Cybersas: cybergis for sustainable food and agricultural systems

• Grant number: 15/50535-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2016
• End date: May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - Agrarian and Natural Resource Economics
• Agreement: University of Illinois
• Mobility Program: SPRINT - Projetos de pesquisa - Mobilidade
• Principal Investigator: José Vicente Caixeta Filho
• Grantee: José Vicente Caixeta Filho
• Principal researcher abroad: Luis Felipe Rodriguez
• Institution abroad: University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 15/22097-1 - DEVELOPMENT OF AN "INFORMATION SYSTEM OF POSTHARVEST LOSSES IN AGRICULTURE OF SÃO PAULO STATE": CONTRIBUTIONS TO FOOD SECURITY, AP.R

Abstract

The sustainability of the future is everyone's concern, but achieving sustainable systems is many parts of society is confounded with the dissonance between policy and regulation enacted at the national and international scale, solutions that are applied at the local-scale, and interpretation of each of these occuring again at national and internacional scales. To reduce, or eliminate, this dissonance we seek to create CyberSAS: a collaborative cyber-framework for modeling and analysis and decision support. Problems in food and agricultural systems provide an feal opportunity for testing such a scientific framework given their complex spatiotemporal distribution, inherent uncertainly and risk, and deeply coupled human-environmental interactions. With the current proposal, we seek to leverage existing and pending research grants to enhance the development of the CyberSAS. Furthermore, we seek to competitively position our team for follow-up grants enabling internacional collaboration in the both research and education. To date, investigators of Illinois and ESALQ have a successfull colaboration in the investigation of food security, previously funded by de ADM Institute for Prevention of Postharvest Losses, we believe that new opportunities will be available in the near future to expand our collaboration to also consider energy and water related issues. (AU)