Water, nutrient and future of food production

全球作物产量的增长主要是通过大量使用后来转移到水体中的农药和化肥实现的。我们的目标是通过建立一个优化驱动的模型，旨在模拟地方-区域一级的水质贸易，并将其应用于英国的一个或多个地区，为未来的食品生产设计一个有效的响应。将对不同的工业和部门进行营养、经济和环境方面的评估。学生将使用现有的农场模型，并利用开发的模型来研究水质贸易对不同气候条件下农民行为和营养生产的影响，从而提供可信的证据，以解决以市场为导向的农业扩张对水的影响，环境和人类健康。

The global growth of crop production has been achieved mainly through the intensive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers transferred later to water bodies. We aim to design an effective response for future food production by building an optimisation-driven model aiming to simulate water quality trade at the local-regional level and applying it to one or more regions in the UK. Valuation of nutrient, economically and environmentally to different industries and sectors will be performed. The student will use the existing farm modelling and advance it with the developed model in studying water quality trade impact on farmers behaviour and nutritional production under different climate conditions, and as a consequence, provide credible evidences to address the implication of a market oriented agricultural expansion on water abstraction, environmental and human health.