GECAFS interactions with Sponsoring Programmes

GECAFS

Goal

To describe and understand the interactive physical, chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system.

8 Core Projects, 3 directly related to IGP food systems:

Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE)

Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC; jointly with IHDP)

International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)A programme of the International Council for Science (ICSU)

• How do human actions contribute to GEC?• Why are these actions taken?• How does GEC feedback into peoples’ lives?• What actions can be taken by whom to respond to, reduce and mitigate

GEC?

 4 International Science Projects, all directly related to food systems:

Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC, co-sponsored with IGBP)Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC)Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS)Industrial Transformation (IT)

International Human Dimensions Programme of Global Environmental Change (IHDP)

A programme of the International Social Science Council (ISSC)

5 International Science Projects,

1 directly related to food systems:

CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability)

 Goals

To describe and understand climate variability and predictability on seasonal to centennial time-scales,

Identify the physical processes responsible, including anthropogenic effects, and

Develop modelling and predictive capabilities where practicable.

World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)

How they work:

• scientific research

• research capacity-building

• integration and synthesis

• international scientific networks

IGBP IHDPWCRP

Carbon Food Water