When understanding drivers of food systems becomes a planetary priority
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Helping policy-makers steer our food systems towards a more sustainable future, requires identifying critical entry points for investments and interventions.
Helping policy-makers steer our food systems towards a more sustainable future, requires identifying critical entry points for investments and interventions.
To achieve that, a team of researchers from CIAT is trying to answer two interconnected questions.
- What is driving the rapid changes in the current food systems worldwide?
- What combination of indicators best capture the different dimensions of a ‘healthy’ food system?
By combining indicators, using global datasets, the team is building a global map of key ‘food system drivers’. Reflecting different dimensions of sustainability, CIAT was able to construct a global map with data for more than 100 countries.
By overlaying the driver and the sustainability maps, they hope determine whether the levels of global food system sustainability can be explained by particular trends or rapid changes in specific drivers.
