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

许多黑人、原住民和其他有色人种（BIPOC）社区认为，再生土壤、水和能源系统是奴隶制和殖民代际愈合的基础。从这个角度来看，土地的开发是以人的开发为基础的，土地的更新依赖于人的更新。BIPOC的农民和粮食系统行动者形成了区域城市和区域可持续性网络。这些网络旨在使农民在经历了几代人的奴役、种族灭绝、流离失所和排斥之后重新与农村土地联系起来，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体制建设方面取得了显著成就，但它们没有得到供资和（或）其他类型的支助，而这些支助推动了其他政策网络进入更高的一体化和组织水平。这项规划拨款的活动将为这些网络提供支持，以确保这些网络能够获得区域土地，用于食物、水和能源创新，并使他们能够自由地展望未来25年以上的再生目标。该研究小组将与东北有色农民土地信托基金（NEFOC）和黑人农民基金（BFF）合作，与NEFOC服务领域的利益相关者合作，共同设计和建立一个网络和框架，以实现集体影响（CI）模型。方法包括以NEFOC和BFF完成的调查为基础，召集焦点小组，并在集体影响框架内进行访谈，利用结构化的合作形式为网络制定共同议程。目标是发展有关支持可持续区域系统的因素的新知识，了解BIPOC政策网络促进这些系统的方式，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性的关键资产和差距。该项目投资于BIPOC可持续性政策网络，推进修复性社会生态框架，将BIPOC网络推进到更高水平的整合和组织，提高其土地主权能力，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、综合的愿景，其中包括生态、文化、灵性、历史和地理。研究结果将为解决根深蒂固的种族不公正和创伤遗留问题提供机会，同时修复BIPOC与土地的关系并恢复区域生态系统。加强BIPOC可持续性政策网络是建设健康社区的基础，同时改善保护区域生态系统的战略。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.