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A collaborative international \u201cnetwork of networks\u201d aims to explore agricultural and climate resilience and food and water security as never before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nebraska ecologists Craig Allen and Tala Awada head a team that received a four-year, $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the Network for Integrated Agricultural Resilience Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The network will generate research questions and share data, resources and expertise so affiliated researchers can more comprehensively examine the diversity, complexity and resilience of farming and agriculture in North America at a larger scale than previously possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost ecological research is done on a square-meter spatial scale and a two- to three-year temporal scale. We want to do research on a much larger scale,\u201d said Allen, professor of natural resources and director of Nebraska\u2019s Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes, or CRAWL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The network includes the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Agricultural Research Service-funded Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Network; the Canada-based ResNet and the Agriculture Canada Living Labs Initiative; and the international, theory-focused Resilience Alliance. Additional funding from the university allowed Allen and Awada to expand the network to include partners in Mexico, ensuring it spans North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Craig Allen and Tala Awada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Such collaboration is key to pursuing global food security, Allen said. Working together, the networks may be able to identify tipping points at which agricultural systems are vulnerable to unwanted, destabilizing changes \u2013 the transformation of a grassland into a forest, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOften, there\u2019s a trade-off between efficiency and resilience,\u201d said Allen, the network\u2019s coordinator. \u201cWe\u2019re interested in what that tradeoff is, and what those tradeoffs cost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nebraska\u2019s leadership of the new network underscores the university\u2019s long-standing commitment to research on climate resilience and sustainable food and water security, two of the university\u2019s seven Grand Challenge thematic areas. It also highlights the university\u2019s global leadership in agricultural resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur diverse landowners and managers are interested in multiple outcomes on their land, and the involved networks will look beyond efficiency and profitability to include sustainability and resilience metrics and indicators across scales,\u201d said Awada, associate dean and director of Nebraska\u2019s Agricultural Research Division and professor of plant ecophysiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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