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Formas grants to global research projects at SLU
Published: 23 November 2020
Several global projects from SLU recently received grants from Formas.
Formas’ 2020 annual open call offers two types of grants to apply for: Research projects and Research projects for early-career researchers.
Two of the global projects that received Formas' 2020 grant for research project:
Ewa Wredle, Management and restoration towards healthy rangelands in East Africa, 3 MSEK.
About the project: The overall goal is to identify restoration interventions and management practices that promote healthy, productive and sustainable rangelands. The outcomes will be improved livestock productivity, soil health, hydrological functioning and the provision of ecosystem services at large, leading to better food and water security and enhanced livelihoods.
Read more about Ewa Wredle
Kristina Marquardt, What is secondary about secondary forest? Building smallholder forest futures in Peru’s Amazonian frontier, 3 MSEK
About the project: This research will investigate what sorts of Amazonian forest futures can be built and for whom, in a context where the government’s authority and legitimacy is limited. We will explore land use practices, processes of deforestation and re-growth in contexts of territorial struggles.
Read more about Kristina Marquardt
A global project that received Formas' 2020 grant for research project for early-career researchers:
Rosa Goodman, Toward a future of wood cities and restored forests — modelling pathways for development of a new forest industry in the Global South, 3 999 078 SEK
About the project: We propose a novel Wood Building–Forest Restoration system to meet the urgent calls to stop and reverse climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and inequality and instead transition to a fair and sustainable bio-based economy. We call for future urban growth to be met with modern engineered wood building, and for this new market to drive large-scale forest restoration and emergence of regional forest-based industries. We focus on the Global South, where the majority of urban growth, deforestation, and forest degradation occur.
Read more about Rosa Goodman