Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Co-Creating Sustainable Transformations of Food Supply Chains through Cooperative Business Models and Governance

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：通过合作商业模式和治理共同创造食品供应链的可持续转型

• 批准号: 2321087
• 负责人: Ashley Colby
• 金额: $ 33万
• 依托单位: GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321087&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; Co

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The teams will develop and employ new transdisciplinary approaches to address sustainable consumption and production as a socio-technical system to help inform decision-making for sustainable, resilient, and just systems of consumption and production.The project focuses on transdisciplinary research approaches engaging local stakeholders on how to innovate, convert, and strengthen food supply chains in different socio-cultural-political contexts across 6 countries. Conventional, globalized food supply chains are vulnerable to many factors such as climate change, pandemics, political unrest, food insecurity, high food prices, injustices against workers, and dependence on trade partners violating human rights. Various efforts have been undertaken to transform food supply chains towards sustainability by reducing transport, paying fair prices, adding value in the region of origin, adopting worker safety standards, and increasing accountability along the supply chain from production to consumption. Cooperative business models, such as worker or consumer cooperatives, as well as cooperative governance such as food policy councils or community-supported agriculture adopt many of these sustainable practices. Yet, there is little empirical, comparative research on how to implement sustainable food supply chains through cooperative models. The project will explore entire supply chains, and the case studies will be used to focus on specific supply chain issues addressed, the phase of the supply chain open for the transformation, the range of food products, and the governance elements from the supporting entrepreneurial ecosystem. The case studies will employ a theoretical framework that links sustainability transformation, short supply chains, and alternative food networks, while using a research methodology that combines sustainability assessment, visioning, strategy building, real-world experimentation, and evaluation methods, in transdisciplinary collaboration with supply-chain and governance actors. Results from this project will provide guidance and inspiration to researchers and practitioners on how food supply chains can be successfully transformed towards sustainability.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.

该奖项为参加一个由55个国家通过Belmont论坛进行全球变更研究的计划竞争性选择的项目提供了支持。 Belmont论坛是一个研究资助组织的财团，专注于支持全球环境变化挑战和机遇的跨学科方法。 它的目的是加快迫切需要的国际研究的交付，以通过结盟和动员国际资源来消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个合作伙伴国家为财团内的研究人员提供资金，以减轻资金越过国际边界的需求。这种方法促进了国家资源的有效利用，以支持通过跨国方法解决全球相关性主题的出色研究，并认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。该奖项为美国研究人员提供了支持，以在财团中合作，该公司由至少三个参与国家的合作伙伴组成。 The teams will develop and employ new transdisciplinary approaches to address sustainable consumption and production as a socio-technical system to help inform decision-making for sustainable, resilient, and just systems of consumption and production.The project focuses on transdisciplinary research approaches engaging local stakeholders on how to innovate, convert, and strengthen food supply chains in different socio-cultural-political contexts across 6 countries. 常规的全球化粮食供应连锁店容易受到许多因素，例如气候变化，大流行，政治动荡，粮食不安全感，高食品价格，对工人的不公正现象以及对侵犯人权的贸易伙伴的依赖。已经采取了各种努力，通过降低运输，支付公平的价格，增加原产地价值，采用工人安全标准，并提高供应链的问责链，从生产到消费，采取了各种努力，以将食品供应链转向可持续性。合作商业模式，例如工人或消费者合作社，以及食品政策委员会或社区支持的农业等合作治理，采用了许多可持续的实践。然而，关于如何通过合作模型实施可持续粮食供应链的经验，比较研究很少。 该项目将探索整个供应链，案例研究将用于关注所解决的特定供应链问题，转型范围的供应链阶段，食品的范围以及支持企业家生态系统的治理元素。案例研究将采用一个理论框架，该框架将可持续性转型，短供应链和替代食品网络联系起来，同时使用将可持续性评估，远见，策略构建，现实世界实验和评估方法结合起来的研究方法，以及与供应宗和省省级参与者的跨学科合作。该项目的结果将为研究人员和从业人员提供指导和灵感，以如何成功地转化为可持续性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估标准的评估值得支持的。