Food for Thought: Agricultural Systems for a Healthy Planet

来自思想的食物将把Guelph世界领先的生物多样性研究与其进行农业食品系统研究的前所未有的能力结合起来，并取得突破，提高国内和全球农业和食品系统的安全性、可持续性、弹性和效率。通过这样做，来自思想的食品将提高加拿大的经济、环境和社会福祉，以及我们农业食品部门的竞争力。我们的机构战略是通过两个新的机构结构支持来自思想的食品科学计划：(1)农业-食品与生物多样性复杂计算中心，该中心将整合校园内的专业计算节点，与IBM和南安大略省智能计算创新平台建立合作伙伴关系，并在与食品和生物多样性分析相关的领域设立5个新的教员职位；(2)农业-食品与生物多样性创新与孵化中心，将与J.W.麦康奈尔基金会、枫叶食品公司和Loblaw合作，创建创新和培训平台，以确保有意义和持久的社会和经济效益。我们还将投资财政资源，在未来七年内将食物从思想中转移出来，这项提议将带来4000万美元的新资金。此外，高级行政人员是领导团队的一员，将确保该项目与大学的优先事项挂钩，并遵守健全的报告做法。衡量成果和交流成果至关重要，并将以学术和注重影响的指标为基础，由广泛的利益攸关方共同确定。

Food from Thought will combine Guelph's world-leading biodiversity research with its unprecedented capacity to conduct agri-food systems research, and deliver breakthroughs that will increase the safety, sustainability, resilience, and efficiency of agricultural and food systems at home and globally. In doing so, Food from Thought will enhance Canada's economic, environmental, and social well-being, as well as the competitiveness of our agri-food sector. Our institutional strategy is to support Food from Thought's scientific plan with two new institutional structures: (1) The Agri-Food & Biodiversity Centre for Complex Computing that will integrate on-campus computational nodes of expertise together with partnerships involving IBM and the Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform and five new faculty positions in fields related to food and biodiversity analytics; and (2) The Agri-Food and Biodiversity Centre for Innovation and Incubation that will work with the J.W. McConnell foundation, Maple Leaf Foods and Loblaw to create innovation and training platforms to ensure meaningful and lasting social and economic benefits. We will also invest the financial resources to carry Food from Thought beyond the next seven years and this proposal brings commitments of $40M in new money. In addition, the senior executive is part of the leadership team and will ensure this project links to university priorities and adheres to sound reporting practices. Measuring outcomes and communicating results are vital and will be based on academic and impact-oriented indicators to be determined with a broad range of stakeholders.