STREAM 2: The LINCAM AgTech Cluster

流 2：LINCAM 农业科技集群

• 批准号: EP/Y023854/1
• 负责人: Simon Pearson
• 金额: $ 668.29万
• 依托单位: University of Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY023854%2F1
• 关键词: STREAM; LINCAM; AgTech; Cluster

The unavoidable agri-food system needs to provide affordable and healthy food for all. However, it is now widely accepted that food production comes with an unacceptable environmental and social costs. It accounts for 24% of all UK GHG emissions, led to significant biodiversity losses and driven challenging social issues not least from seasonal worker influxes to rural communities. In addition, farmers are under relentless cost pressure from dominant supply chain actors, eroding supply chain equity and local economies. These challenges are acute, not least across Greater Lincolnshire and north Cambridgeshire (LINCAM region), the UK's major production centre for crop-based agriculture and associated supply chain. Whilst there is no simple panacea for these challenges, agricultural technologies (AgTech) that concurrently drive economic and environmental / social productivity have a critical role. The LINCAM supply chain's significance and sheer scale has established a nationally renowned AgTech cluster, not least from the Universities of Lincoln and Cambridge. Both HEI's have specialised in interdisciplinary agri-food innovation, focussing on digital technologies including robotics and AI to drive productivity. Their work exploited a close working relationship with wider civic society and has been co-created across industry. For this established cluster, the LINCAM proposition enables the next step change. We will use AgTech to help address some of the most daunting challenges facing the LINCAM region and global agricultural productivity.We will deliver a step change by;1. Broadening participation by provisioning LINCAM cluster access to all UK HEI's who wish to onward develop impacts from their AgTech innovations. Activities will include extensive cocreation with leading business and society partners plus direct training and funding for impact delivery. To embed impact delivery behaviours, all awards will be milestoned (go/no go) and accompanied by active pre, through and post award mentoring. 2. Extensive KE with leading businesses and civic society (GLLEP, CPCA, Lincolnshire County Council and West Lindsey District Council) to understand and mitigate barriers to adoption. Activities will include direct support with civic actors to develop local industrial strategies, lock down foreign direct investment, local planning, infrastructure and community development. The LINCAM project enables the cluster to consolidate and deliver nascent development objectives. This includes realisation of a nationally significant Agricultural Growth Zone north of Lincoln; our ambition is to transform the University's Riseholme Campus to a global innovation centre for AgTech.3. Securing a legacy by embedding cocreation and human skills for AgTech innovation across the region and UK HEI's. We target the LINCAM region to become an AgTech gateway for the world, enabling the development of technologies in a place with industrial scale, export opportunities for AgTech companies and inward investment opportunities within both the AgTech and primary production sectors.Our key regional partners are civic society and an industry sector that supports 88,000 jobs, generates a GVA of £3.8bn and farms >50% of the UK's grade 1 land. However, despite this scale, the opportunity for Place based impact is significant. Social deprivation and attainment across the region are pressing concerns, many citizens are underserved. LINCAM offers an opportunity to secure sustainable growth, bringing high value and skilled jobs to the region, whilst mitigating the serious environmental impacts of the food production system.

不可避免的农业食品系统需要为所有人提供负担得起的健康食品。然而，现在人们普遍认为粮食生产会带来不可接受的环境和社会成本。它占英国温室气体排放总量的 24%，导致生物多样性严重丧失，并引发了具有挑战性的社会问题，尤其是季节性工人涌入农村社区。此外，农民还面临着来自供应链主导者的持续成本压力，侵蚀了供应链公平和当地经济。这些挑战非常严峻，尤其是在大林肯郡和北剑桥郡（LINCAM 地区），这是英国农作物农业和相关供应链的主要生产中心。虽然没有简单的灵丹妙药可以应对这些挑战，但同时推动经济和环境/社会生产力的农业技术（AgTech）发挥着关键作用。 LINCAM 供应链的重要性和庞大规模已经建立了全国知名的农业科技集群，尤其是来自林肯大学和剑桥大学。两家高等教育机构都专注于跨学科农业食品创新，专注于包括机器人和人工智能在内的数字技术，以提高生产力。他们的工作利用了与更广泛的公民社会的密切工作关系，并且是跨行业共同创造的。对于这个已建立的集群，LINCAM 主张可以实现下一步的改变。我们将利用农业科技帮助解决 LINCAM 地区和全球农业生产力面临的一些最艰巨的挑战。我们将通过以下方式实现逐步变革：1。通过向所有希望进一步发挥农业科技创新影响力的英国高等教育机构提供 LINCAM 集群访问权限，扩大参与范围。活动将包括与领先的商业和社会合作伙伴进行广泛的共同创造，以及直接培训和资助以产生影响。为了嵌入影响力交付行为，所有奖项都将具有里程碑意义（通过/不通过），并伴有积极的获奖前、获奖过程和获奖后指导。 2. 与领先企业和公民社会（GLLEP、CPCA、林肯郡议会和西林赛区议会）进行广泛的知识交流，以了解并减少采用障碍。活动将包括直接支持民间行为者制定当地产业战略、锁定外国直接投资、当地规划、基础设施和社区发展。 LINCAM 项目使集群能够巩固并实现新的发展目标。这包括在林肯以北建立一个全国重要的农业增长区；我们的目标是将大学的 Riseholme 校园改造成全球农业科技创新中心。3。通过在整个地区和英国高等教育机构中嵌入共同创造和人类技能来促进农业科技创新，从而确保遗产。我们的目标是使 LINCAM 地区成为面向世界的农业科技门户，促进在具有工业规模的地方进行技术开发，为农业科技公司提供出口机会，并为农业科技和初级生产部门提供内来投资机会。我们的主要区域合作伙伴是公民社会和工业部门，该部门提供了 88,000 个就业岗位，创造了 38 亿英镑的总增值，并拥有超过 50% 的英国一级土地。然而，尽管规模如此之大，但基于地点的影响力的机会还是很大的。该地区的社会贫困和社会进步是紧迫的问题，许多公民得不到充分的服务。 LINCAM 提供了确保可持续增长的机会，为该地区带来高价值和技术性就业机会，同时减轻食品生产系统对环境的严重影响。