{"id":7229,"date":"2023-08-31T07:52:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/?p=7229"},"modified":"2023-08-31T07:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:52:42","slug":"prof-mwaseba-has-won-a-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/news\/prof-mwaseba-has-won-a-project","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Mwaseba has won a project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/prof-dismas-l-mwaseba\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dismas-Mwaseba.jpg\" alt=\"Dismas Mwaseba\" \/>Prof. Mwaseba<\/a> has won a new four-year project funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forskningsradet.no\/en\/\">Norwegian Research Council (NFR)<\/a> titled ECOFOOD: Creating inclusive and sustainable food systems in refugee hosting contexts in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The project will be located in refugee hosting areas in northern Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The primary objective of the project is to assess strategies for facilitating the inclusion of small-scale food producers in the food systems in refugee hosting contexts. Details of the project are provided below:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project title:<\/strong> ECOFOOD: Creating Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems in Refugee Hosting Contexts in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project areas\/cases<\/strong>: Tanzania and Uganda<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding organisation<\/strong>: The Norwegian Research Council<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project period<\/strong>: 2023 to 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partners<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ruralis.no\/en\/\">Ruralis- Institute for Research and Regional Research, Norway<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sua.ac.tz\/\">Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania,<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmbu.no\/en\">Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gu.ac.ug\/\">Gulu University, Uganda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvl.no\/en\/\">Western Norway University of Applied Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Objective and research questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The primary objective of ECOFOOD is to assess strategies for facilitating the inclusion of small-scale food producers in the food system and to enhance food and nutrition security for women and children, climate resilience and biodiversity conservation in refugee-hosting contexts.<\/p>\n<p>With a specific focus on women and youth small-scale food producers in refugee hosting contexts, ECOFOOD will answer the following research questions ECOFOOD will answer the following research questions:<\/p>\n<p>\u2756 Who are the main actors and what are the main features, opportunities and challenges facing the food systems in a refugee hosting context? <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2756 What are the major opportunities and constraints for the effective transfer of innovative and climate resilient practices to women and youth small-scale food producers and their sustainable inclusion in the food system? <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2756 In what ways does protracted displacement influence the capabilities, endowments, and entitlements for farm production and consumption?<\/p>\n<p>\u2756 Which prerequisites must be in place for access to agricultural resources to lead to better nutritional, climate resilience and biodiversity outcomes<strong>?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2756 How can agricultural in general and environmental policies and interventions foster the inclusion of women and youth small-scale food producers in refugee-hosting contexts?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Mwaseba has won a new four-year project funded by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) titled ECOFOOD: Creating inclusive and sustainable food systems in refugee hosting contexts in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The project will be located in refugee hosting areas in northern Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The primary objective of the project is to assess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7230,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions\/7230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}