NSF Engines Development Award: Creating climate-resilient opportunities for plant systems (NC)

NSF 发动机开发奖：为工厂系统创造气候适应机会 (NC)

• 批准号: 2315399
• 负责人: Gregory Goins
• 金额: $ 99.99万
• 依托单位: North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315399&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Creating

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award seeks to build an innovation ecosystem that builds climate resilience into farming communities in North Carolina (NC). Underserved and small farms in the state are predicted to be most vulnerable to the effects of climate change as they are often located in areas more exposed to risks associated with extreme weather events. Building climate resilience into small farms requires a vibrant innovation ecosystem in which farmers’ needs are communicated to researchers, discoveries are translated to demand-driven products, and farmers are incentivized to adopt new technologies and practices to build environmentally and economically sustainable farms. The CROPS project confronts entrenched sources of social, economic, and racial inequity by igniting the full potential of an innovation corridor to meet the needs of small- and mid-sized farms, especially underserved farmers, in the face of climate change. The overall goal is to develop an overarching CROPS ecosystem that seeds more equitable and needs-centric knowledge sharing, technology development, and creation of incentives to de-risk adoption among farmers, universities, industry, and stakeholder communities. In this Development phase, CROPS builds a strong organizational infrastructure that promotes and sustains this ecosystems’ growth and maturity. CROPS prioritizes diversity within our multifaceted stakeholder ecosystem – farmers, researchers, policy makers, funders, and industry. CROPS focuses on key nodes of systemic connectivity between underserved farmers, consortium research partners, and education-focused academic and extension agents who are dedicated to preparing a future ready workforce, while addressing climate, technological, economic, and societal challenges faced by NC farmers.Although the major NC metropolitan regions of the Research Triangle Park (RTP) and the Piedmont Triad (PT) have promoted technological innovation and economic opportunity, there has been insufficient economic impact in the underserved rural counties of Eastern and Central NC whose focus on agriculture. This award mechanism better positions the RTP and PT regions to cultivate and bolster interdisciplinary, multi-organizational teams of researchers, industry, entrepreneurial, and non-profit partners, and other stakeholders to work collaboratively with underserved farmers, small business owners, and landholders. The lead institution of this engine is North Carolina A&T State University, the largest HBCU in the nation, which has a long history of working with a diverse group of farmers to improve their success through its extension network. Core CROPS partners also include Alamance Community College, Duke University, East Carolina University, NC Biotechnology Center, NC State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, RTI International, and Wake Forest University. The proposed 42-county NC Agricultural Tech Innovation Corridor mobilizes innovative research, accelerates product commercialization, and trains the workforce needed to sustain the ecosystem. This Development Award will enable the team to engage in a regional, collaborative planning process to prepare a future Engine to meet these goals, mobilizing partnerships and resources to drive economic development and prosperity within NC’s rural agricultural economies along the NC Ag Tech Corridor.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.

该区域创新引擎开发奖旨在建立一个创新生态系统，该生态系统为北卡罗来纳州（NC）的农业社区建立气候韧性。预计该州服务不足的小农场最容易受到气候变化的影响，因为它们通常位于更容易受到与极端天气事件相关的风险的地区。将气候弹性建立到小农场需要一个充满活力的创新生态系统，其中将农民的需求传达给研究人员，发现被转化为需求驱动的产品，并激励农民采用新的技术和实践来建立环境和经济可持续的农场。农作物项目面临着根深蒂固的社会，经济和种族不平等来源，即在面对气候变化的情况下，点燃了创新走廊的全部潜力，以满足中小型农场，尤其是服务不足的农场的需求。总体目标是开发一个总体农作物生态系统，该生态系统更公平，以需求为中心的知识共享，技术开发以及创造激励措施，以降低农民，大学，工业和利益相关者社区的降低风险采用。在这个发展阶段，农作物建立了强大的组织基础设施，该基础设施促进和维持了该生态系统的增长和成熟度。农作物优先考虑我们的多方面利益相关者生态系统中的多样性 - 农民，研究人员，政策制定者，资金和行业。农作物专注于服务不足的农民，财团研究伙伴以及以教育为重点的学术和推广人员之间的全身连通性节点，他们致力于准备未来的现成劳动力，同时应对NC Farmers面临的气候，技术，经济和社会挑战。技术创新和经济机会，东部和中部北卡罗来纳州的农村县的经济影响不足，他们的关注对农业的关注。这种奖励机制可以更好地定位RTP和PT地区，以培养和鲍尔跨学科，多组织，工业，企业家和非营利性合作伙伴以及其他利益相关者以及其他利益相关者，以与服务不足的农民，小型企业所有者，小型企业所有者和陆地持有人合作。该发动机的主要机构是北卡罗来纳州A＆T州立大学，该大学是美国最大的HBCU，它与潜水者群体合作的历史悠久，可以通过其扩展网络改善他们的成功。核心作物合作伙伴还包括北卡罗来纳大学北卡罗来纳大学北卡罗来纳大学北卡罗来纳大学北卡罗来纳大学的阿拉曼斯社区学院，北卡罗来纳大学，北卡罗来纳大学，北卡罗来纳大学，国际北卡罗莱纳大学，北卡罗来纳大学。提出的42县NC农业技术创新走廊动员了创新研究，加速产品商业化并培训维持生态系统所需的劳动力。 This Development Award will enable the team to engage in a regional, collaborative planning process to prepare a future Engine to meet these goals, mobilizing partnerships and resources to drive economic development and prosperity within NC’s roughly agronomic economy along the NC Ag Tech Corridor.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed precious of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.