Challenge Based Molecular Tracking (MolTrack)

需要立即采取农业干预措施，以应对净零、饮食和生物多样性方面的挑战，为更强大、更有韧性的经济、更健康、更公平的社会创造机会，并实现我们的许多可持续发展目标。我们目前的粮食生产系统导致了生物、农业生物和饮食多样性的减少（以及其他环境问题），最终导致了饮食分子的失衡，这导致了世界上大量人口遭受营养不良和非传染性疾病的折磨，并付出了巨大的经济代价。作物选择、农艺实践、土地管理、粮食生产和加工是关键变量，因为我们需要充分利用土地，同时减少农业排放，生产高质量的营养食品，保护环境，同时考虑到循环性。然而，在实践中，变革的影响，特别是采用颠覆性技术的影响，很难在整个食品供应链中衡量，对关键挑战的影响也难以评估。我们建议，可以通过对这些关键营养物质和其他与食物相关的分子进行分子跟踪来监测土壤、作物、牲畜和人类健康和疾病，从而实现优化多样性的实践。这种全新的方法将开发一个研究基础和数据集作为概念验证，其目标是在国内和全球的许多环境中广泛应用。预期的结果是一个“概念验证”模型的成功交付，该模型能够在分子多样性和流动方面预测粮食供应系统的破坏性变化的影响。我们将确定有价值的数据集、必要的输入参数、重要的颠覆性技术、差距和障碍，并提供一个能够在国家和全球层面应用该模型的网络，以解决广泛的农业粮食系统问题。这个项目可以为农民和土地所有者带来好处，他们希望多样化实践，有效地实现饮食、气候和生物多样性目标，食品和饮料企业希望利用新的机会，提供适合目的的食品供应系统，第三部门组织对满足饮食、气候和生物多样性目标感兴趣，英国和全球研究界通过提高英国的研究能力，以及促进国际合作。政策团队通过主动提供有价值的技术信息，通过实现我们的饮食、气候和生物多样性目标，支持政策目标和更广泛的社会。

Immediate agricultural interventions are required to address net zero, dietary and biodiversity challenges to deliver opportunities for a stronger and resilient economy, a healthier fairer society and to meet many of our sustainable development goals. Our current food production systems have resulted in a reduction in bio-, agribio- and dietary diversity (as well as other environmental issues), ultimately leading to imbalances in dietary molecules, which has contributed to substantial amounts of the world's population suffering from both malnutrition and non-communicable disorders at enormous economic cost. Crop selection, agronomic practice, land management, food production and processing are key variables, as we need to make the best use of our land, while reducing emissions from agriculture, producing high quality nutritious food, protecting the environment, while taking into account circularity. In practice, however, the effect of change, particularly employing disruptive technologies is difficult to measure across the food supply chain and the impact on the key challenges difficult to assess. We propose that soil, crop, livestock and human health and disease can be monitored by molecular tracking of these key nutrients and other food-related molecules, allowing practices that optimise diversity. This completely novel approach will develop a research base and dataset as proof-of-concept, which aims to have wide application across a number of settings both nationally and globally. The anticipated outcome is the successful delivery of a 'proof-of-concept' model capable of predicting the effect of disruptive changes to the food supply system in terms of molecular diversity and flow. We will identify valuable datasets, necessary input parameters, important disruptive technologies, gaps and barriers and deliver a network capable of applying this model on both a national and global level to address a wide range of agri-food systems. This project could deliver benefits to farmers and landowners looking to diversify practice to effectively deliver on dietary, climate and biodiversity targets, food and drink businesses looking to capitalise on novel opportunities and deliver a fit-for-purpose food supply system, third sector organisations with interests in meeting dietary, climate and biodiversity targets, the UK and global research community by increasing UK research capability, as well as foster international collaboration, policy teams by proactively informing on valuable technologies to support policy targets and wider society by delivering on our dietary, climate and biodiversity targets.