Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Guiding the pursuit for sustainability by co-developing a Sustainable Agriculture Matrix (SAM)

该奖项通过贝尔蒙特论坛，为参与由55个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持对全球环境变化挑战和机遇采取跨学科办法。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这一办法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球意义的专题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国办法加以处理，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，使他们能够在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作。 这些小组将建立跨学科网络，为可持续发展道路制定创新解决方案，并寻求评估经济、技术、机构与环境、气候、生物多样性、和人类福祉，了解通往可持续世界的潜在途径。该项目的重点是通过与利益攸关方合作，制定衡量农业可持续性的指标体系和相关产品。 该联盟将确定与农业有关的各种可持续发展目标之间的相互联系，并确定推进可持续农业的战略，以帮助制定政策。为了最大限度地加强跨学科、跨部门和跨国家的互动与合作，联合体将组织一系列联网和共同学习活动，如联合体范围内的会议、定期经验分享和同行学习会议以及实地考察。 该研究团队还将培养跨国合作伙伴关系，调查农业可持续发展的历史轨迹，并分析其制定的指标与每个地区和地球仪的可持续发展目标之间的权衡。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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 support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The teams will establish transdisciplinary networks to develop innovative solutions for sustainable development pathways and seek to assess the positive and negative inter-linkages between the economy, technology, institutions with the environment, climate, biodiversity, and human well-being to understand potential pathways to a sustainable world.The project focuses on formulating pathways for sustainable agriculture by engaging with stakeholders to co-develop an indicator system and associated products that will measure agriculture sustainability. The consortium will identify the inter-linkages among various sustainable development goals (SDGs) related to agriculture and identify strategies for advancing sustainable agriculture to help inform policy. To maximize the interactions and collaborations across the boundaries of disciplines, sectors, and nations, the consortium will organize a range of networking and co-learning activities, such as consortium-wide meetings, regular experience sharing and peer-learning sessions, and field visits. The research team will also cultivate cross-country partnerships to investigate the historical trajectories of agriculture sustainability and to analyze tradeoffs between their developed indicators and SDGs in each region and the globe.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.