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计划的研讨会。未来研究的目的是更好地了解危机环境中的人类环境决策。这些研讨会将集中在当地食品系统上。一些研究人员认为，小型的本地化系统效率低下且环境有害。其他人发现，当地的粮食系统值得注意，因为它们支持社会公平，公民身份和长期可持续性。该研讨会系列旨在将农民和社会科学家召集在一起，以模拟这些问题如何解决，因为农民应对以前的危机，以计划研究以预测和提高当地粮食系统对未来危机的响应能力。这项研究将通过重点关注美国南部阿巴拉契亚州和法国西南地区来采取比较方法。每个地区的农村景观都有重要的文化价值，居民表现出强大的地点，并且在这两个地区，当地的粮食系统最近都复活了。 第一个研讨会将于法国澳大利亚举行（2019年5月20日至24日）；第二次将于（2019年10月12日至16日）在北卡罗来纳州的布恩举行。研讨会议程将包括与这些地区的农民以及农民和科学家之间的会议进行访问，以模拟先前的行为并确定知识差距。未来的研究将通过对方法，经济和政策分析以及社会文化分析的生命周期分析来解决这些差距。研讨会的调查结果将在会议上介绍，并用作资助大规模研究的赠款提案的基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的审查标准的评估来获得支持的。