Conference proposal: 2018 Joint Conference of the Society for Economic Botany and Society of Ethnobiology.

该奖项为经济植物学学会和民族生物学学会在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校举行的联合年会提供了部分支持。经济植物学学会促进和鼓励关于植物的过去、现在和未来的用途以及植物与人之间的关系的科学研究、教育和相关活动。民族生物学学会促进对人类与其生物界之间过去和现在的关系的理解。2018年会议的主题是粮食安全、主权和传统知识。将这两个小组围绕这一主题聚集在一起，将允许交流信息和机会，以解决西方科学和本土知识观点之间可能存在的差异，并为未来的研究创造新的跨学科合作。这一努力很重要，因为获得土著知识对于确保未来可持续发展的食品、药品和其他资源的开发至关重要，这些资源将使所有美国人受益。为了确保未来的粮食和植物安全，来自大学、政府和非政府组织的研究人员正在努力保存种质库中的作物种子。与此同时，土著民族正在努力保护他们的食物、水和种子。这两个群体之间的沟通不充分有可能造成不必要的障碍和重要信息的丢失。会议将为学者、实践者和倡导者提供机会，分享他们对对世界各地人民的福祉和生存至关重要的问题的理解。会议成果还将进一步深化社会科学理论，即对自然世界的不同认知理解如何导致人类与自然行为的关键差异。基金将支持受邀演讲者参加全体研讨会，通过旅行奖学金和辅导午餐支持学生的专业发展，并扩大未被充分代表的群体对社会和生物科学的参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides partial support for a combined annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany and the Society of Ethnobiology, held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Society for Economic Botany fosters and encourages scientific research, education, and related activities on the past, present, and future uses of plants, and the relationship between plants and people. The Society of Ethnobiology promotes the understanding of past and present relationships between humans and their biological worlds. The theme of the 2018 conference will be Food Security, Sovereignty, & Traditional Knowledge. Bringing these two groups together around this theme will permit the exchange of information and opportunities for resolution of differences that may exist between Western scientific and indigenous knowledge perspectives and create new interdisciplinary collaborations for future research. This effort is important because having access to indigenous knowledge is critical for ensuring the development of future sustainable foods, pharmaceuticals, and other resources that will benefit all Americans. To ensure future food and plant security, researchers from universities, governmental, and non-governmental organizations are working to conserve seeds of crops in germplasm banks. At the same time, indigenous nations are working to protect their food, water, and seeds. Inadequate communication between these two groups risks creating unnecessary barriers and the loss of important information. The conference will provide the opportunity for scholars, practitioners, and advocates to share their understandings of issues that are critical to the wellbeing and survival of people around the world. Conference outcomes will also further social science theories of how different cognitive understanding of the natural world lead to critical differences in human behavior in relation to nature. Funds will support the participation of invited speakers at the plenary symposium, professional development of students through travel scholarships and a mentoring lunch, and broadened participation of underrepresented groups in social and biological sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.