Food Systems Dashboard
The Food Systems Dashboard combines data from multiple sources to give users a complete view of food systems. Users can compare components of food systems across countries and regions. They can also identify and prioritize ways to sustainably improve diets and nutrition in their food systems. The Dashboard contains over 250 indicators that measure components, drivers, and outcomes of food systems at the country level. Most data for the Dashboard is open source and available to download directly from the website. Data are pooled from FAO, Euromonitor International, World Bank, and other global and regional sources. The dashboard can be used by anyone interested in or involved in food systems.
Food systems countdown to 2030 initiative
The Food Systems Countdown Initiative is working to build a science-based observational system using a food systems framework to track global food systems and their changes to 2030. Deliberately changing complex systems that cut across sectors, jurisdictions, and national borders call for a comprehensive, ongoing program of scientific measurement and assessment of all aspects of the system and their interactions to guide decision-makers and hold those in power to account for transformation. Food system actors and stakeholders (e.g., civil society, governments, and international organizations) need actionable evidence to make decisions that can bring about food system transformation, yet no such mechanism currently exists. The Food Systems Countdown Initiative will produce annual publications to measure, assess, and track the performance of global food systems toward 2030 and the conclusion of the Sustainable Development Goals.
food flows
Food Flows is a research project that seeks to build and contribute to an evidence base that informs action on alleviating food insecurity and building environmentally sustainable food environments of vulnerable populations. Achieving the dual goals of human health and planetary well-being will require a major transformation of agricultural systems and dietary patterns. Beyond just merely producing food for everyone, for food systems to be functioning in a not only efficient but equitable way, they need to be able to support sustainable and healthy diets for the world’s population. Food Flows centers rivers and, specifically, riparian communities and their reliance on these bodies of water as livelihoods, food, and food environments themselves. The collaborative research incorporates multi-disciplinary methods to understand and characterize individual factors and food environments that shape these communities' food choices and diets.
Improving climate services for nutrition practitioners
Climate-related extreme events are increasing food & water insecurities, leading to malnutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases. Public health and nutrition practitioners need access to climate services (information, tools, and training) to tackle the complex health challenges of climate disruption. The use of climate information and services by the nutrition community to inform the targeting and delivery of these actions has been extremely limited. Our multi-disciplinary team is partnering with communities to customize climate services to ensure that resource-constrained nutrition and health programs and practitioners are equipped to improve nutrition resilience of climate-vulnerable communities. Work is taking place in Ethiopia and Indonesia.