CAREER: FEAST (Food Ecosystems And circularity for Sustainable Transformation) framework to address Hidden Hunger

长期饥饿影响7.83亿人；隐性饥饿（饮食中缺乏必需微量营养素——维生素和矿物质）影响着20多亿人。该项目旨在通过一种文化上合适的、自下而上的、循环的粮食生态系统方法来改善隐性饥饿，以了解整个粮食系统中的微量营养素缺乏。流行的自上而下的线性食物系统模型限制了当前理解和解决饥饿问题的方法。线性模型要么关注增加粮食产量（农场），要么关注最终消费者（叉子）。线性食品系统模型的中间部分（食品加工）对服务不足的社区的可及性有限。了解中间环节（食品加工）对于解决粮食和营养安全问题以实现粮食系统的可持续转型至关重要。该项目旨在通过研究开发一个循环盛宴框架，通过可持续的食品加工来复兴古老的文化适宜的奥塞奇食物，以解决奥塞奇民族的隐性饥饿问题。了解土壤-水-植物-食物-人的微量营养素分布可以促进科学见解和食物生态系统中微量营养素的相互联系。这种将定性和定量数据联系起来的基本理解将有助于设计预防研究地区隐性饥饿的策略：俄克拉何马州Pawhuska的奥塞奇（wah - zhaz - zhe）民族。FEAST项目旨在通过三个研究里程碑(M)和三个教育目标（EG），研究可持续食品加工工程策略，以解决奥塞奇族的隐性饥饿问题，并支持粮食主权。（m1）了解土壤-水-植物-食物-人之间与食物系统中微量营养素缺乏之间的具体相互作用，以及这种理解如何为奥塞奇族提供有针对性的干预措施，以有效解决微量营养素缺乏问题。（M2）通过采用10步FPE（食品加工工程）协议，并将古老的食品知识与新技术联系起来，以促进经济发展，解决可持续食品加工工程是否可以用于提高奥塞奇族传统食品[接骨木]的营养、可及性和可用性。(3)在奥塞奇族共同创建一个将循环粮食系统与可持续发展目标（sdg）逐层整合的盛宴框架，以建立有弹性的粮食和营养安全系统。盛宴框架可以扩展到其他部落国家，以支持粮食主权。该项目的教育目标（EG）旨在提高人们对隐性饥饿、可持续食品加工和可持续发展目标的认识。EG1：让学生参与FEAST项目的实际问题，参与两门团队合作课程：食品加工工程和零饥饿挑战。EG2：根据咨询委员会的输入与奥塞奇成员互动，为参与研究设计一个奥塞奇特定的文化能力模块。EG3：开发奥塞奇语和英语的数字故事书应用程序。项目团队将与奥塞奇民族-收割地合作，举办两次为期两天的“盛宴-可持续发展目标”研讨会，包括可持续食品加工的实践培训，以恢复奥塞奇食品（来自M2和M3），并与可持续发展目标相联系。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Chronic hunger affects 783 million people; hidden hunger (lack of essential micronutrients - vitamins and minerals - in the diet) affects more than 2 billion people. This project seeks to ameliorate hidden hunger through a culturally appropriate, bottom-up, circular food ecosystems approach to understand the micronutrient deficiencies throughout the food system. The prevailing top-down linear food system model limits current approaches to understanding and addressing hunger. The linear model either focuses on increasing food production (farm) or the end consumer (fork). The middle segment of the linear food system model (food processing) has limited accessibility to underserved communities. Understanding the middle segment (food processing) is important to address food and nutrition security for the sustainable transformation of food systems. This project aims to develop a circular FEAST framework through research to revive an ancient culturally appropriate Osage food via sustainable food processing to address hidden hunger at the Osage Nation. Understanding the micronutrient profiles from soil - water - plants - food - people can advance scientific insights and the interconnections of micronutrients in the food ecosystem. This fundamental understanding connecting qualitative and quantitative data will help design strategies to prevent hidden hunger in the study region: Osage (Wah-Zha-Zhe) Nation, Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The FEAST Project aims to investigate sustainable food process engineering strategies to address hidden hunger and support food sovereignty in the Osage Nation via three Research Milestones (M) and three Educational Goals (EG). (M 1) To understand the specific interactions in the soil-water-plant-food-people connecting micronutrient deficiencies in the food system, and how this understanding can inform targeted interventions for the Osage Nation to address micronutrient deficiencies effectively. (M2) To address if sustainable food process engineering can be leveraged to enhance the nutrition, accessibility, and availability of a traditional food [elderberry] at the Osage Nation, by adopting a 10 step FPE (Food Process Engineering) protocol and connecting ancient food knowledge with new technology to enhance the economic development. (M 3) Co-creating a FEAST framework with layer-by-layer integration connecting circular food systems and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the Osage Nation to build resilient food and nutrition security systems. The FEAST framework can be scaled to other Tribal Nations to support food sovereignty. The project's Educational Goals (EG) seek to increase awareness about hidden hunger, sustainable food processing, and SDGs. EG1: Engaging students with real-life problems from the FEAST project into two courses for teamwork: Food Process Engineering and Zero Hunger Challenge. EG2: Designing an Osage specific Cultural Competence for Engaged Research module with inputs from an Advisory Board to interact with the Osage members. EG3: Developing a digital storybook app in Osage (Wah-Zha-Zhe) language and English. The project team will partner with the Osage Nation- Harvest Land to conduct a pair of two-day FEAST-SDG workshops, including hands-on training on sustainable food processing to revive an Osage food (from M2 & M3) and connecting to SDGs.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.