Institute of Geography

Research

Land Systems and Sustainable Land Management Group

Research Projects of the Group for Land Systems and Sustainable Land Management

All Projects

LucFRes - Land-use change and the resilience of food production systems

Finanzierung: H2020-EU. 1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Sklodowska -Curie Actions (Main Programme)
Mitarbeitende: Dr. Felicia Akinyemi, Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

Photo Credits: Mokhammad Edliadi, CIFOR-ICRAF

SUSTAINFORESTS - Tropical forest patches under pressure: Dynamics, functions and sustainable management in agricultural landscapes of the West African forest and savannah zones 

Funding: ERC Consolidator Grant 2020
Team: Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Dr. Felicia Akinyemi, Dr. Vladimir Ruslan Wingate, Chima Iheaturu, Samuel Hepner, Georges Alex Agonvonon, Paule Pamela Tabi Eckebil, Frank Mintah

Virtual Food Sustainability Academy (VFSA) - Training, practising, and disseminating participatory food system assessments in Latin America and Africa

Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation
Team: Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

Agricultural land change and implications for food security in smallholder agriculture regions

Finanzierung: University of Bern, Switzerland. In the context of the Seal of Excellence Fund (SELF)
Mitarbeitende: Dr. Felicia Akinyemi, Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

Soil spectroscopy for assessing sustainable land management

Funding: Unit Land Systems and Sustainable Land Management, University of Bern
Personnel: Simon Oberholzer,  Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

Exploring pathways for transformation to sustainability using the safe and just operating space concept at regional level (SUccESS):

Funding: Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017: 796994), European Commission. 
Personnel: Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Dr. Md Sarwar Hossain 

Social-ecological systems modelling and Sustainable Land Management (SSLM):

Funding: Unit Land Systems and Sustainable Land Management, University of Bern
Personnel: Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Dr. Md Sarwar Hossain 

Resilient agriculture-based livelihoods and resilient agricultural landscapes? Adaptation to climate change in African agriculture (RESALL)

Funding: Unit Land Systems and Sustainable Land Management, formerly Ambizione (SNF)
Personnel: Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Joana Eichenberger, Moritz Burger, Lisa Zamudio

Land Degradation and Its impacts on Ecosystem Services in the Nigerian Savannah

Funding: UniBE International 2021 initiative of the Vice-Rectorate Development, University of Bern, Switzerland, Rufford foundation Small grant [27153-1], IDEA WILD equipment grant
Personnel: Ademola Adenle A.,  Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

Exploring the Knowledge Dynamics Associated with Forest Management for Climate Change Adaptation in South Africa

Funding: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and Swiss-African Research Cooperation

Personnel: Dr. Ofoegbu C. and Prof. Dr. Ifejika-Speranza C.

 

Networking and collaborations

  • The unit Sustainable Land Management is a member of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
  • The SLM research group was formed in 1987. Since 1992 it has been directing the WOCAT: World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies http://www.wocat.org/ global soil and water conservation programme, which is run by the interdisciplinary Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Bern as of 1 July 2009.
  • Since 2000, the SLM research group has been hosting the editorial office of Mountain Research and Development (MRD), an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the problems and potentials of the world’s mountain regions http://www.mrd-journal.org/. MRD is hosted by CDE as of 1 July 2009.
  • Management of PhD study programmes within the International Graduate School IGS North-South by T. Breu