NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing climate resilient food technologies (HI, USAPI)

这一区域创新引擎发展奖的重点是促进转化研究的生态系统，以增加夏威夷水产养殖、渔业和农业部门的可持续粮食生产和经济扩张。该发展奖整合了土著知识系统和科学技术，以生产粮食产品和服务，以应对服务不足社区的粮食不安全、过度依赖粮食进口以及气候变化日益严重的影响等挑战。该团队的合作伙伴代表着该地区实现拟议工作的最强大的贡献者--一个由创新者和企业家、学术机构、企业、政府和投资组织组成的多样化团体，这些团体在价值数十亿美元的区域食品行业中具有重大影响力，并支持有助于国家和全球经济影响的活动。这一发展奖将促进食品系统创新方面的区域努力，促进创新、多样性、公平、包容和可获得性的强大文化。支持从农业、渔业和水产养殖生产粮食的新方法，包括本地管理的土地和水产资源，以直接供应市场，以解决公平和正义问题，并为区域经济发展和多样化提供粮食系统模式的有效实施。该地区目前有许多有才华的早期食品系统初创公司和研究活动，预计这些公司将通过发展奖在创新范围、活动规模和企业数量方面扩大。为了推动这种扩张，为具有弹性的食品体系建设一支劳动力队伍，对于持续增长至关重要。该团队将与18家为夏威夷原住民、亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民提供服务的少数族裔服务机构(MSI)合作，以确定现有的项目，填补目前教育领域的空白，培训熟练劳动力，并发起未来一波企业家浪潮，以实现食品生产的长期增长。发展奖将使团队能够通过支持为期两年的过程来为NSF引擎做准备，以评估、规划和协调合作伙伴之间的活动，从而允许对资源、机会和挑战进行全面评估，以告知目标、结构和运营。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 Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on catalyzing an ecosystem for translational research that increases sustainable food production and economic expansion in Hawaii's aquaculture, fisheries, and agriculture sectors. This Development Award integrates Indigenous knowledge systems and scientific technologies to generate food products and services to respond to the challenges of food insecurity among underserved communities, an over-reliance on food imports, and the burgeoning effects of climate change. The team's partners represent the strongest possible contributors in the region to achieve the proposed work - a diverse group of innovators and entrepreneurs, academic institutions, businesses, governments, and investment organizations that provide a significant influence within the multibillion-dollar regional food industry and support activities that contribute to national and global economic impacts. This Development Award will enable a regional effort in food system innovations that promotes a robust culture of innovation, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Novel approaches to food production from agriculture, fisheries, and aquaculture, including indigenously-managed land and aquatic resources, are supported to directly supply markets to address issues of equity and justice and provide working implementations of food system models for regional economic development and diversification. The region currently houses numerous talented, early-stage food system start-ups and research activities, which are anticipated to expand in the scope of innovation, the scale of activity, and the number of businesses through the Development Award. To fuel this expansion, building a workforce for resilient food systems is critical for sustained growth. The team will engage with a collective of 18 Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) that serve Native Hawaiians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders to identify existing programs, fill current gaps in the education landscape, train a skilled labor force, and launch future waves of entrepreneurs for long-term growth in food production. The Development Award will enable the team to prepare for an NSF Engine by supporting a two-year process to assess, plan, and coordinate activities among partners that allows a comprehensive evaluation of resources, opportunities, and challenges to inform the goals, structure, and operations.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.