Heritage, resilience and biosecurity: challenges and opportunities in the revival of historic farming and food production

遗产、复原力和生物安全：历史悠久的农业和粮食生产复兴的挑战和机遇

• 批准号: 1100642
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Aberystwyth University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1100642
• 关键词: Heritage; resilience; biosecurity; challenges; opportunities

The aim of this research project is to identify and explore the barriers and opportunities of a pioneering, experimental renaissance in historical forms of agricultural production and food processing. Contemporary food production is dominated by large scale, standardised practices which value yield, efficiency and cost saving over diversity, innovation and individual autonomy. Industrialised, mass food production is characterised by homogeneity, from monoculture crops and highly mechanised farming methods to centralised food processing and distribution systems. This set up has low resilience and limited flexibility making it highly susceptible to risk, with the potential for a single problem to cause a cascade of failures throughout the system. The incentive to explore alternative food pathways is driven by a wide range of factors, from convictions that the current system is unsustainable in both environmental and economic terms to cultural and societal beliefs that we should be more connected to where our food comes from. The aim of this project is to explore how heritage is being utilised by pioneering groups to address food system resilience and biosecurity, and to examine the ways in which people are looking to the past in order to build sustainable futures. The project will explore the activities of pioneering groups in heritage revival and the opportunities these initiatives represent in terms of resilience, alternative food production and biosecurity. It will also identify the challenges, specifically policy constraints, met by these groups and how they are negotiating these in order to achieve their aims within an infrastructure which is only slowly acknowledging that such small enterprises and experimental endeavours need support.

该研究项目的目的是确定和探索农业生产和食品加工历史形式的开拓性，实验性复兴的障碍和机会。现代食品生产主要是大规模的标准化实践，重视产量，效率和成本节约，而不是多样性，创新和个人自主性。工业化大规模粮食生产的特点是同质性，从单一作物和高度机械化的耕作方法到集中的食品加工和分配系统。这种设置具有低弹性和有限的灵活性，使其非常容易受到风险的影响，有可能出现一个单一的问题，导致整个系统的故障级联。 探索替代食物途径的动机是由各种因素驱动的，从认为当前系统在环境和经济方面都是不可持续的信念，到我们应该与食物来源更多联系的文化和社会信念。该项目的目的是探索先驱团体如何利用遗产来解决粮食系统的复原力和生物安全问题，并研究人们回顾过去以建立可持续未来的方式。该项目将探讨先驱团体在遗产复兴方面的活动，以及这些举措在复原力、替代食品生产和生物安全方面所代表的机会。它还将确定这些团体遇到的挑战，特别是政策限制，以及它们如何就这些挑战进行谈判，以便在一个只是慢慢承认这种小企业和实验性努力需要支持的基础设施内实现其目标。