Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Guiding the pursuit for sustainability by co-developing a Sustainable Agriculture Matrix (SAM)

该奖项为参与由55个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛发起的全球变化研究项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个研究资助组织的联盟，致力于支持跨学科方法来应对全球环境变化的挑战和机遇。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。该奖项为美国研究人员在至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作提供支持。这些小组将建立跨学科网络，为可持续发展途径制定创新的解决办法，并设法评估经济、技术、机构与环境、气候、生物多样性和人类福祉之间的积极和消极相互联系，以了解通往可持续世界的潜在途径。该项目的重点是通过与利益攸关方合作，共同制定衡量农业可持续性的指标体系和相关产品，为可持续农业制定途径。该联盟将确定与农业相关的各种可持续发展目标（sdg）之间的相互联系，并确定促进可持续农业的战略，以帮助制定政策。为了最大限度地促进学科、部门和国家之间的互动与合作，该联盟将组织一系列网络和共同学习活动，如联盟范围内的会议、定期的经验分享和同行学习会议，以及实地访问。研究小组还将培养跨国伙伴关系，以调查农业可持续性的历史轨迹，并分析每个地区和全球的发展指标与可持续发展目标之间的权衡关系。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。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The teams will establish transdisciplinary networks to develop innovative solutions for sustainable development pathways and seek to assess the positive and negative inter-linkages between the economy, technology, institutions with the environment, climate, biodiversity, and human well-being to understand potential pathways to a sustainable world.The project focuses on formulating pathways for sustainable agriculture by engaging with stakeholders to co-develop an indicator system and associated products that will measure agriculture sustainability. The consortium will identify the inter-linkages among various sustainable development goals (SDGs) related to agriculture and identify strategies for advancing sustainable agriculture to help inform policy. To maximize the interactions and collaborations across the boundaries of disciplines, sectors, and nations, the consortium will organize a range of networking and co-learning activities, such as consortium-wide meetings, regular experience sharing and peer-learning sessions, and field visits. The research team will also cultivate cross-country partnerships to investigate the historical trajectories of agriculture sustainability and to analyze tradeoffs between their developed indicators and SDGs in each region and the globe.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.