IRES Track 1: US-Morocco Collaborative Research for Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Women's Argan Oil Production

IRES 轨道 1：美国-摩洛哥合作研究社会和环境可持续的女性摩洛哥坚果油生产

• 批准号: 1952477
• 负责人: Colleen Naughton
• 金额: $ 11.99万
• 依托单位: University of California - Merced
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1952477&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Track; US; Morocco; Collaborative; IRES; Track; US; Morocco; Collaborative

Population growth and changing climates have made it difficult to ensure equitable access to food, water, and economic security across the globe, particularly for women and vulnerable communities. In southern Morocco, rural women engage in the production of argan oil that is extracted from the nuts of an indigenous tree. As both an edible and cosmetic product in high demand on the world market, argan provides a source of food and income to local communities and benefits the environment by conserving argan trees that prevent erosion and desertification. Through an interdisciplinary field school over three summers, U.S. students will conduct research with Moroccan faculty and students to investigate environmental and socioeconomic aspects of women’s argan production. This project provides professional development opportunities for 18 U.S. students in undergraduate and graduate programs in Environmental Engineering and Systems and Anthropology at UC Merced and USF. USF and UC Merced have partnered with Dar Si Hmad for Development, Education and Culture and Université Ibn Zohr in Agadir, Morocco to provide international research experience for students. The skills and experience students gain through this project will be applicable to other food and livelihood systems in the United States and throughout the world. The overall goal of this collaborative USF-UC Merced IRES project is to train an interdisciplinary workforce to research and design socially and environmentally sustainable and equitable systems. Specific objectives of USF-UC Merced IRES are to: (1) Provide interdisciplinary summer research opportunities between environmental engineers and scientists and anthropologists, (2) Educate students in environmental and social life cycle assessment (E-LCA and S-LCA) and thinking to better design systems, (3) Train students in household livelihood systems approaches and ethnographic and qualitative research methods, (4) Exchange research findings with host communities and partner institutions to improve the environmental sustainability and socioeconomic benefits of argan oil production as a model for other food systems, (5) Increase the amount of underrepresented minorities, women, and lower income students that participate in international research and improve the long-term global competency of the U.S. workforce, and (6) Strengthen collaboration between the United States and international institutions in Morocco.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

人口增长和气候变化使得难以确保全球范围内公平获得食品，水和经济安全，特别是对于妇女和弱势社区。在摩洛哥南部，粗糙的妇女从一棵土著树的坚果中提取的摩洛哥坚果油生产。作为对世界市场需求量高的可食用和化妆品，Argan为当地社区提供了粮食和收入来源，并通过保护防止侵蚀和荒漠化的摩洛哥坚果树来使环境受益。通过三个夏天的跨学科野外学校，美国学生将与摩洛哥教师和学生进行研究，以调查妇女摩擦的生产的环境和社会经济方面。该项目为UC Merced和USF的环境工程，系统和人类学的本科和研究生课程提供了18名美国学生的专业发展机会。 USF和UC Merced已与DAR Si HMAD合作开发，教育和文化以及摩洛哥阿加迪尔大学的Ibn Zohr大学，为学生提供国际研究经验。通过该项目，学生会获得的技能和经验将适用于美国和全世界的其他食品和生计系统。这个协作的USF-UC Merced IRES项目的总体目标是培训跨学科的劳动力，以在社会和环境可持续和公平的系统上研究和设计。 USF-UC Merced Ires的特定对象是：（1）为环境工程师与科学家和人类学家之间提供跨学科的夏季研究机会，（2）教育学生对环境和社会生命周期评估（E-LCA和S-LCA）（E-LCA和S-LCA）（E-LCA和S-LCA）（E-LCA和S-LCA）以及对更好的设计系统进行思考，（3）培训家庭生活的研究和合成的研究方法，（4）与组织的研究方法（4），（4）（4），（4）培训了企业的社区（4）（4）（4）（4）（4）（4）（4）（4）（4）（4）（4）（4）（4）（4）（4） （5）增加参与国际研究并提高美国劳动力的长期全球全球能力的少数群体，妇女和较低收入的学生的数量，以及（6）通过摩洛哥的协作反映了摩洛哥的协作，增加了美国劳动力的长期全球能力，增加了代表性的全球能力。基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评论标准。