Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
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Food systems risk concerns whether people can reliably obtain safe and nutritious food, from soils, water and inputs through production, storage, trade and markets to household access.
The model
From a hot season to a food price: how heat above a threshold becomes a yield loss, and a yield loss a market shock
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From a hot season to a food price: how heat above a threshold becomes a yield loss, and a yield loss a market shock
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
Courses in development extend the scope to further subjects: Food safety and foodborne hazards; Food, nutrition and health risk.
For agronomists, food security analysts, humanitarian planners, commodity and insurance professionals who need to read a yield forecast, a price series or an IPC phase map and judge what it can bear.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
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Food systems and agriculture's own model, as a live chart: move each parameter and read how the outputs respond.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow food systems and agriculture on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
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Select corners to build a signature, then hover a line to read what each sector gives and receives.
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Food and its partners
Food gives nutrition to health (0.7), land conversion to biodiversity (0.6) and withdrawals and runoff to water (0.3).
W · E · I · F · H · B
The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
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Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Food systems and agriculture.
Search termsFood systems and agriculture; Agricultural production and yield risk; Food security and access; Food security classification and analysis; Food prices, trade and markets; Storage, processing and cold chainsDerived from the Risk Academy page on Food systems and agriculture.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Food systems and agriculture, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
Recent developments in food systems and agriculture, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Courses with this as their primary discipline.
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Trigger lab | Set forecast thresholds, pre-agreed actions and messages | 4 |
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 4 |
| Exposure lab | Overlay people and assets with hazard footprints | 2 |
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 1 |
| Aspect | In this area |
|---|---|
| Technology that helps | Earth observation crop monitoring, precision agriculture and agricultural biotechnology. |
| Risk technology creates | Concentrated agri-tech platforms, dependence on satellite positioning, and the oversight of gene drives. |
Start with Sen, then IPC Global Partners, then Maxwell.
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