EXTREME-LOSS Agricultural Workers’ Livelihoods under Climate Change-Related Extreme Weather Events and Biodiversity Loss
Duration 2025 - 2028
The Extreme-Loss research project aims to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration and lay the groundwork for future research through a pilot study, joint publications, and the development of larger research funding applications.
In the Extreme-Loss project, we start a new collaboration between MECW, BECC, and MERGE to explore the following broad research question: How can we build a nexus that explains the impacts of climate change-related extreme weather events, i.e. floods and droughts, and their interaction with loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, on agricultural workers and their livelihoods?
Expected Outcomes and Strategic Directions
Seed funding for Extreme-Loss would foster our collaboration and lead to sustained research development in three key ways:
- Creating a multidisciplinary dialogue and interaction between each other and our SRAs
- Conducting a pilot study in Konya, a province in the inner-Anatolia zone of Turkey that provides 10% of the country’s total agricultural production, and preparing manuscript(s) based on the findings
- Co-authoring a research grant proposal to be submitted to national and international research funding bodies, such as Horizon Europe RIA, FORMAS, and Biodiversa.
Publications
Societal impacts of climate stress: An integrated assessment of drought, vulnerability, and conflict in Syria (Link to Lund University Research Portal)