The Belmont Forum is collaborating with the European Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Changethrough an International Opportunities Fund to call for inter-disciplinary research proposals on ‘food security and land use change’. The call provides an opportunity for international research teams/consortia to contribute to addressing the challenges of complex interactions among the forces and processes influencing or influenced by food security dynamics and land use change phenomena.
The Belmont Forum is a platform established by some of the world’s major funders of global change research, including the National Research Fund and the Department of Science and Technology, to mobilise international resources and expertise in order to drive global environmental research for earth system sustainability.
In order to make progress against the Belmont Challenge and help deliver international collaboration, the Belmont Forum agreed to develop collaborative research actions with a view to:
- Address the Belmont Challenge priorities (i.e. societally-relevant global environmental change challenges);
- Lever Belmont Forum members existing investments through international added value; and
- Bring together new partnerships of natural scientists, social scientists, and users.
The call offers two types of projects:
- Type 1/community-building projects.
- Type 2/medium- to long-term integrated projects.
Deadlines
The closing date for the submission of full proposals (type 1) and pre-proposals (type 2) is 30 September 2013.
Notification for the submission of full proposals (type 2): November 2013.
The closing date for the submission of full proposals (type 2) is February 2014.
