Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Co-Creating Sustainable Transformations of Food Supply Chains through Cooperative Business Models and Governance

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：通过合作商业模式和治理共同创造食品供应链的可持续转型

• 批准号: 2321087
• 负责人: Ashley Colby
• 金额: $ 33万
• 依托单位: GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321087&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; Co

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 develop and employ new transdisciplinary approaches to address sustainable consumption and production as a socio-technical system to help inform decision-making for sustainable, resilient, and just systems of consumption and production.The project focuses on transdisciplinary research approaches engaging local stakeholders on how to innovate, convert, and strengthen food supply chains in different socio-cultural-political contexts across 6 countries. Conventional, globalized food supply chains are vulnerable to many factors such as climate change, pandemics, political unrest, food insecurity, high food prices, injustices against workers, and dependence on trade partners violating human rights. Various efforts have been undertaken to transform food supply chains towards sustainability by reducing transport, paying fair prices, adding value in the region of origin, adopting worker safety standards, and increasing accountability along the supply chain from production to consumption. Cooperative business models, such as worker or consumer cooperatives, as well as cooperative governance such as food policy councils or community-supported agriculture adopt many of these sustainable practices. Yet, there is little empirical, comparative research on how to implement sustainable food supply chains through cooperative models. The project will explore entire supply chains, and the case studies will be used to focus on specific supply chain issues addressed, the phase of the supply chain open for the transformation, the range of food products, and the governance elements from the supporting entrepreneurial ecosystem. The case studies will employ a theoretical framework that links sustainability transformation, short supply chains, and alternative food networks, while using a research methodology that combines sustainability assessment, visioning, strategy building, real-world experimentation, and evaluation methods, in transdisciplinary collaboration with supply-chain and governance actors. Results from this project will provide guidance and inspiration to researchers and practitioners on how food supply chains can be successfully transformed towards sustainability.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.

该奖项通过贝尔蒙特论坛，为参与由55个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持对全球环境变化挑战和机遇采取跨学科办法。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这一办法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球意义的专题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国办法加以处理，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，使他们能够在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作。 这些团队将开发和采用新的跨学科方法，将可持续消费和生产作为一个社会技术系统来解决，以帮助为可持续、有弹性和公正的消费和生产系统的决策提供信息。该项目侧重于跨学科研究方法，让当地利益相关者参与如何在6个国家的不同社会文化政治背景下创新、转换和加强食品供应链。 传统的全球化粮食供应链容易受到许多因素的影响，例如气候变化、流行病、政治动荡、粮食不安全、高粮价、对工人的不公正以及对侵犯人权的贸易伙伴的依赖。为实现粮食供应链的可持续性，已作出各种努力，减少运输，支付公平价格，增加原产地的价值，采用工人安全标准，并在从生产到消费的供应链沿着加强问责制。工人或消费者合作社等合作社商业模式以及粮食政策委员会或社区支助农业等合作社治理都采用了许多可持续做法。然而，很少有经验，比较研究如何通过合作模式实施可持续的粮食供应链。 该项目将探索整个供应链，并将利用案例研究重点关注所解决的具体供应链问题，供应链开放转型的阶段，食品产品的范围以及支持创业生态系统的治理要素。案例研究将采用一个理论框架，将可持续性转型，短供应链和替代食品网络联系起来，同时使用一种研究方法，将可持续性评估，愿景，战略建设，现实世界的实验和评估方法结合起来，与供应链和治理行为体进行跨学科合作。该项目的成果将为研究人员和从业人员提供指导和灵感，帮助他们了解食品供应链如何成功地向可持续发展转变。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。