Workshop: Seeds, Soil, and Politics Workshop (September 9-14, 2016, University of California, Santa Cruz)

该奖项支持国际参与者前往参加将于2016年9月9日至14日在加州大学圣克鲁斯分校举行的研讨会。讲习班将汇集正在研究当代粮食生产发展影响的研究人员。在世界各地，知识产权法、基因工程、土壤健康、水资源短缺、气候破坏、治理和技术变革等众多因素正在改变粮食供应格局。虽然这些因素中的每一个都被单独地或与其他一两个因素相关联地进行了研究，但人们对它们如何结合在一起以及尽管社会、治理结构和环境存在多样性，但是否存在共同的模式知之甚少。本次研讨会旨在填补这一空白，特别关注这些变化如何渗透到地方层面。该研讨会之所以重要，是因为它为影响包括美国在内的世界各地粮食安全的问题提供了一个跨尺度的整体视角。研讨会围绕三个主题组织：(1)监管制度；(2)当地的耕作方式；(3)农民与业主参与机制。与会者将提前准备和分发文件。为期四天的研讨会将致力于累积讨论，确定共同的模式和过程，以及确定信息差距和未来的研究需求。这项研究的结果将引起政策制定者的兴趣，同时也会引起试图了解全球趋势如何影响地方层面粮食供应的研究人员的兴趣。该奖项还支持国际研究合作，从而为参与的研究生提供更好的学习体验。

This award supports international participant travel to a workshop to be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, September 9-14, 2016. The workshop will bring together researchers who are studying the effects of contemporary developments in food production. Throughout the world, a multitude of factors such as intellectual property laws, genetic engineering, soil health, water scarcity, climatic disruptions, governance and technological change are altering the food provisioning landscape. While each of these factors have been studied in isolation or in relation to one or two others, little is known about how they all come together and whether there are common patterns despite the diversity of societies, governance structures, and environments. This workshop aims to begin to fill that gap, with a particular focus on how the changes filter down to the local level. The workshop is important because it provides a holistic perspective across scales on issues that affect food security everywhere, including in the United States.The workshop is organized around three themes: (1) regulatory systems; (2) local farming practices; and (3) farmer and owner participatory mechanisms. Workshop participants will prepare and circulate papers in advance. The four days of the workshop will be devoted to cumulative discussion, identifying common patterns and processes, and identifying information gaps and future research needs. Findings from the research will be of interest to policy makers, as well as to researchers trying to understand how global trends affect food provisioning at local levels. The award also supports international research collaboration and therefore an improved learning experience for participating graduate students.