This $615,394 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) supports the participation of three U.S. universities in an international collaboration to co-design climate-smart indigenous food gardens in South African schools. The project aims to integrate indigenous and local ecological knowledge with climate modeling to develop climate-smart gardening practices and improve child health, climate literacy, and community-based climate adaptation in marginalized communities. Key activities include interventions on child wellbeing, development of climate-smart indigenous food gardens, and creation of a scalable model for community-based climate adaptation through gardening. The grant involves collaboration with South African governmental and community partners, and will produce outcomes to impact nutrition, climate literacy, and land relations. Subawards are planned as part of this multi-year project running from June 2024 to May 2027.
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