BBSRC Institute Strategic Programmes (John Innes Centre): NISD Partner Grant

John Innes中心（JIC）是位于诺维奇研究园（NRP）的一群杰出研究机构之一，其中还包括诺维奇可持续发展研究所（NISD），这是一家专门从事自然科学和社会科学研究的研究机构。与NISD合作使JIC能够增强其全球和社会视角，促进与社会科学，营养科学，环境科学和气候研究领域的世界领先研究的接触。通过合作，JIC作为植物和微生物研究所的临界质量与东安格利亚大学和整个NRP的大学环境中发现的广泛专业知识相辅相成，并在英国和世界各地（包括全球南部）产生最大影响。JIC NISD伙伴关系的目标：我们已经确定了这项伙伴关系赠款的三个关键目标，涵盖JIC的四个研究所战略计划，促进植物健康，建立作物健壮性，提供可持续的小麦和利用生物合成促进可持续的粮食和健康。这些是：1.利用社会和环境科学的见解为作物改良提供信息，以提高气候适应力和可持续性。利用作物基因组编辑为人类健康和环境带来益处，应对技术、政策和可接受性挑战。利用关于消费者行为转变的专业知识以及粮食系统转型的机遇和挑战，实现蛋白质来源多样化。

The John Innes Centre (JIC) is one of a cluster of outstanding research institutes located on the Norwich Research Park (NRP), which also includes the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development (NISD), an institute specialising in integrating research in the natural and social sciences. Working with NISD enables JIC to enhance its global and social perspective, facilitating engagement with world-leading research in social sciences, nutritional science, environmental science and climate research. By working collaboratively, JIC's critical mass as a plant and microbial research institute is complemented with the breadth of expertise found within a university environment at the University of East Anglia and across the NRP and maximise impacts both in the UK and around the world, including the Global South. Aims for the JIC NISD Partnership:We have identified three key aims for this partnership grant that span JIC's four Institute Strategic Programmes, Advancing Plant Health, Building Robustness in Crops, Delivering Sustainable Wheat and Harnessing Biosynthesis for Sustainable Food and Health. These are to:1. Use insights from social and environmental sciences to inform crop improvement for climate resilience and sustainability.2. Utilise crop genome editing for human health and environmental benefits, navigating technical, policy and acceptability challenges.3. Diversify protein sources, using expertise on shifting consumer behaviour as well as opportunities and challenges to food system transformation.