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Collaborative Project BioTip (2): Understanding and Managing Desertification Tipping Points – A Namibian Perspective. Subproject 2: Primary production and soil seed bank (NamTip)
Project
Project code: 01LC1821B
Contract period: 01.03.2019
- 28.02.2021
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: Drylands; savannas; desertification; tipping points; Namibia; social-ecological systems; pastoralism; rangeland ecology
In the NamTip project, scientists and stakeholders collaborate closely to gain a better understanding of the most important tipping point for dryland ecosystems worldwide, i.e. the tipping point at the threshold to desertification. It will generate the necessary scientific foundation to understand the development of desertification tipping points; make use of those findings to develop suitable early warning systems; explore desertification impacts on local people’s livelihood; and finally transfer and implement the scientific findings into management interventions in order to prevent the desertification tipping point.
Section overview
Subjects
- Grassland
- Agroecology
- Agricultural Sociology
Framework programme
BMBF - FONA (Research for Sustainable Development) - Research Framework Programme for Sustainability
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Funding institution
Project management agencies
Associated projects: NamTip
- Collaborative Project BioTip (2): Understanding and Managing Desertification Tipping Points – A Namibian Perspective. Subproject 1: Coordination, vegetation and soil
- Collaborative Project BioTip (2): Understanding and Managing Desertification Tipping Points – A Namibian Perspective. Subproject 3: Socio-cultural implications
- Collaborative Project BioTip (2): Understanding and Managing Desertification Tipping Points – A Namibian Perspective. Subproject 4: Scenario development and modelling of management options
- Collaborative Project BioTip (2): Understanding and Managing Desertification Tipping Points – A Namibian Perspective. Subproject 5: Social-ecological processes and farmers‘ knowledge