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

受COVID-19灾难严重影响的关键行业之一是农业。COVID-19人类灾难进一步对减轻持续的自然灾害（例如，干旱）在世界各地，包括美国。COVID-19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，农场劳动力将出现中断，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。由于干旱导致供水量下降且成本持续上升，干旱状况将进一步加剧更广泛农业部门的困难。农业系统面对自然灾害的复原力（例如，干旱、炎热天气）在过去几十年中有所改善，但持续的COVID-19大流行给农业社区带来了新的和意想不到的挑战。干旱和COVID-19的结合可能会对农业部门产生复合影响。干旱导致农作物减产并造成经济损失，而COVID-19通过影响农产品价格、供应链、健康风险和农业劳动力流失，进一步加剧了这一挑战。该项目将研究持续干旱和COVID-19的结合将如何影响在国家粮食安全中发挥重要作用的农业部门。研究团队将调查干旱和COVID 19对县级农民社会经济指标的影响，以及可以实施哪些策略来最大限度地减少影响。该项目将增进对人类危害和自然危害对农业分部门的综合影响的了解，并为研究美国不同地区两种不同类型危害的复合效应提供了一个极好的机会。研究结果将用于制定战略，以提高对这种独特的极端化合物的认识，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攸关方（例如，农业部，农业推广专家），旨在使美国和世界各地受这场持续灾害影响最严重的人受益，协助制定可在不久的将来采取的预防措施。该项目由化学，生物工程，环境和运输系统（CBET）部门和既定计划，以刺激竞争力的研究（EPSCoR）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，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.