Belmont Forum - European Joint Programming Initiative Collaborative Research: Hydro-social and environmental impacts of sugar cane production on land use and food security

该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，该研究人员通过贝尔蒙特论坛和农业、粮食安全和气候变化联合研究规划倡议（FACCE-JPI）参与由14个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个高层次的世界集团？全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的主要和新兴资助者。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。该小组制定了一个供资框架，以支持以超出国家或双边活动能力的方式应对全球挑战的多边研究项目。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。 这一办法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球意义的专题进行最好通过多国办法加以处理的出色研究，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。贝尔蒙特论坛和JPI-FACCE为研究项目提供了支持，这些项目旨在提供采取行动所需的知识，以减轻和适应与以下方面有关的有害环境变化和极端危险事件：粮食安全和土地使用变化。 该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，使他们能够在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作，并将自然科学家，社会科学家和研究用户（例如，政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）。 该项目将涉及来自英国，美国，印度，巴西，南非和澳大利亚的研究人员，他们将共同努力建立一个国际网络，以了解甘蔗生产在全球持续扩张中产生的环境和社会效益以及权衡，以及其对土地使用和粮食安全的更广泛影响。该项目将侧重于农业经济，特别是那些面临提高资源效率和增强复原力压力的经济。 该小组将查明和评估促使甘蔗产量增加的因素;产量增加如何影响土地使用、水资源和生态系统，以及与土地使用方式有关的广泛的社会经济影响、利益和权衡。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 14-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum and The Joint Research Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI). The Belmont Forum is a high level group of the world?s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research and international science councils. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. This group developed a funding framework to support multilateral research projects that address global challenges in ways that are beyond the capacity of national or bilateral activities. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together the Belmont Forum and JPI-FACCE have provided support for research projects that seek to deliver knowledge needed for action to mitigate and adapt to detrimental environmental change and extreme hazardous events that relate to food security and land use change. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). This project will involve researchers from the UK, USA, India, Brazil, South Africa and Australia who will work together to develop an international network to understand the environmental and social benefits and trade-offs that arise through the continued global expansion of sugarcane production, and its broader consequences for land use and food security. The project will focus on the agricultural economies especially those that under pressure to improve resource efficiency and increase resilience. The group will identify and assess the factors contributing to increased sugar cane production; how this increased production is affecting land-use, water resources and ecosystems and the broad-range of socio-economic impacts, benefits and tradeoffs related to how the land is being used.