FEW: Transformative Food Technologies to Enhance Sustainability at the Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) Nexus

1619918 Subbiah，Jeyamkondan从食品科学和技术的角度来看，本次研讨会将为专注于食品-能源-水关系的研究合作奠定基础。研讨会定于2016年2月22日至24日在内布拉斯加州林肯大学举行。粮食、能源和水（FEW）系统高度相互关联，迫切需要加强对这些系统如何耦合的理解。食品和生物加工行业提供了一个重要的机会，以减少水和能源的使用在这个复杂的，耦合系统，因为解决方案可以针对相对较少的机构有很大的影响。本次研讨会的总体目标是通过汇集来自学术界，工业界和政府机构的研究人员，从业者和利益相关者的多元化群体来推动创新，以确定变革性食品技术领域的差距和研究需求，这将使所有这些利益相关者能够开发方法来提高食品安全，减少水和能源消耗，减少食品加工业产生的废物，提高FEW系统的可持续性。为了实现这一目标，研讨会的目标是：（1）使用过程设计和建模描述食品卫生，废物减少技术和变革技术的科学现状;（2）确定食品和生物加工行业必须超越的技术，社会经济和行为障碍;以及（3）为科学家、工程师和利益相关者提供一个流程和场所，以创造性和协作性地产生变革性技术的研究思路，从而增强行业和相关FEW系统的可持续性。

1619918 Subbiah, JeyamkondanTaking the food science and technology perspective, this workshop will lay groundwork for research collaborations focused on the Food-Energy-Water nexus. The workshop is scheduled for February 22-24, 2016 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Food, energy and water (FEW) systems are highly interconnected, and there is an urgent need to enhance understanding of how these systems are coupled. The food and bioprocessing industries offer an important opportunity to reduce water and energy use in this complex, coupled system, as solutions can target a relatively small number of establishments having a large impact. The overall goal of this workshop is to drive innovation by bringing together a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders from academia, industry, and government agencies to identify gaps and research needs in the area of transformative food technologies, which will enable all of these stakeholders to develop methods to improve food safety, reduce the amount of water and energy consumed, reduce the waste produced by the food processing industry, and enhance the sustainability of the FEW system. To bring this goal to fruition, the objectives of the workshop are to: (1) Describe the state-of-the-science in food sanitation, waste reduction technologies, and transformative technologies using process design and modeling; (2) Identify the technological, socioeconomic, and behavioral barriers that must be transcended in the food and bioprocessing industry; and (3) Provide a process and venue for scientists, engineers, and stakeholders to creatively and collaboratively generate research ideas for transformative technologies to enhance sustainability in the industry and associated FEW systems.