Current Research Projects
Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy and Practice for Sustainable Food Systems Under the EU-AU Partnership (StEPPFoS)
Short description:
The project “Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy Practice for Sustainable Food Systems under the EU-AU Partnership” (StEPPFoS) supported by the African Union Commission and the European Commission aims to promote policy coherence and alignment across the Pan-African Network for economic Analysis of Policies (PANAP) and for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) to help minimise the fragmentation of agri-food policy initiatives at national and regional levels. The goal is to promote science-based decision-making processes and the exchange of experiences in support of agricultural, food and trade policies and the integrative sustainable transformation of agrifood systems in Africa.
The project is funded by the European Commission's Horizon Europe funding programme for the period 2024-2027 and is coordinated by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).
The International Agricultural Trade and Food Security group (490b) of the University of Hohenheim participates in the StEPPFoS project together with seventeen other research institutes and organisations in Europe and Africa. The group leads/co-leads three work packages and several activities such as assessing barriers and facilitators of policy-research interaction, providing capacity building in computable general equilibrium modelling and analysis, supporting policy impact assessments and developing scenarios for agrifood system transformation in Africa.
https://steppfos.faraafrica.org/
Person involved: Dr. Kirsten Boysen-Urban, Dr. Dorothee Flaig, Dr. Christine Bosch, M.Sc. Emmanuel Namwanja
Partner: Coordinator: Forum For Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), CSIR, CORAF, EDCPM, FANRPAN, RUFORUM, Agrinatura, KIPPRA, Wageningen University and Research, AFAAS, EAFF, Universita Ca' Foscari in Venice, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, LifeWatch ERIC, EAFF, ASARECA, ACU, EC JRC
Funding: European Commission, Horizon Europe
Duration: 2024-2027
Location: Africa
Sino-German International Research Training Group - Adaptation of maize-based food-feed-energy systems to limited phosphate resources (AMAIZE-P)
Förderung von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinsschaft (DFG) im Rahmen der Sino-German International Research Training Group: Adaptation of maize-based food-feed-energy systems to limited phosphate resources - AMAIZE-P (IRTG 2366) für 1 Doktorandenstelle mit Forschungsthema „Economic assessment of future phosphorus availability: Impacts on agricultural and food markets at farm, national and global levels” von Oktober 2024 bis September 2027.
Die Forschung zielt darauf ab, Phosphor explizit in einem globalen ökonomischen Model abzubilden, um eine potenzielle Verknappung von Phosphor und deren Auswirkungen auf Agrar- und Nahrungsmittelmärkte zu simulieren. Mit Hilfe dieses Modells soll die Rolle des internationalen Handels auf die lokale Verfügbarkeit von Phosphor und somit Ernährungssicherung untersucht werden. Darüber hinaus sollen Szenarien basierend auf den Forschungsergebnissen der anderen Forschungsthemen simuliert werden, um abzuschätzen wie diese eine Verknappung von Phosphor abmildern und somit zur Ernährungssicherung beitragen können."
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Involved Persons
- Dr. Kirsten Boysen-Urban
- Prof Laping Wu
Involved institutions
- Universität Hohenheim, Fachgebiet Internationaler Agrarhandel und Welternährungswirtschaft (490b)
- China Agricultural University
Sponsors
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – 328017493/GRK 2366
Project duration: 2022 - 2024
The project, funded by UNFCCC in the framework of the Katowice Committee of Experts, develops and applies a toolkit of modelling tools to assess the impacts of the implementation of response measures with recursive dynamic pathways, country level emissions and several SDG indicators, and provides capacity building. The results illustrate the insights CGE analyses can provide for Small Island Developing States such as the Maldives.
Involved persons
- D. Flaig (PI)
- A. Mainar Causapé
- S McDonald
- L Shutes
Sponsors
- UNFCCC
Completed Research Projects
Welchen Beitrag können die „Farm to Fork“ – Strategie und die neu ausgerichtete gemeinsame Agrarpolitik zur Abfederung multipler Schocks leisten?
Projektbeginn: April 2023
Projektende: Januar 2024
Studie zur Ausschreibung 2023 der Edmund Rehwinkel-Stiftung der Rentenbank „Mehr Resilienz und Wandel – Strategien für Agrarwissenschaften und Politik“
Involved Persons
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Dr. Kirsten Boysen-Urban (UHOH)
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Dr. Ole Boysen (School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin)
Project duration: 2022 - 2023
Internal migration flows, rural-rural and rural-urban, in most African countries far exceed international movements. Nevertheless, the focus in migration studies in Africa lies on international migration. The project funded by EU-JRC develops a migration module that depicts internal migration flows in an empirically based framework for the single country CGE model DEMETRA. The migration module is implemented for a model for Ethiopia
Involved persons
- D. Flaig
- Dr. Dorothee FlaigS McDonald
- D. Persyn
Sponsors
- EU-JRC
Project duration: 2022
MASQ Ltd., London
Involved persons
- D. Flaig (PI)
- S McDonald
- L Shutes
- K Boysen-Urban
Project duration: 2021
Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Involved persons
- D. Flaig (PI)
- D Persyn
Project duration: 2021
European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST), Brussels
Involved persons
- D. Flaig (PI)
- S McDonald
Alternativen zur Einkommensstabilisierung – Sicherheitsnetze in der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik nach 2020
Projektbeginn: April 2017
Projektende: Januar 2018
Studie zur Ausschreibung 2017 der Edmund Rehwinkel-Stiftung der Rentenbank „Innovative Agrarpolitik nach 2020“
Antragsteller
- Dr. Kirsten Boysen-Urban (UHOH)
- Dr. Ole Boysen (School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin)
- Prof. Alan Matthews (Trinity College Dublin)
- Prof. Martina Brockmeier (UHOH)