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

该奖项为参与由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（face - jpi）发起的14国全球变化研究项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个世界性的高层组织。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。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速进行最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。该小组制定了一个资助框架，以支持以超出国家或双边活动能力的方式解决全球挑战的多边研究项目。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。贝尔蒙特论坛和jpi - face合作，为研究项目提供了支持，这些项目寻求提供行动所需的知识，以减轻和适应与粮食安全和土地利用变化有关的有害环境变化和极端危险事件。该奖项为美国研究人员在联盟中合作提供支持，该联盟由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户（如政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）聚集在一起。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所带来的环境和社会效益和权衡，及其对土地利用和粮食安全的更广泛影响。该项目将重点关注农业经济体，特别是那些面临提高资源效率和增强抵御能力压力的经济体。该小组将查明和评估促进甘蔗产量增加的因素；这种增加的产量如何影响土地利用、水资源和生态系统，以及与土地利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.