Delivering Food Security on Limited Land (DEVIL)
The Project
"Delivering Food Security on Limited Land (DEVIL)" aims to tackle one of society’s biggest challenges – feeding a growing population now and in the future on limited land resources.
The project will explore feedbacks and interactions between land use change and food security dynamics using high resolution, spatially disaggregated global models, databases of soils, land-use, crops and livestock and a range of scenarios related to food production and demand side measures.
The 4 year project was selected to be funded by the prestigious Belmont Forum and the FACCE-JPI initiative through a highly competitive process.
Find more information about the research project on the external pageproject website.
Project Partners
The DEVIL project is a partnership between the Scottish Food Security Alliance-Crops (SFSA-C), which is a collaborative venture between the University of Aberdeen, The James Hutton Institute and University of Dundee, and world leading partners from 7 other countries including:
- the University of Minnesota (USA)
- CSIRO (Australia)
- University of Witswatersrand (South Africa)
- the Brazilian Space Agency, INPE (Brazil)
- the Central Rice Research Institute (India)
- INRA (France)
- ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
The project is coordinated by Prof. Pete Smith from the Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences in the College of Life Sciences and Medicine and Prof Deb Roberts from the Business School at the University of Aberdeen and the James Hutton Institute.
World Food System Center
The World Food System Center at ETH Zurich is responsible for the engagement, dialogue and education strategy of the project. This will involve integrating key stakeholders at the global and regional levels into the project from an early stage, through workshops and exchange platforms. The WFSC will coordinate intensive training programs for graduate level students and postdocs from around the world in the framework of the project. The participants will interact with the DEVIL researchers and contribute to the research process by working on project related case studies during the training program.
