A1. To create a transdisciplinary network that enhances collaboration between agrifood stakeholder communities and diverse academic research disciplines to deliver network-wide activities that improve the understanding of AMR challenges in UK agrifood systems. Amongst the UK research community, AMAST will take a broad view of research disciplines that can collectively increase the capacity and capability to generate and answer priority questions on AMR in UK agrifood systems, including across production systems, such as crop, livestock and aquaculture production and their contextual environments, and considering impacts from production through to impacts in consumers.
A2. To harness key stakeholder perspectives into the problem-framing of AMR agrifood threats and opportunities during AMAST engagement exercises designed to capture, co-produce and share new and existing knowledge within the network. This collective understanding will allow the AMAST collaboration to identify and prioritise areas of opportunity and areas of need for research that can inform new pathways to positively impact AMR.
A3. To prepare for prioritised AMR challenges in UK agrifood systems by increasing understanding of these systems, developing informative metrics to quantitatively describe components of these systems, strengthening partnerships, and developing opportunities and a critical mass to solve AMR problems within new transdisciplinary teams, particularly those involving ECRs and disciplines that may not previously have engaged with AMR as a challenge. The AMAST collaboration will propose new systems-level transdisciplinary research and partnership frameworks and will use communication strategies to share these and other creative multimedia outputs broadly and publicly to support awareness and capacity development.
