NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing climate resilient food technologies (HI, USAPI)

NSF 引擎开发奖：推进气候适应性食品技术（HI、USAPI）

• 批准号: 2305455
• 负责人: Erik Franklin
• 金额: $ 99.99万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2305455&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on catalyzing an ecosystem for translational research that increases sustainable food production and economic expansion in Hawaii's aquaculture, fisheries, and agriculture sectors. This Development Award integrates Indigenous knowledge systems and scientific technologies to generate food products and services to respond to the challenges of food insecurity among underserved communities, an over-reliance on food imports, and the burgeoning effects of climate change. The team's partners represent the strongest possible contributors in the region to achieve the proposed work - a diverse group of innovators and entrepreneurs, academic institutions, businesses, governments, and investment organizations that provide a significant influence within the multibillion-dollar regional food industry and support activities that contribute to national and global economic impacts. This Development Award will enable a regional effort in food system innovations that promotes a robust culture of innovation, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Novel approaches to food production from agriculture, fisheries, and aquaculture, including indigenously-managed land and aquatic resources, are supported to directly supply markets to address issues of equity and justice and provide working implementations of food system models for regional economic development and diversification. The region currently houses numerous talented, early-stage food system start-ups and research activities, which are anticipated to expand in the scope of innovation, the scale of activity, and the number of businesses through the Development Award. To fuel this expansion, building a workforce for resilient food systems is critical for sustained growth. The team will engage with a collective of 18 Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) that serve Native Hawaiians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders to identify existing programs, fill current gaps in the education landscape, train a skilled labor force, and launch future waves of entrepreneurs for long-term growth in food production. The Development Award will enable the team to prepare for an NSF Engine by supporting a two-year process to assess, plan, and coordinate activities among partners that allows a comprehensive evaluation of resources, opportunities, and challenges to inform the goals, structure, and operations.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.

该区域创新引擎发展奖的重点是催化转化研究的生态系统，以增加夏威夷水产养殖，渔业和农业部门的可持续粮食生产和经济扩张。该发展奖将土著知识体系和科学技术相结合，以产生粮食产品和服务，以应对服务不足社区的粮食不安全，过度依赖粮食进口以及气候变化的影响。该团队的合作伙伴代表了该地区最强大的贡献者，以实现拟议的工作-一个由创新者和企业家，学术机构，企业，政府和投资组织组成的多元化群体，在数十亿美元的区域食品行业中发挥着重要影响力，并支持有助于国家和全球经济影响的活动。 该发展奖将促进粮食系统创新的区域努力，促进创新，多样性，公平，包容和可及性的强大文化。农业、渔业和水产养殖业，包括土著管理的土地和水产资源的粮食生产的新方法得到支持，以直接供应市场，解决公平和正义问题，并为区域经济发展和多样化提供粮食系统模式的有效实施。该地区目前拥有众多有才华的早期食品系统初创企业和研究活动，预计通过发展奖，这些企业将在创新范围，活动规模和企业数量方面扩大。为了推动这一扩张，建立一支适应性强的粮食系统的劳动力队伍对于持续增长至关重要。该团队将与18个少数民族服务机构（MSI）合作，为夏威夷原住民，亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民提供服务，以确定现有的计划，填补目前教育领域的空白，培训熟练的劳动力，并推出未来的企业家浪潮，以实现粮食生产的长期增长。开发奖将使该团队能够通过支持为期两年的评估，计划和协调合作伙伴之间的活动来为NSF引擎做准备，这些活动允许对资源，机遇和挑战进行全面评估，以告知目标，结构，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进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。