Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Food Security and Land Use: The Telecoupling Challenge

该奖项为参与一个项目的美国研究人员提供支持，该项目是由14个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛和欧洲农业、粮食安全和全球变化联合规划倡议（FACCE-JPI）进行全球变化研究的倡议竞争性选择的。贝尔蒙特论坛是全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的世界主要和新兴资助者的高级别小组。 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。FACCE-JPI汇集了21个国家，致力于建立一个综合的欧洲研究区，解决可持续农业，粮食安全和环境变化影响的相互关联的挑战。贝尔蒙特论坛和非洲经济共同体-日本投资促进机构国家在八国集团研究理事会负责人制定的筹资框架下参加了这一倡议。该框架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FACCE-JPI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，以减轻和适应与粮食安全有关的有害环境变化和极端危险事件，土地利用变化。 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）。 该项目汇集了来自四个不同国家的研究人员和利益相关者。该小组将使用远距离耦合框架-在不同尺度上远距离耦合的人类和自然系统之间的社会经济和环境相互作用-来审查粮食安全和土地利用之间的反馈。这一项目的成果包括：提高了预测粮食流动和土地使用变化影响的能力;以及促进政策变化的工具，这些政策变化将改善粮食生产和分配，同时确保更可持续的环境。

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 European Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Global 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. FACCE-JPI brings together 21 countries committed to building an integrated European Research Area addressing the interconnected challenges of sustainable agriculture, food security and impacts of enviornmental change. Belmont Forum and FACCE-JPI countries participated in this initiative under a funding framework developed by the G8 Heads of Research Councils. This framework supports 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.The Belmont Forum and FACCE-JPI 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 brings together researchers and stakeholders from four different countries. The team will use the framework of telecoupling - socioeconomic and environmental interactions among coupled human and natural systems at different scales over great distances - to examine feedbacks between food security and land use. Results of this project include an enhanced capacity to predict effects from shifts in food flows and land use; and tools to facilitate policy changes that will improve food production and distribution while ensuring a more sustainable environment.