Collaborative Research: RAPID: Compounding Human and Natural Disasters: Implication on agriculture sectors

受新冠肺炎灾难影响最大的关键行业之一是农业部门。新冠肺炎人类灾难进一步对减轻包括美国在内的世界不同地区持续发生的自然灾害(如干旱)构成重大挑战。新冠肺炎将对多个农业子行业产生重大影响，因为农产品价格将受到影响，供应链可能会放缓，农场劳动力将发生中断，农场破产的可能性将增加。农作物需求的减少和劳动力供应的减少可能会减少收入，增加成本。干旱条件将进一步加剧更广泛农业部门的困难，因为干旱导致可用水减少，成本继续上升。几十年来，农业系统应对自然灾害(例如干旱、炎热天气)的能力有所提高，但正在进行的新冠肺炎大流行对农业社区提出了新的意想不到的挑战。干旱加上新冠肺炎可能会给农业部门带来复杂的影响。干旱降低了作物产量，造成了经济损失，而新冠肺炎通过影响农产品价格、供应链、健康风险和农业劳动力的流失，进一步加剧了这一挑战。该项目将研究持续干旱和新冠肺炎的结合将如何影响对国家粮食安全发挥重要作用的农业部门。研究小组将调查复合干旱和COVID 19对县级农民社会经济指标的影响，以及可以实施哪些战略将影响降至最低。该项目将增进对人类灾害和自然灾害对农业部门综合影响的了解，并为研究美国不同地区两种不同类型的灾害的综合影响提供了一个极好的机会。研究结果将被用来制定战略，以提高对这种独特的极端复合的认识，使利益相关者能够在未来对此类事件采取预防措施。研究结果将与主要利益相关者(如农业部、农业推广专家)共享，旨在使美国和世界范围内受这场持续灾难影响最大的人受益，帮助制定在不久的将来可以采取的预防措施。该项目由化学、生物工程、环境和运输系统(CBET)部门和既定的刺激竞争研究计划(EPSCoR)联合资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

One of the key sectors being significantly affected by the COVID-19 disaster is the agriculture sector. The COVID-19 human disaster is further posing significant challenges to mitigating ongoing natural disasters (e.g., drought) in different parts of the world, including the USA. COVID-19 will have a significant impact on multiple agricultural sub-sectors as farm prices will be impacted, supply chains will likely slow down, farm workforce disruptions will occur, and the odds of farm bankruptcies will increase. The reduction of demand for crops and the reduction of supply of labor is likely to reduce revenue and increase costs. Drought conditions will further exacerbate the hardship of the broader agricultural sector as water availability declines due to drought and costs continue to rise.The resilience of agricultural systems in the face of natural hazards (e.g., drought, hot days) has improved over the decades but the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic presents a new and unexpected challenge to the farming community. The combination of drought and COVID-19 can lead to a compounding impact on farming sectors. Droughts reduce crop yield and create financial losses, and COVID-19 further compounds this challenge by impacting farm price, supply chains, health risk, and loss of farm work force. This project will study how the combination of ongoing drought and COVID-19 will affect the agricultural sectors that play an important role in the nation's food security. The research team will investigate the consequences of compounding drought and COVID 19 on farmers' socio-economic indicators at the county scale, and what strategies can be implemented to minimize the impacts. This project will advance knowledge of the combined influence of human hazard and natural hazard on agricultural sub-sectors and provides an excellent opportunity to study the compounding effect of two different types of hazards in different parts of the USA. Research results will be used to develop strategies for improving awareness about this unique extreme compounding, allowing stakeholders to take precautionary measures for such events in the future. The research findings will be shared with key stakeholders (e.g., Department of Agriculture, agriculture extension specialists) and is targeted to benefit those most affected by this ongoing disaster in the USA and worldwide, assisting in the development of precautionary measures that can be taken in the near future.This project is jointly funded by the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Division and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.