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Improving international and national governance frameworks and business standards for intact forests and climate and biodiversity
Wildlife Conservation Society
The project will promote better outcomes for the climate, biodiversity and livelihoods values of intact forests and other ecosystems by ensuring they are fully represented in policy frameworks at national and international levels. The four components target (1) forest management frameworks in Republic of Congo and Gabon, (2) global public climate policy and finance frameworks, especially around the UNFCCC and CBD, (3) public and private sector regulations and guidance around forest-risk commodity supply chains and (4) guidance for protecting biodiversity in Chinese foreign direct investment. We will share credible scientific evidence through key consultation processes and facilitate fuller stakeholder involvement.
Programme identifier:
US-EIN-13-1740011-US-EIN-13-1740011-DFID-112106
Start Date:
2021-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£850,000
Development Priority Window (DPW)
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), this program conducts and commissions research into the development of more rigorous and systematic assessment of the impact of development policies and programmes
Programme identifier:
US-EIN-262681792-DPW
Start Date:
2015-08-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£6,000,000
Protecting Mongolia’s Gobi Desert for wild camels and herder communities
Zoological Society of London
This landscape is currently threatened by a host of environmental and social issues, including: overgrazing by livestock; habitat degradation and waterhole loss, exacerbated by climate change; domestic-wild camel cross-breeding; and manmade barriers to long-distance wildlife migration. Indigenous herder livelihoods are equally vulnerable to climate change, water scarcity and rangeland degradation. Government and communities alike have lacked mechanisms and resources to collaborate across this vast landscape to share knowledge, experience, and tackle threats.
Programme identifier:
GB-COH-RC000749-DWIN-ASC18-002
Start Date:
2021-07-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£497,146
Appui à la réponse nationale aux feux de forêts
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Cette initiative visera à mener des opérations d’assainissement forestier, de correction torrentielle, de sensibilisation des OSC et de reboisement sur 10 wilayas.
Programme identifier:
XM-DAC-41114-PROJECT-00140192
Start Date:
2021-12-15
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£1,089,492
Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund Round 5
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is the fifth most lucrative transnational crime, worth up to £17bn a year globally. As well as threatening species with extinction, IWT destroys vital ecosystems. IWT also fosters corruption, feeds insecurity, and undermines good governance and the rule of law. The UK government is committed to tackling illegal trade of wildlife products. Defra manages the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, which is a competitive grants scheme with the objective of tackling illegal wildlife trade and, in doing so, contributing to sustainable development in developing countries. Projects funded under the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund address one, or more, of the following themes: • Developing sustainable livelihoods to benefit people directly affected by IWT • Strengthening law enforcement • Ensuring effective legal frameworks • Reducing demand for IWT products Over £23 million has been committed to 75 projects since the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund was established in 2013; five projects were awarded in 2014 (via applications to the Darwin Initiative), fourteen in 2015, fifteen in 2016, thirteen in 2017, fourteen in 2018 and in the latest round in 2019. This round of funding includes the following projects (details of which can be found at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/811381/iwt-project-list-2019.pdf)): IWT062, IWT063, IWT064, IWT065, IWT066, IWT067, IWT068, IWT069, IWT070, IWT071, IWT072, IWT073, IWT074, IWT075.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-IWTCF-R5
Start Date:
2019-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£4,588,554
Darwin Initiative Round 23
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide. The initiative funds projects that help countries rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to meet their objectives under one or more of the biodiversity conventions. The objective is to to address threats to biodiversity such as: - habitat loss or degradation - climate change - invasive species - over-exploitation - pollution and eutrophication.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-DAR23
Start Date:
2018-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£7,619,619
Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund Round 3
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is the fifth most lucrative transnational crime, worth up to £17bn a year globally. As well as threatening species with extinction, IWT destroys vital ecosystems. IWT also fosters corruption, feeds insecurity, and undermines good governance and the rule of law. The UK government is committed to tackling illegal trade of wildlife products. Defra manages the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, which is a competitive grants scheme with the objective of tackling illegal wildlife trade and, in doing so, contributing to sustainable development in developing countries. Projects funded under the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund address one, or more, of the following themes: • Developing sustainable livelihoods to benefit people directly affected by IWT • Strengthening law enforcement • Ensuring effective legal frameworks • Reducing demand for IWT products Over £23 million has been committed to 75 projects since the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund was established in 2013; five projects were awarded in 2014 (via applications to the Darwin Initiative), fourteen in 2015, fifteen in 2016, thirteen in 2017, fourteen in 2018 and in the latest round in 2019. This round of funding includes the following projects (details of which can be found at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/811381/iwt-project-list-2019.pdf). The projects that a relevant for this area are IWT035 to IWT047.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-IWTCF-R3
Start Date:
2017-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£4,123,118
Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund Round 4
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is the fifth most lucrative transnational crime, worth up to £17bn a year globally. As well as threatening species with extinction, IWT destroys vital ecosystems. IWT also fosters corruption, feeds insecurity, and undermines good governance and the rule of law. The UK government is committed to tackling illegal trade of wildlife products. Defra manages the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, which is a competitive grants scheme with the objective of tackling illegal wildlife trade and, in doing so, contributing to sustainable development in developing countries. Projects funded under the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund address one, or more, of the following themes: • Developing sustainable livelihoods to benefit people directly affected by IWT • Strengthening law enforcement • Ensuring effective legal frameworks • Reducing demand for IWT products Over £23 million has been committed to 75 projects since the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund was established in 2013; five projects were awarded in 2014 (via applications to the Darwin Initiative), fourteen in 2015, fifteen in 2016, thirteen in 2017, fourteen in 2018 and in the latest round in 2019. This round of funding includes the following projects (details of which can be found at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/811381/iwt-project-list-2019.pdf): IWT048, IWT049, IWT050, IWT051, IWT052, IWT053, IWT054, IWT055, IWT056, IWT057, IWT058, IWT059, IWT0760, IWT061.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-IWTCF-R4
Start Date:
2018-07-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£4,505,210
Darwin Initiative Round 26
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide. The initiative funds projects that help countries rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to meet their objectives under one or more of the biodiversity conventions. The objective is to to address threats to biodiversity such as: - habitat loss or degradation - climate change - invasive species - over-exploitation - pollution and eutrophication
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-DAR26
Start Date:
2020-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£5,607,898
Developing a sustainable landscape management model for community-led forest conservation, carbon storage, and livelihoods enhancement across Madagascar's protected area network
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Reducing deforestation, restoring and protecting degraded habitats and strengthening internal governance in Madagascar’s network of terrestrial protected areas.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-ICF-PO0010-MADA
Start Date:
2021-09-15
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£9,761,000
Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund Round 6
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is the fifth most lucrative transnational crime, worth up to £17bn a year globally. As well as threatening species with extinction, IWT destroys vital ecosystems. IWT also fosters corruption, feeds insecurity, and undermines good governance and the rule of law. The UK government is committed to tackling illegal trade of wildlife products. Defra manages the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, which is a competitive grants scheme with the objective of tackling illegal wildlife trade and, in doing so, contributing to sustainable development in developing countries. Projects funded under the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund address one, or more, of the following themes: • Developing sustainable livelihoods to benefit people directly affected by IWT • Strengthening law enforcement • Ensuring effective legal frameworks • Reducing demand for IWT products Over £26 million has been committed to 85 projects since the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund was established in 2013; five projects were awarded in 2014 (via applications to the Darwin Initiative), fourteen in 2015, fifteen in 2016, thirteen in 2017, fourteen in 2018 and thirteen in 2019 and ten in the latest round in 2020. (more info here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/919053/iwt-challenge-fund-list.pdf): IWT076, IWT077, IWT078, IWT082, IWT083, IWT079, IWT080, IWT081, IWT084, IWT085
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-IWTCF-R6
Start Date:
2020-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£3,417,064
Darwin Initiative Round 25
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide. The initiative funds projects that help countries rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to meet their objectives under one or more of the biodiversity conventions. The objective is to to address threats to biodiversity such as: - habitat loss or degradation - climate change - invasive species - over-exploitation - pollution and eutrophication
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-DAR25
Start Date:
2019-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£8,314,952
Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (FGMC) Programme Extension - Programme Management
Pegasys Limited
The Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (FGMC) programme is the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) flagship global forestry initiative, with the broad aim of bringing about governance and market reforms that reduce the illegal use of forest resources and benefit poor people who depend on forests for their livelihoods. As part of global efforts to improve forest management and tackle deforestation, FGMC supports international policy processes which tackle illegal logging in timber-producing developing countries and the trade in illegally produced timber products. FGMC’s original business case, which ran from 2011 to 2020 with a total budget of £250 million funded from the UK’s International Climate Fund (ICF), has been granted an extension running from April 2021 to March 2023
Programme identifier:
GB-COH-10333897-FGMC
Start Date:
2020-11-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£22,293,108
GCRF-BBR: Developing a hybrid bean collection to advance climate-ready bean breeding
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important food legume in the human diet, providing protein, micronutrients and complex carbohydrates for >300 million people in the tropics. Climate change scenarios predict that heat/drought and pests and diseases will be major pressures on bean production in the future. As with most major crops, and because of its domestication history, cultivated common bean lacks genetic diversity. Wild relatives can be used to introduce this diversity for key traits of interest, and in some cases have already been used successfully to provide novel sources of resistance to pests and diseases in beans. This is by no means an easy process, as producing the next generation of plants from these ""wide crosses"" is difficult, making it hard for breeding programs to make use of the opportunities offered by these wild plants. However, wide crosses occur naturally where farmers grow cultivated beans adjacent to wild populations, as happens across the natural range of beans from Mexico to Argentina. A number of these naturally occurring cultivated-wild hybrids populations have already been collected from sites throughout Central and South America and are stored in the CIAT genebank. We will characterise plants from twenty hybrid populations for priority breeding traits linked to climate change e.g. pest and disease resistance, and heat and drought tolerance. We will explore their genomes and provide all of this information to the bean breeding and research communities in an accessible way, to help users select the most suitable plants for their purpose. We will hold workshops and demonstrations to make sure that breeders and researchers are aware of this resource and understand how best to make use of it. By reducing the barriers to inclusion of wild plants into bean breeding programmes, we will help breeders to produce better beans in a shorter time, which will have a positive impact on global food security.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-BB_R01504X_1
Start Date:
2018-05-08
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Using single-cell RNAseq to investigate human malaria parasite transmission dynamics
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Malaria is caused by a parasite that is transmitted exclusively by mosquitoes. The greatest malaria reduction and eradication success stories have been achieved by interrupting transmission. Historically, this has been through mosquito control. Targeting the small population of specialised parasites residing in the human host that are transmitted through mosquitoes would provide a similarly powerful malaria control method but we know too little about this population. Until now, the genes expressed by parasites have been analyzed by combining millions of parasites together. This approach confounds differences between individual parasites that could underlie success in getting into another host or in resisting the drugs we use to kill the parasites. We have recently developed a method to analyse single parasites one at a time. This technological leap has allowed us to understand parasites in the laboratory with more precision than ever before and importantly to understand how one parasite may differ from another during the whole life of the parasite both in the host and in the mosquito. Although the laboratory setting and lab strains of parasites are powerful tools for understanding parasite biology, in the lab we cannot understand the full diversity of parasites that exist in the wild causing devastating consequences for infected individuals. In this project we propose to characterise wild parasites at an individual level in partnership with Malian scientists. Our exploration will allow us to characterise the three main species of malaria parasite in sub-saharan Africa on a single parasite level for the first time. We will integrate the data into an interactive website called the Malaria Cell Atlas. This will become a key resource for the research community. We will then explore the changes from one patient to the other of the deadliest malaria species in both patients that are suffering from malaria symptoms and also from infected carriers who are not suffering from malaria, both of which contribute to the overall reservoir of parasites. Altogether, we will look at more than 300,000 individual parasites and get a very deep understanding of how individual parasites are both similar and different from each other. Understanding this infectious reservoir is pivotal to identifying how parasites efficiently get from one person to the next. Altogether our findings using cutting-edge tools to explore wild parasites will be key to understanding malaria and how to best control it.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-MR_S02445X_1
Start Date:
2019-10-02
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Human live-attenuated rotavirus to assess next-genchallenge with eration rotavirus vaccines in Africa
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Rotavirus infection causes severe diarrhoea and is responsible for about 130,000 child deaths every year in low-income countries in Africa and Asia. Two vaccines have recently been introduced worldwide and have started to reduce the burden of rotavirus disease. Unfortunately, these orally administered vaccines are less effective in the low-income countries where they are needed compared with high-income countries. This means rotavirus remains the main cause of hospitalisation for diarrhoea even after their introduction. To tackle this challenge, we need a next-generation of rotavirus vaccines that overcome the barrier to effective oral vaccines in low-income countries. These vaccines are in the development pipeline. However, their assessment in clinical trials is challenging because comparison with placebo is no longer considered ethical and immune correlates of protection (CoP) that could be used as alternative trial endpoints have not been identified. Controlled human infection studies, where participants are deliberately exposed to wild-type or attenuated infections, are increasingly playing a role in the clinical development of new vaccines and global recommendations concerning their use. We propose to use a licensed live-attenuated oral rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix) as a controlled human infection challenge in infants in Zambia to investigate a novel injectable rotavirus vaccine used alone or in combination with oral vaccination. This is an exciting opportunity to see whether this injectable VP8 subunit vaccine can overcome the barrier to oral immunisation and whether its effectiveness is improved through combined use with oral vaccine. Use of a live-attenuated vaccine as a challenge agent has many advantages compared with wild-type infection, including its established safety profile, highly regulated (GMP) manufacture and its suitability for use in children. The relevance of this infection model (rather than clinical disease) is supported by recent findings showing acquired immunity to rotavirus acts primarily by preventing infection rather than reducing the risk of disease following infection and will be further validated by comparison with results from an ongoing phase 3 clinical trial of the efficacy of this vaccine. This human infection model will also allow us to investigate the development of intestinal (mucosal) immunity following oral and parenteral immunisation and to efficiently explore potential immune correlates of protection (CoP) against infection that can be measured in blood or saliva samples taken from infants after vaccination. These will be based on recent advances in our understanding of rotavirus immunology and focus on systemic and mucosal antibodies targeting different rotavirus antigens. If we find that combined use of an oral and injectable vaccine is more effective than current schedules, this will support further studies and programmatic evaluation that could ultimately lead to a greater impact of vaccination in Africa and Asia on rotavirus disease and mortality. At the end of this project, we will also have improved our understanding of vaccine-induced rotavirus immunity and established a live-attenuated rotavirus infection model in African infants that can be used to assess new rotavirus vaccines under development.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-MR_T030321_1
Start Date:
2020-09-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment Hub
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Our GCRF TRADE Hub addresses a global challenge that has led to dramatic decline in biodiversity and ecosystem resilience in the past century, and if not addressed will significantly imperil the development of lower income nations. Trade in wildlife and agricultural commodities from low and middle income to higher income countries has increased rapidly over the last decades, and is projected to expand rapidly into the future to meet demands. Although trade is vital for national development, it also can carry heavy environmental and social costs, particularly for poor rural people in DAC countries, mainly because there is a great imbalance of power within the decision-making system and the most affected people are relatively powerless and voiceless in the decision-making process. The development of these trades over the past decades have has also resulted in considerable impacts on natural systems, threatening with extinction thousands of species globally. Addressing the issue of balancing the positives of ever-expanding trade with its costs is essential to addressing several of the SDGs, to protect and promote livelihoods within vulnerable communities in DAC countries, and is important for the UK in terms of negotiating sustainable trade deals that also meet other environmental and social development commitments. The Hub will work on a number of key trade flows that are particularly important to our focal developing countries and the UK, and where we have existing strengths that will allow us to have real impact in the lifetime of the Hub. This will include trade that has a direct impact on biodiversity - for example the global trade in wildlife for a range of uses, including the regional and national trade in wild meat. It will also include agricultural commodity trades that have indirect impacts on biodiversity through conversion or degradation of habitats. Its strong international and interdisciplinary research team, including economists, trade modellers, political scientists, ecologists and development scientists, will produce novel, impact-orientated research. Through involving companies, UN-related trade bodies and governments, the project will be embedded in the needs of the economy and development at large. We have ten work packages: During the project design phase WP0 will further elaborate a detailed theory of change and mapping exercise leading to the co-design of the research programme with critical stakeholders (private sector actors, trade organisations and NGOs). This will lead into the delivery of eight interlinked work packages: WP1: Understanding wildlife trade from DAC countries (live animals, skins, non-timber products, wildmeat) at the supply end; volumes and characteristics of local and export trade, and impacts on biodiversity and resource users; WP2: Understanding supply to demand-end agricultural commodity trade pathways, volumes and characteristics, within and exported from DAC countries; WP3: Determining the magnitude and spatial-temporal distribution of social benefits and costs for selected wildlife and commodity supply chains from the supply to demand ends; WP4: Understanding how trade and economic policies impact on wild-sourced and agricultural commodity trades and their impact on people and nature; WP5: Modelling the implementation of different scenarios of trade policy and corporate decision making; WP6: Developing solutions and building capacity through engagement with the private sector (large corporations and investors); WP7: Developing solutions and building capacity, through engaging with trade public sector rule-setting agencies and national policy makers; WP8: Outreach and Technology Solutions. We also have a cross-cutting WP9: building DAC partner capacity to ensure ongoing, sustainable research-led solutions to TRADE's intractable challenge. We involved DAC countries, corporations, investment bodies, and UN-linked trade agencies in the co-design of this Hub from the outset.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-ES_S008160_1
Start Date:
2019-02-13
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£18,239,311.48
TROPICAL - Translating Research Opportunities to enhance Pollination benefits to economically Important Crops And improve Livelihoods
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
The University of Reading team of PI and Co-Is on this proposal have been at the forefront of developing and testing the science underpinning the optimisation of pollination service delivery to improve the yield and quality of economically important crops such as apples. The novel pollinator/pollination management practices underpinned by our research have helped inform management of pollination services in the UK and across the EU. These methods can be readily translated into context specific ecological interventions in other cropping systems to improve the crop pollination. Our aim is to utilise our research to enhance sustainable crop production and farming systems in ODA countries and for this proposal we are working with small holder farmers in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. This is a state of 67 million people, with ~45% relying on agriculture as their primary livelihood India has many crops of high economic and nutritional value with around 50 million hectares of pollinators dependent crops: The 1.2 million managed honeybee colonies that currently exist are currently insufficient to meet the crop pollination demands leading to potential loss of yield and profit. There is a significant opportunity, therefore to enhance production through improved pollination by wild pollinator communities. Mango and Moringa are two major crops that are highly dependent on insect pollination and would be ideal crops in which to adapt and tailor specific interventions already used in UK production systems. Mango cultivation covers 1,327,000 hectares in Tamil Nadu with a net income of ~$6500 (USD) per hectare per annum. Moringa crops cover 13,250 hectares in the same state with a net income of ~$4000 (USD) per hectare per annum. These two crops therefore form an important part of small holder livelihoods in the state of Tamil Nadu in India which lies in a semi-arid agro-ecosystem, especially in the context of climate change. The Reading team have strong partnerships with key Indian organisations M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and Reddiarchatram Seed Grower's Association(RSGA) which have been used to co-develop this project and ensure effective translation of our BBSRC research findings into Indian production systems. During a recent GCRF Equitable Partnerships project, we identified sites, farming systems and collected preliminary data to create the conditions to ensure successful translation of work into these new systems. This project will adopt an inter-sectional approach in the field for inclusion across genders. We aim to adapt floral interventions proven to be effective across a range of EU crops to enhance the abundance and diversity of wild pollinators within Indian crop systems and assess potential additional benefits to farmers such as fodder for cattle, secondary economic benefit from sale of flowers or produce, and / or enhanced pest regulation. The choice of the specific floral interventions will be decided based on discussions with local experts and men and women farmers who will be the key end-users of these approaches. This project will form the basis of a road-map for the wider roll out of this approach to other insect pollinated crops across India and in other ODA countries.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-BB_T012323_1
Start Date:
2020-07-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
GCRF Building capacity for sustainable interactions with marine ecosystems for health, wellbeing, food and livelihoods of coastal communities
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Seas and coasts and the nature that lives in them provide multiple services (e.g. farmed and wild capture protein-rich seafood for local consumption and sale, coastal flood and storm defences, tourism, leisure, marine renewable energy, transport and climate regulation) that can be exploited or are passively used to support local economies and the health and well-being of coastal communities. Yet, there is an increasing demand for ocean space resulting from expanding use of the marine environment, and a growing awareness that much of the marine environment is deteriorating. In response a need for marine planning (MP) has grown globally to ensure sustainable use of marine space and extraction of its resources. This is particularly evident in E and SE Asia, where conflicts over marine space and resources are growing, added to by pressures of population growth The capacity to implement MP throughout E and SE Asia is largely lacking and presents an overarching challenge: to improve the integrated management of marine and coastal environments to reduce conflict between users, mitigate risks associated with expanded or new uses, and protect fragile ecosystems while supporting livelihoods, food security, health and well-being of coastal communities. We will achieve this through collaborative international, interdisciplinary research, training and capacity building. Activities will focus on learning-by-doing among researchers, local stakeholders, and local communities to deliver research outcomes with potential for impact. We have five sub-challenges to address, aligning with three UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG1 no poverty; SDG2 zero hunger; and SDG3 good health and well-being): Challenge 1: Promote sustainable harvesting by reducing overexploitation of seafood and degradation of the environments, and promoting sustainable management of wild capture seafood and production of seafood through aquaculture. Challenge 2: Prepare for climate change by understanding its direct and indirect effects on coastal communities and anticipating and mitigating the impacts e.g. coastal wetlands, reefs and mangroves dampen the effects of flooding, storms and tsunamis; their management plays a key role on human wellbeing beyond being sources of food. Challenge 3: Promote good health: we aim to show how improved management of marine ecosystems may promote health and wellbeing benefits, including but not limited to food and nutrition, and reduce the health risks that arise from degraded and overexploited ecosystems. Challenge 4: Identify opportunities for future growth: improved management can provide additional, sustainable, opportunities for growth via technologies such as marine renewable energy. We will need to recognise and account for synergies and trade-offs among uses of the marine environment under MP. Challenge 5: Co-development and implementation of MP: marine plans need to be culturally-acceptable, facilitate growth of, and reduce risks to and conflicts among users of the marine environment, and simultaneously contribute to improving livelihoods, health and wellbeing and ensuring sustainable use of marine ecosystems. We will focus research, (and learning-by-doing), on case studies in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and China and marine protected areas in Malaysia. Ultimately this project will deliver economic, social, health and wellbeing and environmental benefits to coastal communities in SE Asia via co-development of local research capacity, stakeholder engagement, and application of contextually relevant tools for MP that will endure well beyond the four-year programme. We anticipate a future where people can rely on restored and more resilient marine ecosystems that can be used sustainably to support and improve livelihoods. Delivery of that objective will in turn create durable collaborations between academic and non-academic partners to deliver research with transformative impact.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-NE_P021107_2
Start Date:
2020-07-02
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£3,225,534.84
Intercultural models to improve nutrition and health of indigenous populations through gender-sensitive agroforestry practices in Peru
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
High levels of food insecurity and malnutrition persist in Peru, particular amongst remote indigenous populations. The Government of Peru has expressed its commitment to addressing this inequity, through inclusive health services which accommodate cultural diversity. For indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, local health systems often reflect an integrated understanding of the world. Many households practise agroforestry, in which trees are included in agricultural systems. This not only provides income and supports local ecosystems, but also influences human nutrition and health. Potential positive and negative effects of agroforestry on human nutrition and health have been described, but there has been little research to document these impacts. Beyond the products derived from trees, crops and livestock, agroforestry systems can also support wild biodiversity of plants and animals which contribute to food and nutrition security in various ways across seasons. There is a particular need to understand how women's involvement in agroforestry affects their nutritional status, time use, care-giving behaviours and household diets. The goal of our research is to work with indigenous communities involved in coffee- and cocoa-based agroforestry, and with local public health, agriculture and forestry institutions, to co-develop options to improve nutrition and health in the Peruvian Amazon. Our approach will focus on strategies which are appropriate to local conditions and cultures, and which respond to the priorities and interests of women. The early stages of our project will build an in-depth understanding of the social and ecological setting (including how this has changed in recent decades) and community members' perceptions and priorities relating to nutrition and health. We will develop an inventory of agroforestry practices, including the roles of men and women; the spectrum of local plant and animal biodiversity which contribute to food and nutrition security; and the ways in which these contribute to food and nutrition security at different times of the year. We will also document the roles and time spent by women in agroforestry and other household activities, including care-giving and food preparation. Through a study of children under five years and their mothers, we will measure nutritional status (including height, weight and anaemia status), and the nutritional adequacy of diets during the rainy and dry seasons. We will evaluate the influence of agroforestry practices, use of wild biodiversity and women's time use on the nutritional status and diets of women and children. Our research aims to use the information collected to map the multiple pathways by which agroforestry systems, and their associated biodiversity, are linked to human nutrition and health, and how this relates to environmental sustainability. The final stages of our project focus on devising effective and acceptable strategies to address identified nutrition and health challenges. We will formulate food-based recommendations to be trialled with women of different cultural groups, and develop context-appropriate extension materials to guide households in following these recommendations. At community workshops, research findings will be presented and discussed, and collaborative approaches used to co-design, prioritise and evaluate different strategies to improve nutrition and health. This project responds to the Peruvian Government's priority to better meet the nutrition and health needs of indigenous populations, and to increase the holistic and inclusive nature of national health services. By combining diverse research expertise with community knowledge and interests, and by building an evidence-based understanding of how to harness agroforestry systems in support of nutrition and health, this project has the potential to inform sustainable strategies using approaches which may be replicated in other regions of Peru.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--Newton-MR_S024727_1
Start Date:
2019-04-19
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£586,834.37