Published on 31 January 2024. Hits: 155
The Urban Food Resilience under Climate Change Challenges (UrbanFOSC) project leverages partners in the Netherlands, France, Algeria, Kenya, and South Africa to build models based on existing climate data and ground-truth methodologies that will predict climate scenarios impacting local and international food value chains.
The impact of climate change has contributed to increase urbanization and challenges in agricultural production. This has been problematic for food and nutrition security.
Funded as a Food System and Climate (FOSC) ERA-NET Cofund (African Union and European Union funding) from 2021 to 2024, UrbanFOSC project brings together five research partners: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, University of the Western Cape in South Africa (UWC), Cirad in France, Moi University in Kenya and University of Constantine 3 in Algeria. The project operates in three secondary city-regions: Breede Valley Municipality (BVM) area with a focus on Worcester in South Africa; Nakuru in Kenya; Constantine in Algeria. The present Terms of Reference (ToR) are developed by Cirad in partnership with the Moi University and apply to Nakuru county. See the ToRs linked below.
Moi University as one of the partners in the UrbanFOSC project is the lead for the food system mapping and the co-lead for network models of food systems. Moi University will lead the case study in Nakuru County.
Applications from interested Students and Consultants are invited to submit their applications as per the requirements below:
