IGERT: Food Systems and Poverty Reduction

IGERT：粮食系统和减贫

• 批准号: 0903371
• 负责人: Christopher Barrett
• 金额: $ 318.72万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0903371&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Food; Systems; Poverty; Reduction

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5). This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports the development of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research in food systems as they relate to poverty reduction. Most people suffering chronic extreme poverty live in rural areas in developing countries and rely heavily on food systems - the human-managed biophysical systems that regulate the production, distribution and consumption of food - as producers, consumers and/or workers. Food systems improvements have stimulated long-term improvements in human well-being yet these improvements elude people currently suffering extreme poverty. This program provides graduate students with the conceptual and methodological tools necessary for understanding the structure and dynamics of complex systems that perpetuate extreme rural poverty. This rich understanding of the larger context into which their own disciplinary studies fit enhances students' ability to assess the implications, potential and impact of discipline-specific scientific discoveries. A distinguishing feature of this program is that students work in interdisciplinary research teams at shared research sites in East Africa, organized around intellectually challenging, ecologically complex and socioeconomically important problems that drive extreme poverty and require broadly informed science and policies to address. The resulting training will build a diverse cadre of skilled natural and social scientists able to integrate information from diverse sub-systems to conduct scientifically sound, systems-based research to help spur the development of food system interventions and strategies that can reduce extreme poverty worldwide. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。 这项综合研究生教育和研究实习生（IGERT）奖支持了与减贫相关的食品系统教育和研究的多学科研究生培训计划。大多数遭受慢性极端贫困的人生活在发展中国家的农村地区，并严重依赖粮食系统（人为管理的生物物理系统，可以调节食品的生产，分配和消费 - 作为生产者，消费者和/或工人。粮食系统的改善刺激了人类福祉的长期改善，但这些改善却避免了目前遭受极端贫困的人们。 该计划为研究生提供了理解延续极端农村贫困的复杂系统的结构和动态所必需的概念和方法学工具。对自己的纪律研究拟合的更大背景的这种丰富的理解增强了学生评估特定科学发现的含义，潜在和影响的能力。 该计划的一个显着特征是，学生在东非共享研究地点的跨学科研究团队工作，围绕着智力挑战，生态复杂和社会经济上重要的问题，这些问题驱动极端贫困，需要广泛知情的科学和政策才能解决。由此产生的培训将建立各种各样的熟练的自然和社会科学家干部，能够整合来自各种子系系统的信息，以进行科学合理的基于系统的研究，以帮助促进食品系统干预和策略的发展，从而减少全球极端贫困。 IGERT是一项旨在应对美国博士学位的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，所选学科的深刻知识以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过在肥沃的环境中建立创新的研究生教育和培训的新模型来促进研究生教育的文化变革，以超越传统学科界限的合作研究。