International: Integrating globally-recognised sustainability metrics for tropical perennial crops in a one-stop shop Cool Farm Tool

国际：将全球认可的热带多年生作物可持续性指标整合到一站式商店 Cool Farm Tool

• 批准号: NE/S013962/1
• 负责人: Jonathan Hillier
• 金额: $ 15.96万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FS013962%2F1
• 关键词: International; Integrating; globally; recognised; sustainability

We will develop a fully integrated environmental decision support tool for tropical perennial crops and deliver a full technical specification for inclusion into the online, and freely available Cool Farm Tool. The Cool Farm Tool is owned by the Cool Farm Alliance (CFA) who will partner on this project. It is a business-led initiative to assess and improve the sustainability of agriculture-based supply chains. It is funded via a membership model, with membership consisting of over 50 companies including for example major multinationals such as Unilever, PepsiCo, Heineken, Danone, Nestle, Marks and Spencer, and Tesco. Members pay to maintain the tool and deploy at scale in their supply chains but it is a core principle of the Alliance that the tool is and will always be free-to-use for farmers. The CFT itself is a science-based decision support tool designed for use by farmers at farm scale. It has benefitted from significant NERC Discovery and Innovation funding in the past and as a result includes a growing suite of metrics for crop and livestock systems in an expanding set of geographic locations (over 100 countries). Several case studies have shown the impact that has been derived using the tool, for example PepsiCo's "50-in-5" (http://pepsico.co.uk/live/story/celebrating-sustainable-farming) and egg production in North America resulting in a 25% reduction in the carbon footprint from primary production (Vetter et al 2018). Tropical perennial crops are of huge importance to global food supply chains and typically have high dependence on smallholder farmers in DAC countries where decision-support has been hindered less scientific evidence and the focus of researchers in temperate regions. This project build on numerous previous NERC and Wellcome Trust outputs and exploits established successful relationships between the project partners to ensure delivery. We will develop modules based around the existing CFT methods to allow a one-stop shop assessment tool for carbon and water footprinting and biodiversity impacts of farm practice in tropical perennials. Through partnership with the Cool Farm Alliance and the £5.4M Wellcome Trust funded SHEFS project we will ensure delivery of a tool which has practical value to farmers and supply chains. This business-led, science-based, and farmer-focused project will thereby provide robust metrics which will allow farmers to engage and demonstrate their positive actions for sustainability into international supply chains, and the businesses to identify good practices to embed in their sustainable sourcing strategies. The possibility to combine, in a single decision support tool, the multiple impacts of farm practices is attractive for many reasons, not least being that it will reduce the current burden on farmers to conduct multiple assessments of dubious value on multiple impacts for multiple buyers.

我们将为热带多年生作物开发一个完全集成的环境决策支持工具，并提供一个完整的技术规范，以纳入在线和免费提供的Cool Farm Tool。酷农场工具由酷农场联盟（CFA）拥有，CFA将成为该项目的合作伙伴。这是一项由企业主导的举措，旨在评估和改善以农业为基础的供应链的可持续性。它通过会员制模式提供资金，会员包括50多家公司，包括联合利华、百事可乐、喜力、达能、雀巢、玛莎百货和特易购等主要跨国公司。成员支付维护该工具并在其供应链中大规模部署的费用，但联盟的核心原则是，该工具现在和将来都将免费供农民使用。CFT本身是一种基于科学的决策支持工具，旨在供农民在农场规模上使用。它在过去受益于大量的NERC发现和创新资金，因此在不断扩大的地理位置（100多个国家）中包括越来越多的作物和畜牧系统指标。一些案例研究显示了使用该工具产生的影响，例如百事公司的“50合5”（http：//pepsico.co.uk/live/story/celebrating-sustainable-farming）和北美的鸡蛋生产，导致初级生产的碳足迹减少了25%（Vetter等人，2018年）。热带多年生作物对全球粮食供应链非常重要，通常高度依赖发援会国家的小农，这些国家的决策支持受到阻碍，科学证据较少，研究人员关注温带地区。该项目建立在NERC和Wellcome Trust以前的许多成果基础上，并利用项目合作伙伴之间建立的成功关系来确保交付。我们将围绕现有的CFT方法开发模块，以便为热带多年生植物的碳和水足迹以及农业实践对生物多样性的影响提供一站式评估工具。通过与酷农场联盟和540万英镑的惠康信托基金资助的SHEFS项目的合作，我们将确保提供一种对农民和供应链具有实用价值的工具。这一以企业为主导、以科学为基础、以农民为重点的项目将提供强有力的衡量标准，使农民能够参与并展示他们在国际供应链中的可持续性积极行动，并使企业能够确定嵌入其可持续采购战略的良好做法。在一个单一的决策支持工具中，联合收割机可以将农业实践的多种影响结合起来，这一点很有吸引力，原因有很多，尤其是它将减轻农民目前对多个购买者的多种影响进行价值可疑的多重评估的负担。