设计和共同开展以下研究：(i)粮食安全的粮食系统治理安排的有效性和适应性；（ii）粮食系统治理作为土地利用变化的驱动因素及其对相关生态系统服务的影响。对南部非洲粮食系统治理安排的研究是高度创新的。早期的工作强调了这一需要，但在国家一级解决这一问题的协调努力很少，更不用说国际上了。跨越南部非洲发展共同体-国家-省-地方各级的多层次方法也是创新的，这也是早期工作所大力提倡的。将治理角度与多层次工作相结合是该方案的显著特点。研究结果将有助于为公共和私人政策制定提供信息，了解“需求主导”的粮食安全和土地利用变化决策的后果，从而补充其他由粮食供应问题驱动的土地利用变化工作。