Healthy soil, Healthy food, Healthy people (H3)

这项计划汇集了来自谢菲尔德大学、利兹大学、布里斯托尔大学、剑桥大学和城市大学的世界级研究人员，旨在通过一个关于健康土壤、健康食品和健康人的跨学科研究的综合计划，从根本上改变英国的食品体系(H3)。H3联盟致力于解决食品生产和消费之间的联系，并采取整体系统的方法，通过一系列干预措施确定实现英国食品体系转型的可行途径：在农场、食品制造、分销和零售方面，以及在英国家庭和社区食品消费的健康影响和不平等方面。拟议的研究涉及呼吁文本中概述的所有英国政府政策驱动因素，从饮食相关的不良健康到减少温室气体排放，从生物多样性到土壤健康和水质，重建对食品体系的信任，促进清洁增长并支持科学研究和新技术的转化，以造福英国经济和社会。我们的方法完全是跨学科的，结合了世界级的土壤和植物科学家、健康研究人员、经济学家和社会科学家。研究团队拥有多年合作经验，领导跨学科研究中心，共同指导博士生，并在包括N8农业食品计划在内的众多研究项目上进行合作。我们对农业食品系统采取综合方法，认识到其内在的复杂性，并应对快速变化的监管环境带来的治理挑战。我们建议的研究涉及六个相互关联的工作包。第一个是通过对农业实践的基础研究来推进新的种植技术，这些农业实践有可能改变我们种植的粮食的质量，同时将其对环境的影响降至最低。第二个项目旨在将水培农业和传统的土基农业结合起来，在城市周边地区建立一个相互联系的混合示范农场网络，以鼓励改善饮食健康和环境可持续性。第三项研究将这些想法扩展到景观规模，从减少化肥和杀虫剂的使用以及提高食品质量的角度评估再生农业的好处。第四，通过应用最先进的生物强化方法，提高已经成为英国现有饮食一部分的食品的营养价值，解决微营养素缺乏对公共卫生的关键挑战。第五项旨在根据从丹麦全谷物伙伴关系中吸取的经验教训，增加纤维的消费及其带来的健康和可持续效益；第六项寻求通过与零售商和消费者的合作研究，提高粮食系统对经济、健康和环境冲击的复原力。三个贯穿各领域的主题(现金转移)提供了工作包之间的进一步整合。第一个重点是综合方法的应用，如长期可持续性评估和情景构建方法，以评估不同干预措施和政策选择对环境、社会和经济的影响。第二个重点是消费者需求、公众可接受性和可负担性问题；第三个是确保利益相关者的参与在整个计划中一致，重点是在五年资助期内和之后的知识交流和影响。H3联盟由彼得·杰克逊教授和邓肯·卡梅伦教授领导，他们共同领导谢菲尔德大学可持续食品研究所。加入他们的还有一个核心团队，其中包括工作方案和CCT领导人，更广泛的合作调查员和PDRA小组，以及一名经验丰富的业务发展经理，专注于最大化我们的研究在政府、商业和公民社会中的影响。

Bringing together world-class researchers from Sheffield, Leeds, Bristol, Cambridge and City Universities, this proposal seeks to transform the UK food system 'from the ground up' via an integrated programme of interdisciplinary research on healthy soil, healthy food and healthy people (H3). The H3 Consortium addresses the links between food production and consumption and takes a whole systems approach to identify workable paths towards a transformed UK food system, delivered via a series of interventions: on farm, in food manufacturing, distribution and retail, and in terms of the health implications and inequalities associated with food consumption in UK homes and communities.The proposed research addresses all of the UK government policy drivers outlined in the Call text from diet-related ill health to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, from biodiversity to soil health and water quality, rebuilding trust in the food system, promoting clean growth and supporting the translation of scientific research and new technologies for the benefit of the UK economy and society.Our approach is thoroughly interdisciplinary, combining world-class soil and plant scientists, health researchers, economists and social scientists The research team have many years' experience of working together, leading interdisciplinary research centres, co-supervising PhD students and collaborating on numerous research projects including the N8 agri-food programme.We take an integrated approach to the agri-food system, recognizing its inherent complexity and addressing the governance challenges that arise from the rapidly changing regulatory landscape.Our proposed research involves six interconnected work-packages. The first advances novel growing technologies via fundamental research into agricultural practices that have the potential to transform the quality of food we grow while minimising its environmental impact. The second aims to combine hydroponic and conventional soil-based agriculture, creating a linked network of hybrid demonstrator farms in peri-urban areas to encourage improvements in dietary health and environmental sustainability. The third extends these ideas to the landscape scale, evaluating the benefits of regenerative agriculture in terms of reduced fertiliser and pesticide use and increased food quality. The fourth addresses the key public health challenges of micro-nutrient deficiency through the application of state of the art methods of biofortification, enhancing the nutritional value of foods that are already part of established UK diets. The fifth seeks to increase the consumption of fibre with its attendant health and sustainability benefits, based on lessons learnt from the Danish wholegrain partnership; while the sixth seeks to increase food system resilience to economic, health and environmental shocks through collaborative research with retailers and consumers. Three cross-cutting themes (CCTs) provide further integration across the work-packages. The first focuses on the application of integrative methods such as LCA and scenario-building approaches to assess the environmental, social and economic impact of different interventions and policy options. The second focuses on issues of consumer demand, public acceptability and affordability; while the third ensures that stakeholder involvement features consistently throughout the programme, with a strong emphasis on knowledge exchange and impact within and beyond the five-year funding period.The H3 Consortium is led by Professors Peter Jackson and Duncan Cameron who co-direct the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield. They are joined by a core team, comprising the work-package and CCT leaders, a wider group of co-investigators and PDRAs, and an experienced business development manager, focused on maximising the impact of our research in government, business and civil society.