The social ecology of system shifts in savanna environments (B01)

• Subject Area: Plant Cultivation, Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Technology ; Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Sociology
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328966760

The project will focus on assessing and predicting future invasive spread dynamics and related effects on soil attribute changes, and analyse determinants and consequences of “infrastructuring” and of emerging agricultural land uses and management strategies. B01 expands the analysis towards understanding how changes in invasive species affect households’ aspirations and future-oriented investments through panel analysis and behavioural economic experiments. Finally, the project will jointly assess system shifts and the emergence of patterns of land use in Baringo and beyond.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 228: Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Mathias Becker; Professor Dr. Thomas Heckelei; Dr. Hellen Mwaura-Kamiri, since 1/2022