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

该奖项为参与由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（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由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组成的高层组织。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。face - jpi汇集了21个国家，致力于建立一个一体化的欧洲研究区，解决可持续农业、粮食安全和环境变化影响等相互关联的挑战。贝尔蒙特论坛和face - jpi国家在八国集团研究理事会首脑制定的供资框架下参与了这一倡议。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face - jpi为寻求提供行动所需知识的研究项目提供支持，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。该小组将使用远耦合框架——在遥远的距离上不同尺度上耦合的人类和自然系统之间的社会经济和环境相互作用——来检查粮食安全和土地利用之间的反馈。该项目的成果包括提高了预测粮食流动和土地利用变化影响的能力；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.