Scales of variability, human-environment interactions, and patterns in agrolandscapes (A03)

• Subject Area: Plant Cultivation, Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Technology ; Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Sociology ; Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management
• Term: from 2018 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328966760

The Tanzanian government aims to meet growing food demand through crop intensification in the Kilombero floodplain. While this strategy may enhance regional production, it neglects variability in the resource base and thus may no longer meet the multiple demands of diverse actors. Variability in diverse attributes affect individual and larger scale risks and uncertainties. We employ disciplinary and integrated modelling approaches to understand dynamics linked to social-ecological transformations, spatial-temporal patterns and coupling and decoupling processes connected to crop intensification.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 228: Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Mathias Becker; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Mariele Evers; Professor Dr. Thomas Heckelei