SRS RN: To be truly regenerative, we must be reparative: a BIPOC agenda for regional sustainable systems

许多黑人、土著和其他有色人种(BIPOC)社区将再生的土壤、水和能源系统视为摆脱奴隶制和殖民主义的代际治愈的基础。在这个镜头里，土地的开发是以人的剥削为基础的，土地的再生取决于人的再生。BIPOC农民和粮食系统参与者已经形成了区域、城市和区域可持续发展网络。这些网络旨在在经历了几代人的奴役、种族灭绝、流离失所和排斥之后，将农民与农村土地重新联系起来，并致力于通过这些努力为城市贫困人口提供健康、新鲜的食物。虽然这些网络利用基层办法在组织和机构建设方面取得了显著的成就，但它们没有得到资金和/或其他支持类型，从而推动其他政策网络进入更高的整合和组织水平。这项规划拨款的活动将提供这方面的支持，以确保这些网络获得用于食品、水和能源创新的区域土地，并使它们能够自由地展望25年后的再生目标。该研究团队将与东北有色土地信托基金(NEFOC)和黑人农民基金会(BFF)合作，与NEFOC服务区的利益相关者合作，共同设计和构建集体影响(CI)模式的网络和框架。方法包括在东北大西洋渔业委员会和生物多样性论坛完成的调查的基础上再接再厉，召集焦点小组，并在集体影响框架内进行访谈，以利用结构化的合作形式为网络制定共同议程。其目标是发展关于支持可持续区域系统的因素的新知识，了解BIPOC政策网络如何促进这些系统，并确定在这些系统中创造更多集体力量以实现长期可持续的关键资产和差距。该项目投资于BIPOC可持续发展政策网络，以推进修复性的社会生态框架，以推动BIPOC网络进入更高水平的一体化和组织化，提高其维护土地主权的能力，并支持可持续区域系统的长期战略规划。此外，这些BIPOC网络提出了新颖的综合愿景，融合了生态、文化、灵性、历史和地理。研究结果将提供机会，解决根深蒂固的种族不公正和创伤遗留问题，同时修复BIPOC与土地的关系，恢复区域生态系统。加强BIPOC可持续发展政策网络是建立健康社区的基础，同时改善保护区域生态系统的战略。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。

Many Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) communities identify regenerative soil, water, and energy systems as the basis for intergenerational healing from slavery and colonization. In this lens, the exploitation of land is based on the exploitation of people, and the regeneration of land depends on the regeneration of people. BIPOC farmers and food system actors have formed regional urban and regional sustainability networks. These networks aim to reconnect farmers with rural land after generations of slavery, genocide, displacement, and exclusion, and are committed to feeding poor urban populations with healthy, fresh food with these efforts. While these networks have achieved a remarkable level of organizing and institution-building using a grassroots approach, they have not received either funding and/or other support types that have propelled other policy networks into higher levels of integration and organization. The activities of this planning grant will provide this support to secure these networks access to regional land for food, water, and energy innovation and give them the freedom to vision regeneration goals 25+ years into the future.Partnering with the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust (NEFOC) and Black Farmer Fund (BFF), this research team will work collaboratively with stakeholders in the NEFOC service area to co-design and build a network and framework for a Collective Impact (CI) model. Methods include building on surveys completed by NEFOC and BFF, convening focus groups, and conducting interviews within the collective impact framework to create a common agenda for the networks using a structured form of collaboration. The goal is to develop new knowledge about the factors that support sustainable regional systems, understand the ways in which BIPOC policy networks foster those systems, and determine the key assets and gaps to creating more collective power in those systems for long-term sustainability. This project invests in BIPOC sustainability policy networks advancing a reparative socio-ecological framework to advance BIPOC networks into higher levels of integration and organization, increase their capacity for land sovereignty, and support long-term strategic planning for sustainable regional systems. In addition, these BIPOC networks pose novel, integrative visions, which incorporate ecology, culture, spirituality, history, and geography. Outcomes from the research will provide opportunities to address entrenched legacies of racial injustice and trauma, while repairing BIPOC relationships with the land and restoring regional ecosystems. Strengthening BIPOC sustainability policy networks is foundational to building healthy communities while improving strategies for protecting regional ecosystems.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.