RCN-SEES: Coordinating Phosphorus Research to Create a Sustainable Food System

RCN-SEES：协调磷研究以创建可持续的粮食系统

• 批准号: 1230603
• 负责人: James Elser
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1230603&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; SEES; Coordinating; Phosphorus; Research

Steering Committee: James Elser, Rimjhim Aggarwal, and Helen Rowe at Arizona State University;Tauhidur Rahman, University of Arizona; David Vaccari, Stephens Institute of Technology; AnitaStreet, US Department of Energy; Robert Mikkelsen, International Plant Nutrition InstituteIntellectual Merit: Phosphorus (P) is an essential element to life and, with few exceptions, a necessaryfertilizer for high agricultural yield. Because P cannot be manufactured and global supply is limited,this chemical element poses a unique, double-sided threat to sustainability. P scarcity leads tohigh prices and poverty for poor farmers in developing countries, but in industrialized nations, excessP from farms and in urban waste streams degrades downstream water quality. The issues surroundingP sustainability are deeply complex and involve diverse geological, biogeochemical, economic, andgeopolitical dimensions that are currently unconsolidated. Environmental degradation due to nutrientrunoff and potential threats to global food security urgently call for an end to this disjointed approachto phosphorus. The goal of the P Sustainability Research Coordination Network (RCN) is to spark aninterdisciplinary synthesis of data, perspectives, and understanding about phosphorus to identify andimplement solutions for P sustainability.The RCN theme, objectives, and initial topics build upon broad agreement on key P sustainabilitychallenges reached at a recent Sustainable P Summit (SPS) led by James Elser and colleague Dan Childers.The RCN will involve two phases centered on three Challenge Areas. Phase I groups will workon two Challenges: (1) Improving P efficiency in food production; (2) Developing robust pathwaysof P recycling. At the Kick-off Workshop, identified Core Members will develop Working Groupscentered around these challenge areas. These Groups will be further populated with At-Large Membersrecruited through a widely advertised application process that will allow us to target qualifiedgraduate students, postdocs, and members of under-represented groups. In Year 3, a Synthesis Workshopwill report on the science and solution outcomes from Phase I and develop new Phase II WorkingGroups focused on Challenge 3: Integrating efficiency and recycling to create a sustainable food system.A Wrap-up Workshop, held early in Year 5, will be held to report on science and solution outcomesfrom Phase II and provide the push to finalize outcomes.Broader Impacts: Central to the P Sustainability RCN will be recruitment of a diverse network ofparticipants of different professions, ranks, genders, races, ethnicities, and nationalities. The SteeringCommittee will reflect this diversity, including three students in ex officio capacity, giving them invaluableexperience in leadership, networking, collaborative science, and policy. To communicate keyaspects of RCN work, we will produce two dynamic, high-quality videos to reach targeted audiences offarmers, educators, fertilizer industry, and policy makers. The three RCN Workshops will be held inWashington DC in order to facilitate participation by policy makers, government officials, representativesof agriculture and the fertilizer industry, and urban planners with the aim of developing research prioritiesfor the RCN, presenting outcomes and planning implementation of sustainability solutions.

指导委员会：亚利桑那州立大学的James Elser，Rimjhim Aggarwal和Helen Rowe；亚利桑那大学Tauhidur Ra​​hman；斯蒂芬斯技术学院的David Vaccari；美国能源部Anitastreet；罗伯特·米克尔森（Robert Mikkelsen），国际植物营养学院的优点：磷（P）是生命的基本要素，除了少数例外，是高农业产量的必要特性。由于P不能制造P，并且全球供应受到限制，因此该化学元素对可持续性构成了独特的双向威胁。 P稀缺会导致发展中国家贫困农民的价格高昂的价格和贫困，但是在工业化国家，农场过多的贫民和城市废物流中的贫困人口降低了下游水质。围绕可持续性的问题非常复杂，涉及目前未经合并的各种地质​​，生物地球化学，经济和地理位置维度。由于养分和对全球粮食安全的潜在威胁而导致的环境退化，迫切要求结束这种对磷的脱节方法。 P可持续性研究协调网络（RCN）的目标是激发数据，观点和对磷的理解的合成，以识别P可持续性的识别和实施解决方案。RCN主题，目标，最初的主题和最初的主题是基于最新的Pastion Castorability of Perive Proge of Cosition Castorability of Cosition Castorable Chiper the James Elser（Spsn）的詹姆斯（Spsn），詹姆斯（James）的经验。阶段集中在三个挑战区域。第一阶段小组将为两个挑战工作：（1）提高粮食生产的P效率； （2）开发回收的强大途径。在开球研讨会上，确定的核心成员将在这些挑战领域开发工作组。这些小组将通过广泛宣传的申请流程来进一步填充一般会员，这将使我们能够针对合格的毕业生，博士后和代表性不足的小组的成员。在第3年，一项关于第一阶段的科学和解决方案结果的合成研讨会报告，并开发了针对挑战的新的II阶段工作组3：整合效率和回收利用以创建可持续的食品系统。第5年初举行的总结研讨会将在第五年度举行，以报告科学和解决方案II阶段的启动和解决方案的启动范围。由不同专业，等级，性别，种族，种族和国籍组成的不同参与者网络。指导委员会将反映出这一多样性，其中包括三名以官员身份的学生，使他们在领导力，网络，协作科学和政策方面具有无价的经验。为了传达RCN工作的关键，我们将制作两个动态的高质量视频，以吸引有针对性的受众群体，教育者，肥料行业和政策制定者。为了促进政策制定者，政府官员，农业和肥料行业代表以及城市规划师的参与，将举办三个RCN研讨会，以促进RCN的研究优先级，呈现结果和计划实施可持续性解决方案。