Conference proposal: 2018 Joint Conference of the Society for Economic Botany and Society of Ethnobiology.

会议提案：2018年经济植物学会和民族生物学学会联席会议。

• 批准号: 1822297
• 负责人: Eve Emshwiller
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-03-01 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1822297&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; proposal; 2018; Joint; Society

This award provides partial support for a combined annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany and the Society of Ethnobiology, held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Society for Economic Botany fosters and encourages scientific research, education, and related activities on the past, present, and future uses of plants, and the relationship between plants and people. The Society of Ethnobiology promotes the understanding of past and present relationships between humans and their biological worlds. The theme of the 2018 conference will be Food Security, Sovereignty, & Traditional Knowledge. Bringing these two groups together around this theme will permit the exchange of information and opportunities for resolution of differences that may exist between Western scientific and indigenous knowledge perspectives and create new interdisciplinary collaborations for future research. This effort is important because having access to indigenous knowledge is critical for ensuring the development of future sustainable foods, pharmaceuticals, and other resources that will benefit all Americans. To ensure future food and plant security, researchers from universities, governmental, and non-governmental organizations are working to conserve seeds of crops in germplasm banks. At the same time, indigenous nations are working to protect their food, water, and seeds. Inadequate communication between these two groups risks creating unnecessary barriers and the loss of important information. The conference will provide the opportunity for scholars, practitioners, and advocates to share their understandings of issues that are critical to the wellbeing and survival of people around the world. Conference outcomes will also further social science theories of how different cognitive understanding of the natural world lead to critical differences in human behavior in relation to nature. Funds will support the participation of invited speakers at the plenary symposium, professional development of students through travel scholarships and a mentoring lunch, and broadened participation of underrepresented groups in social and biological sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项为在麦迪逊的威斯康星州大学举行的经济植物学学会和民族生物学学会联合年会提供部分支持。经济植物学会促进和鼓励科学研究，教育和有关植物过去，现在和未来用途的相关活动，以及植物和人之间的关系。人类生物学学会促进对人类与其生物世界之间过去和现在关系的理解。2018年会议的主题是粮食安全、主权和传统知识。围绕这一主题将这两个群体聚集在一起，将允许交流信息和解决西方科学和土著知识观点之间可能存在的差异的机会，并为未来的研究创造新的跨学科合作。这一努力很重要，因为获得土著知识对于确保未来可持续食品、药品和其他资源的发展至关重要，这些资源将造福于所有美国人。 为了确保未来的粮食和植物安全，来自大学、政府和非政府组织的研究人员正在努力将作物种子保存在种质库中。与此同时，土著民族正在努力保护他们的食物、水和种子。这两个群体之间的沟通不足可能会造成不必要的障碍，并丢失重要信息。会议将为学者，从业者和倡导者提供机会，分享他们对世界各地人民福祉和生存至关重要的问题的理解。会议成果还将进一步推动社会科学理论，探讨对自然世界的不同认知理解如何导致人类行为与自然的关键差异。基金将支持受邀演讲者参加全体研讨会，通过旅行奖学金和指导午餐促进学生的专业发展，并扩大社会和生物科学中代表性不足的群体的参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。