1. Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
A research project of the Institute for Advanced
Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam, Germany,
implemented in five countries: Benin, Burkina Faso,
Ethiopia, Kenya and India.
Soil Protection and
Rehabilitation
for Food Security
The research project cooperates with the “soil protec-
tion and rehabilitation for food security” program of
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenar-
beit (GIZ) GmbH and receives financial support from
the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperati-
on and Development (BMZ).
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
Contacts
Project coordinator
Dr. Anne Flohr
anne.flohr@iass-potsdam.de
Co-Coordinator
Carolin Sperk
carolin.sperk@iass-potsdam.de
Case studies of Benin and Burkina Faso
Larissa Stiem
larissa.stiem@iass-potsdam.de
Case study of Ethiopia
Girum Getachew Alemu
GirumGetachew.Alemu@iass-potsdam.de
Case study of Kenya
Serah Kiragu
serah.kiragu@iass-potsdam.de
Case study of India
Keerthi Kiran Bandru
keerthikiran.bandru@iass-potsdam.de
Project administration
Katrin Wlucka
katrin.wlucka@iass-potsdam.de
IASS Potsdam
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e. V.
Berliner Straße 130
14467 Potsdam
Germany
Telephone: +49 331-28822-427
www.iass-potsdam.de/en
3. Biophysical context
Equitable access to use of (land) resources, short- and long-term profit-
ability as well as durable soil health should be pursued as simultaneous
objectives of sustainable land management. Only such a comprehensive
approach can ensure that technological soil protection measures serve
food security in the long term. Achieving these objectives depends on
factors such as availability of technologies or access to effective extension
services. The impacting factors will have to be identified separately for
each concrete locality as they depend on the respective biophysical, socio-
economic, cultural and political context. The accompanying research in its
country case studies, thus, focuses on identifying the influential factors
and on developing pathways and processes for overcoming hindrances to
sustainable land management.
Durablesoilhea
lth
Short- and
long-termprofitability
Equitable access to and
benefits from (land) resources
Political/governance context
Culturalcontext
Socio-economiccontext
Technologies
Financingmechanisms
Rural services and infrastructure
Sustainable soil
protection and
rehabilitation for
long-term
food security
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Research Focus