Nutrient Utilization Forum

在农业中使用氮肥是生产者的最大投入成本，也可能对环境产生深远的影响。鉴于由于人口增加和饮食变化而需要在世界范围内提高产量，因此必须利用一切可用的工具来加强作物生产的经济和环境可持续性，以满足这一需求。因此，养分利用效率是植物界不容忽视的问题。我们认为，需要作出合作努力，以确定正在使用哪些方法来提高养分的利用效率，并确定重要的科学缺失部分。该讲习班将侧重于制定一套建议，以确定公共、私营和慈善部门如何共同努力解决这一重要问题。虽然我们认识到发展这种类型的合作关系所面临的重大挑战，但我们坚信，作为一个社区，现在是集中精力解决一些更重要的农业问题的时候了。此外，尽管所面临的挑战因国家而异，但这确实是一个全球性问题。因此，我们希望将一个国际组织聚集在一起，制定一项行动计划。

The use of nitrogenous fertilizers in farming is the largest input cost to producers and can also have a profound impact on the environment. Given the need to increase yields world-wide due to increases in population and changes in diet, it is crucial to use every tool available to enhance the economic and environmental sustainability of crop production to meet this need. Therefore, nutrient use efficiency is a problem the plant biology community can no longer afford to ignore. It is our belief that a co-operative effort needs to be made to determine what approaches are being used to improve nutrient use efficiency and identify the important missing pieces of science. This Workshop will focus on developing a set of proposals to identify how the public, private and philanthropic sectors can work together to address this important issue. While recognizing the significant challenges associated with developing these types of collaborative relationships, we firmly believe that the time has come to focus, as a community, on solving some of agriculture's more significant problems. Furthermore, although the challenges differ depending on the country in question, this is truly a global problem. Therefore, we want to bring an international group together to develop an action plan.