WORKSHOP: Local and Alternative Food Systems in Stressed Environments: France, May 2019 & North Carolina, October 2019

研讨会：压力环境中的本地和替代食品系统：法国，2019 年 5 月

• 批准号: 1913260
• 负责人: Meredith Welch-Devine
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1913260&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Local; Alternative; Food; Systems

This award supports the participation of U.S. scientists, students, and farmers in two research-planning workshops. The goal of the future research will be to better understand human environmental decision-making in crises contexts. The workshops will focus on local food systems. Some researchers have argued that small, localized systems are inefficient and environmentally harmful. Others have found that local food systems are noteworthy for their support of social equity, citizenship, and long-term sustainability. This workshop series is designed to bring farmers and social scientists together to model how these issues have played out as farmers responded to previous crises in order to plan research to predict and improve responsiveness of local food systems to future crises. The research will take a comparative approach by focusing on southern Appalachia, in the U.S., and the southwestern region of France. Rural landscapes in each region have important cultural value, residents exhibit strong place-attachment, and in both areas, local food systems have seen a recent resurgence. The first workshop will take place (May 20-24, 2019) in Aussurucq, France; the second will take place (October 12-16,2019) in Boone, North Carolina. The workshop agendas will include site visits with farmers in these regions as well as meetings between farmers and scientists to model previous behaviors and identify knowledge gaps. The future research will address these gaps through life cycle analyses of approaches, economic and policy analyses, and socio-cultural analyses. Findings from the workshop will be presented in conferences and used as the basis for a grant proposal to fund the larger-scale study.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.

该奖项支持美国科学家，学生和农民参加两个研究规划研讨会。未来研究的目标将是更好地理解危机背景下人类的环境决策。这些讲习班将侧重于地方粮食系统。一些研究人员认为，小型、局部化的系统效率低下，对环境有害。另一些人发现，地方粮食系统在支持社会公平、公民身份和长期可持续性方面值得注意。该系列研讨会旨在将农民和社会科学家聚集在一起，模拟这些问题如何在农民应对以前的危机时发挥作用，以便规划研究，预测和改善当地粮食系统对未来危机的反应。这项研究将采取比较的方法，重点放在美国的阿巴拉契亚南部，以及法国西南部地区。每个地区的农村景观都具有重要的文化价值，居民表现出强烈的地方依恋，在这两个地区，当地的食物系统最近都出现了复苏。 第一次研讨会将于2019年5月20日至24日在法国奥苏鲁克举行;第二次研讨会将于2019年10月12日至16日在北卡罗来纳州布恩举行。研讨会的议程将包括对这些地区的农民进行实地考察，以及农民和科学家之间的会议，以模拟以前的行为并确定知识差距。未来的研究将通过对各种方法的生命周期分析、经济和政策分析以及社会文化分析来解决这些差距。研讨会的结果将在会议上发表，并作为资助更大规模研究的赠款提案的基础。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。