Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Cultures, Behaviours and Histories of Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Call 2

The AHRC has issued the second of two calls to support international, interdisciplinary research partnerships, as part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund (UKRI GCRF) Programme.

The funding call will support fair and equitable partnership building activities which will develop interdisciplinary research capacity and capability in the UK and developing countries, jointly and collaboratively and across career stages, and link this to development policy and practice.

Thematic Scope

By investing more resources into understanding cultures, traditions, behaviours and social movements the organisation aims to enable more effective, ethical, sustainable and contextually-driven development outcomes in food systems encompassing:

• Production (Agriculture and Aquaculture)
• Processing
• Transport
• Consumption
• Disposal

In order to facilitate inter-disciplinary innovation and co-design between UK and LMIC partners, the call is deliberately open in scope and broad in its remit with regard to all stages across food systems. Applications on any relevant topic are welcomed across all stages of food systems. This includes the above listed areas and the interconnections between them.

Some examples of potential themes are provided below simply to illustrate some of the potential breadth. The call will not prioritise applications which address these themes nor will it de-prioritise those which do not. All applications will be considered equally against the eligibility and assessment criteria.

• Gender dynamics of food and nutrition
• Community dynamics around food and diet
• Collective memories of food shocks and their impact on policy/practice
• Diseases related to food practices
• Coping with climate, weather and environmental risks in food systems

Applications must explore the intersection of culture, context, history, behaviours or societal change with the food systems chain and have the potential to lead to changes in food systems which will support the development or welfare of people in LMICs on the OECD DAC list of ODA recipient countries (http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/daclist.htm)

The AHRC is collating a contact list of researchers interested in forming partnerships and finding others working in similar areas. You can view the current list on their Partnership Building Contact List (PDF, 956KB) (updated: 22/10/19). If you would like your details to be added to this list, the AHRC has asked that you please complete the Partnership Building form.