AgriFood4NetZero: Plausible Pathways, Practical and Open Science for Net Zero Agrifood

农业食品系统产生了英国23%的排放量，必须在英国到2050年向净零排放过渡的过程中发挥关键作用，并通过在创新方面的领先地位来支持全球变化。我们的Network+将建立在研究和利益相关者社区之间现有的和新的合作伙伴关系上，以制定共同的议程、健全的研究计划，并规划未来的研究和创新。该网络将设计和提供高回报的可行性项目，以帮助催化快速的系统转型，以确保农业食品系统是可持续的，并支持英国的净零目标，同时增强生物多样性，维护生态系统服务，促进生计和支持健康消费，并通过贸易将对海外环境的影响降至最低。净零挑战的激进规模要求在研究和创新方面采取同样大胆和雄心勃勃的方法，尤其是因为农业-粮食和土地系统作为碳汇的独特潜力。我们的标题是《可行的途径，实用和开放的科学》，承认农业食品系统是一个有争议的领域，在这个领域中有一系列可行的途径。成功需要在自然科学和社会科学之间建立新的关系，其中包括行业、政府和公民在内的利益攸关方，积极利用分散的专业知识来支持部门转型。我们将利用我们从基础研究到应用、政策和参与的广泛专业知识，共同制定一套可信、证据充分和实用的路线，以应对未来市场、政策和社会驱动因素的变化，使农业食品系统向净零和可持续发展方向发展。通过整合我们现有的许多利益攸关方联系，我们将审查和评估当前的选择，并利用网络资金，通过务虚会、严峻考验、研讨会、在线数字联网和范围界定研究，促进新的伙伴关系，以制定转型的系统方法，重新制定研究议程，并开展新的研究项目。我们将共同设计富有成效和创造性的空间，使研究界能够通过以下框架与广泛的利益相关者和思想领袖接触：7名管理网络但自己没有资格获得资助的联合机构；9名一年冠军(1年后有新任命)，动态地在研究界之间建立新的联系；11名顾问委员会成员，负责挑战一切照旧的思维；以及与其他利益相关者的定期联系。

The agri-food system, producing 23% of UK emissions, must play a key role in the UK's transition to net zero by 2050, and through leadership in innovation can support change globally. Our Network+ will build on existing and new partnerships across research and stakeholder communities to develop a shared agenda, robust research plans, and scope out future research and innovation. The Network will design and deliver high-reward feasibility projects to help catalyse rapid system transformation to ensure the agri-food system is sustainable and supports the UK's net zero goal, while enhancing biodiversity, maintaining ecosystem services, fostering livelihoods and supporting healthy consumption, and minimising the offshoring of environmental impacts overseas through trade. The radical scale of the net zero challenge requires an equally bold and ambitious approach to research and innovation, not least because of the agri-food and land system's unique potential as a carbon sink. Our title, Plausible Pathways, Practical and Open Science, recognises the agri-food system as a contested area in which a range of pathways are plausible. Success requires that new relationships between natural and social science, stakeholders including industry, government and citizens, be forged in which distributed expertise is actively harnessed to support sectoral transformation.We will use our breadth of expertise from basic research to application, policy and engagement to co-produce a trusted, well-evidenced, and practical set of routes, robust to changing future market, policy and social drivers, to evolve the agri-food system towards net zero and sustainability. Marshalling our many existing stakeholder links, we will review and evaluate current options and use Network funding to catalyse new partnerships through retreats, crucibles, workshops, online digital networking and scoping studies to develop system approaches to transformation, reframe the research agenda and undertake novel research projects. We will co-design productive and creative spaces that enable the research community to engage with a wide range of stakeholders and thought leaders through the following framework: 7 Co-Is who govern the Network but are not themselves eligible for funding; 9 Year-1 Champions (with new appointments after Year 1) dynamically forging new connections across research communities; 11 Advisory Board members tasked with challenging business-as-usual thinking; and regular liaison with other stakeholders.