Improving the sustainability of food systems is the main objective of the project. It aims to do so by providing evidence-based scientific knowledge for the formulation and promotion of innovative strategies and policy options. Food policies must go beyond just maximizing global food productivity: instead, they must optimize the complex interactions between food production, environmental impacts, and social justice outcomes.
There is growing consensus that food security must be understood as an outcome of multiple factors operating at local to global scales. This project addresses a major research gap by not only looking at the performance of individual food systems, but also identifying conditions and factors that make the coexistence of food systems more sustainable.
The project will operate in Kenya and Bolivia.
Project duration: 6 years, starting 1.1.2015
