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Global Food Security:Biophysical and Social Limits and Opportunities

Monday, November 7, 201110:00 17:00

The Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesBeijer Hall, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm

Organizers: The Swedish National Committee for Geography (within the RoyalSwedish Academy of Sciences, KVA), Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies(LUCSUS) and the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI). SIANIis hosted by the Stockholm Environment Institute and funded by Sida.

Colloquium Goals:This one day conference will bring together international leaders in their field withearly career researchers in Sweden working on global food security from bothbiophysical and socioeconomic perspectives. The keynote speaker will articulate thekey challenges to global food security and highlight the latest trends and projections,as well as innovative solutions, while the early career researchers will presentempirical work addressing these challenges from global to local scales. The goal is tostrengthen connections between academic researchers, government policymakers,and practitioners in working towards a shared agenda of a more sustainable andequitable global food system.

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Global Food Security:Biophysical and Social Limits and Opportunities

Colloquium Programme

10:00 10:05 Colloquium Introduction and GoalsKimberly Nicholas, Lund University

10:05 10:15 Presentation of the Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth SystemsScienceDan Wilhelmsson, SSEESS/KVA

10:15 11:15 Invited Keynote: �“Solutions for a Cultivated Planet�”Jonathan Foley, University of Minnesota

11:15 11:30 Fika

Global Perspectives on Food Security

11:30 12:00 �“Global Livestock Production and Food Security Through the Water Lens�”Mats Lannerstad, Stockholm Environment Institute

12:00 12:30 �“Opportunities and tradeoffs for global cropland intensification�”Nathan Mueller, Swedish Research Council Fellow, Stockholm ResilienceCentre

12:30 13:00 �“Challenging the food vs. fuel dilemma: genealogical analysis of the biofueldiscourse pursued by international organizations�”Magdalena Kuchler, Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research (CSPR),Linköping University

13:00 14:00 Lunch provided for registered conference attendees

Empirical Cases in Food Security in Africa

14:00 14:30 �“�‘Because of Poverty, We Had to Come Together�’ Collective Action forImproved Food Security in Rural Kenya and Uganda�”Elina Andersson and Sara Gabrielsson, Lund University Centre of Excellencefor Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability

14:30 15:00 �“Impact of Illness and Death on Household Food Consumption �– aLongitudinal Study�”Jovita Amurwon, Department of Urban and Rural Development, SwedishUniversity of Agricultural Sciences

15:00 15:30 �“Dispute, Conflict or living together in harmony? Bean Theft and Cultivationin Rural Ethiopia�”Tesfanesh Zekiwos Gichamo, Rural Development and Natural ResourceManagement, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

15:30 15:45 Fika

15:45 16:15 �“Agricultural Water Management for Improved Food Security: A SocialNetwork Approach �“Christian Stein, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University

16:15 17:00 Panel Discussion with All Presenters and Conclusion

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Speaker Biographies

Kimberly Nicholas is an Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science atthe Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies in Lund, Sweden.Kim�’s research motivation is to understand what human changes tothe Earth�’s climate and land surface will mean for the future of theecosystems on which we depend, and how we can better balancehuman needs with sustaining the planet�’s life support systems. Sheuses observational, experimental, modeling and synthesis approachesto study how climate variability and change affect crop development,yields and quality, with particular emphasis on the wine industry;climate adaptation and food security; land use, biodiversity, andecosystem services; and the theory, practice, and pedagogy ofsustainability science. Her interest in agriculture is rooted in

five generations of family farming in her hometown of Sonoma, California. She holds a PhD inthe Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources from Stanford University and anMS in Viticulture (Horticulture and Agronomy) from the University of California, Davis.

Dan Wilhelmsson is Scientific Coordinator at the Swedish Secretariatfor Environmental Earth System Sciences (SSEESS), dealing with abroad set of global environmental change issues, including researchcapacity building and collaboration with decision makers. SSEESS is acollaboration between the four major research councils in Sweden,The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the SwedishInternational Development Agency. Dan is also Vice Chair ofEuropean Alliance of National Global Change Research Committee.Being marine ecologist by training, Dan has also been working withissues around sustainable resource use (e.g. fisheries, alternativelivelihoods for fisher families), conservation, and monitoring ofcoastal natural resources, including policy advice, for more than a

decade. He is also working on the environmental risks and opportunities of offshore wind andwave energy, including both field surveys and scientific reviews. He was regional coordinatorfor the Coastal Ocean Research and Development program in South Asia and assistantcoordinator for the intergovernmental organization ICRI for a number of years. Dan has alsobeen Scientific Coordinator at IUCN Global Marine Programme and a consultant.

Jonathan Foley is the director of the Institute on theEnvironment (IonE) at the University of the Minnesota, where he is aprofessor and McKnight Presidential Chair in the Department ofEcology, Evolution and Behavior. He also leads the IonE�’s GlobalLandscapes Initiative.

Foley�’s work focuses on complex global environmental systems andtheir interactions with human societies. He and his students havecontributed to our understanding of global scale ecologicalprocesses, global patterns of land use, the behavior of the planet�’sclimate and water cycles, and the sustainability of our biosphere. This

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work has led him to be a regular advisor to large corporations, NGOs and governmentsaround the world.

Foley joined the University of Minnesota in 2008, after spending 15 years on the faculty ofthe University of Wisconsin, where he founded the Center for Sustainability and the GlobalEnvironment. He and his colleagues have published over 100 articles in the scientificliterature, including highly cited work in Science, Nature and the Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences. He has also written many popular articles and essays, including piecesin the New York Times, Scientific American, SEED, E360, the Guardian, and elsewhere.

Mats Lannerstad holds a Ph.D. in Water and Environmental Studiesfrom the Department of Water and Environmental Studies atLinköping University, where he was partly stationed at theInternational Water Management Institute HQ in Colombo, Sri Lankafrom 2003 2007. He also holds a M.Sc. in Environmental Engineeringand Sustainable Infrastructure, and a M.Sc. in Biology/ Limnology.Since September 2009 he has been employed as Research Fellow atSEI Stockholm. Mats participates in research projects both within SEIand with outside partners, like analyzing linkages between the MDGs

and ecosystem services, and how international biofuel policies locally impact water resourcesand livelihoods in Indonesia and Tanzania. In a joint larger research study together with theInternational Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi (ILRI) and The Potsdam Institute forClimate Impact Research (PIK), a global analysis of global livestock water productivity hasbeen carried out. Mats is the project leader and one of ten co authors of the book�“Confronting the water challenge in a turbulent world: A green blue resilience approach forglobal sustainability�” that attempts at advancing our understanding of integrated waterresource governance and management in the context of cross scale dynamics and feedbacks,global change processes, social ecological resilience and green blue water resourcemanagement in agricultural landscapes.

Nathan Mueller is a visiting researcher at the Stockholm ResilienceCentre and a PhD student at the University of Minnesota. Hisresearch analyzes the complex feedbacks between agriculturalintensification and global environmental change using spatial dataanalysis and modeling. Nathan received his bachelor�’s degree inbiology and environmental studies from St. Olaf College, and was aresearch assistant with the U.S. EPA before starting graduate school.

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Magdalena Kuchler is a PhD candidate at the Department ofThematic Studies Water and Environmental Studies and the Centrefor Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping University. Herresearch focuses on the international politics of bioenergy, as well asfood production, energy security and climate change. Drawing fromtwo theoretical traditions of post structuralism and neo Marxismshe uses discourse analysis and text deconstruction as her mainresearch methods. The primary aim of here analytical work is tounravel and compare how international organizations in relation to

their specific goals and tasks discuss and frame bioenergy as a potential solution to energyinsecurity, agricultural crisis, and climate change mitigation.

Björn Ola Linnér is professor in Water and Environmental Studies andat the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at LinköpingUniversity, Sweden. Currently, he is a visiting fellow at the Institutefor Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) at Oxford University�’s SaïdBusiness School. His research focuses on international policy makingon climate change, food security and sustainable development. Hisrecent publications analyse integration of policies on climate change,sustainable development and low carbon energy technologies as wellas climate visualisation, transnational governance andutopian/dystopian thought in climate science and policy. Publishedbooks include among others "The Return of Malthus:Environmentalism and Postwar Population�–Resource Crises".

Elina Andersson is a PhD student in Sustainability Science at the LundUniversity Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). Her workexplores changing land management strategies among smallholderfarmers in Uganda as a response to land degradation. The key focus ison the roles of collective action and local innovation for soilimprovement.

Sara Gabrielsson is currently in the last stages of her PhD inSustainability Science at the Lund University Centre for SustainabilityStudies (LUCSUS). Proceeding from a framework of climatevulnerability, her research project focuses specifically onunderstanding how smallholder farmers in the Lake Victoria basin ofKenya and Tanzania face and respond to multiple stressors, includingclimate variability and change under restrictive political, ecological,cultural and economic circumstances.

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Jovita Amurwon is currently a postgraduate student (doctoralcandidate) at the Division of Urban and Rural Development, SwedishUniversity for Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. Her researchfocuses on survival mechanisms of rural based populations in Uganda.She worked as a Health Economist with the Medical Research Council,Entebbe, Uganda.

Tesfanesh Zekiwos Gichamo received BA degree in Economics fromDebub University, Hawassa, Ethiopia and MSc. in Rural Developmentand Natural Resource Management from Swedish University ofAgricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. She has worked as a director inchild development project with Compassion International Ethiopia.Currently she is writing a thesis for the masters program in Economics inSödertörn University, Stockholm.

Christian Stein is a research fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre(SRC). His research focuses on the social dimension of water resourcesmanagement and the tradeoffs between water for agriculture and otherecosystem services. He uses network analysis as an analytical approachto explore how social relationships influence natural resourcesgovernance processes and outcomes in agro ecosystems. His researchactivities currently focus on Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Zambia. Beforejoining SRC Christian worked for the Stockholm Environment Institute(SEI) in a project on agricultural water management. Christian holds an

MSc in Ecosystems, Governance and Globalisation and a Diploma in Business and Engineeringin Environmental Science. Before moving to Stockholm he worked for the Potsdam Institutefor Climate Impact Research (PIK).

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