Interdisciplinary studies in relation to Food Systems – methodological issues and concerns J. Magid, and Andreas de Neergaard Plant and Soil Laboratory,

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Interdisciplinary studies in relation to Food Systems – methodological issues and concerns J. Magid, and Andreas de Neergaard Plant and Soil Laboratory, Department of Agricultural Sciences; KVL

Key points The SLUSE Consortium Urban areas as ’Super Organisms’ Agricultural production in a Rural – Urban Gradient (Kwa Zulu Natal) Delienating Urban Agriculture as a Food System?

Achievements ( ): The foundation for teaching inter-disciplinary environmental courses has been set up in the three partner universities in Denmark and in the partner consortia in Malaysia, Thailand and southern Africa (MUCED, TUCED and SACUDE SLUSE). SLUSE joint research programs have been set up in Malaysia, Thailand and southern Africa. 12 PhD students within SLUSE In Denmark extensive course catalogues have been set up, and over 300 Danish students have taken or currently attend SLUSE courses at the three universities. In Malaysia 100 students have gone or are going through the M.Sc. training, and of these about 70% were mid-career professionals. The past 2 years have seen an intake of students annually in SLUSE curricula in Thailand. In southern Africa HRD programmes and educational and research activities are now being established in Botswana, South Africa and Swaziland.

Capacity building and HRD

Scientists’ Fantasies? and on problem orientation ? Why this focus on interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinary Research -Staff -Students Action Research -Agencies -Academics -Communities Thesis Dissertation -Graduate students KNOWLEDGE Academic Knowledge Applied Knowledge Academic Curriculum Teaching Training Reports/ Publications Management Policy/Frame work Academic Qualification/ Accreditation Practical Intervention/ Action Plans Sustained Results of Land Use Utilization RESEARCH (Diagram developed jointly by SLUSE consortia partners) Interdisciplinary Research -Staff -Students Action Research -Agencies -Academics -Communities Thesis Dissertation -Graduate students KNOWLEDGE Academic Knowledge Applied Knowledge Academic Curriculum Teaching Training Reports/ Publications Management Policy/Frame work Academic Qualification/ Accreditation Practical Intervention/ Action Plans Sustained Results of RESEARCH (Diagram developed jointly by SLUSE consortia partners) Framework for Research-Based Teaching SLUSE adaptive model

Study area, in this case a watershed, The SLUSE model in action Student field-course Research GA & NGO activities Continued research & development of activities where a number of related activities takes place

The importance of homegardens for household livelyhoods

Succes and failure of community projects

Land use and land distribution

The use and misuse of medicinal plants

Long-term trajectories for soil fertility Time (years) Soil C (t ha -1 ) Century modelling of data from chronosequences in Zimbabwe Harare 5E red clay Zingore, Manyame, Nyamugafata and Giller (2002)

Agricultural production along a rural-urban gradient

Madlangala Umbululu Hammersdale Downtown

Madlangala

Umbululu

Hammersdale

Development housing?

Typologies of urban farming Private gardens “Squatter farming” Community gardens

Key points Extractive urban areas are rapidly changing the face of the earth (GEC) Food production (squatter / private / communal / commercial) in urban and peri- urban areas is a livelyhood issue (700 mio. people) Linkages to health (public and private) issues are crucial

What are the drivers Why do the urbanites use the soil so intensively (economics, health, livelyhoods) ? Does it make sense to study urban/peri-urban food systems (squatter  commercial) ? Can urban areas be managed into becoming more benign (less extractive) superorganisms?