WORKSHOP: Local and Alternative Food Systems in Stressed Environments: France, May 2019 & North Carolina, October 2019

该奖项支持美国科学家、学生和农民参加两个研究规划研讨会。未来研究的目标将是更好地理解危机背景下人类环境决策。研讨会的重点将是当地的食品系统。一些研究人员认为，小的、本地化的系统效率低下，对环境有害。其他人发现，当地的食品体系值得注意的是，它们支持社会公平、公民身份和长期可持续性。这一系列研讨会旨在将农民和社会科学家聚集在一起，模拟农民在应对以前的危机时如何处理这些问题，以便规划研究，以预测和改善当地粮食系统对未来危机的反应能力。这项研究将采取比较的方法，将重点放在美国阿巴拉契亚南部和法国西南部地区。每个地区的乡村景观都具有重要的文化价值，居民表现出强烈的地方依恋，在这两个地区，当地的食物系统最近出现了复兴。第一次研讨会将于2019年5月20日至24日在法国奥苏鲁克举行；第二次研讨会将于2019年10月12日至16日在北卡罗来纳州布恩举行。研讨会的议程将包括对这些地区的农民进行实地访问，以及农民和科学家之间的会议，以模拟以前的行为并确定知识差距。未来的研究将通过方法的生命周期分析、经济和政策分析以及社会文化分析来解决这些差距。研讨会的结果将在会议上发表，并作为拨款提案的基础，以资助更大规模的研究。这一奖项反映了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 supports the participation of U.S. scientists, students, and farmers in two research-planning workshops. The goal of the future research will be to better understand human environmental decision-making in crises contexts. The workshops will focus on local food systems. Some researchers have argued that small, localized systems are inefficient and environmentally harmful. Others have found that local food systems are noteworthy for their support of social equity, citizenship, and long-term sustainability. This workshop series is designed to bring farmers and social scientists together to model how these issues have played out as farmers responded to previous crises in order to plan research to predict and improve responsiveness of local food systems to future crises. The research will take a comparative approach by focusing on southern Appalachia, in the U.S., and the southwestern region of France. Rural landscapes in each region have important cultural value, residents exhibit strong place-attachment, and in both areas, local food systems have seen a recent resurgence. The first workshop will take place (May 20-24, 2019) in Aussurucq, France; the second will take place (October 12-16,2019) in Boone, North Carolina. The workshop agendas will include site visits with farmers in these regions as well as meetings between farmers and scientists to model previous behaviors and identify knowledge gaps. The future research will address these gaps through life cycle analyses of approaches, economic and policy analyses, and socio-cultural analyses. Findings from the workshop will be presented in conferences and used as the basis for a grant proposal to fund the larger-scale study.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.