nexustandards.com/water-food · 2 taught
Pergalên Av û Xwarinê
NRS-M14 Food, agriculture and fisheries; NRS-N3 Food and agriculture risk and resilience
Illustrative: rain routed down a catchment to the flood plain, generated, with the intensity of a scenario rising and falling
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Earth and Environmental Sciences · Department of Water and Food Systems
Taught in the Nexus, Systems and Technical streams
Xwarin pergalên 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.
Courses in development extend the scope to further subjects: Food safety and foodborne hazards; Food, nutrition and health risk.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow food pergalên and agriculture on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
The boundaries, names and designations shown do not imply any judgement on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Countries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Crop greenness, root-zone soil water, rain, heat, fire and flood, the conditions behind harvests, over Australia.
Nexşeya înteraktîf JavaScript hewce dike; lîsteya qatan û çavkanî li jêr in.
Qat 2
Growing conditions
Klavye, dema ku nexşe di fokusê de ye
Ctrl an ⌘ bigire û bizivirîne da ku nêzîk bikî
Ya herî dawî ya heyî
NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth
Wêneyên herî nû yên NASA tê barkirin.
Bikişîne da ku bilivîne. Ctrl an ⌘ û zivirandin, pincandin an bişkojkan ji bo nêzîkkirinê; ji bo nirxên di bin nîşanderê de li ser bisekine; vegerandin vedigere herêmê.
Growing conditions, framed on Australia.Berhemên peyk û modelê wekî NASA diweşîne, her yek bi dîroka xwe. Nîşander in, ne nirxandinên tu cihî ne.
Qat û dîrok
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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Days of heat above a crop’s threshold cut yield at a rate the field record measures; yield times area gives production; the shortfall meets a market whose demand barely bends, so a small production loss becomes a large price rise, and the price decides who eats.
Sources: Schlenker and Roberts, Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to U.S. crop yields under climate change (2009); Headey and Fan, Anatomy of a crisis: the causes and consequences of surging food prices (2008); Sen, Ingredients of famine analysis: availability and entitlements (1981); Maxwell and Fitzpatrick, The 2011 Somalia famine: context, causes, and complications (2012); Lesk, Rowhani and Ramankutty, Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production (2016).
Select corners to build a signature, then hover a line to read what each sector gives and receives.
Îmze
Xwarin û hevkarên wê
Xwarin dide tenduristiyê xwarinê (0.7), veguherîna axê dide cûrbecûrbûna jîndaran (0.6) û kişandin û herikîna avê dide avê (0.3).
W · E · I · F · H · B
Ew Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
nexustandards.com/water-food · 2 taught
NRS-M14 Food, agriculture and fisheries; NRS-N3 Food and agriculture risk and resilience
nexustandards.com/health · 2 taught
NRS-H44 Plant disease and pests; NRS-H81 Malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency
nexustandards.com/energy-infrastructure · 1 taught
NRS-H90 Food system infrastructure failure
nexustandards.com/hazards · 1 taught
NRS-H10 Water deficit
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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 |
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| 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. |
Foundry system pages describe what each system and its rooms are designed to do; the courses teach the methods these systems apply.
Ji kî bûna xwe dest pê bike.
Start with Sen, then IPC Global Partners, then Maxwell.
Têgehên sereke
A situation in which all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food, assessed through availability, access, utilisation and stability.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale that groups areas or households by the severity of food insecurity.
The difference between the yield farmers achieve and the yield attainable with the best available practice.
The extent to which price changes in one market pass to other markets or along the supply chain.
Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
The catalogue lists each course with its outcomes, laboratuwarên, hours and level.