WEBINAR: Food Systems Dashboard: A Decision-making Tool for Better Food Governance Decisions

17 September 2020. Food Systems Dashboard: A Decision-making Tool for Better Food Governance Decisions. 

The Johns Hopkins University, The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and other partners recently launched a new easy-to-navigate online Food Systems Dashboard designed to help decision-makers and other users around the world understand their food systems, identify their levers of change, and decide which ones to pull in order to sustainably improve diets and nutrition in their food systems.

Food systems encompass an entire range of actors – including, but not limited to, farmers, traders, processors, wholesalers, distributors, retailers, and consumers – and the processes that get food from the fields to markets to tables. Well-functioning food systems can ensure the availability, accessibility, and affordability of nutritious foods for healthy diets.

The Food Systems Dashboard combines data of more than 170 food systems indicators from over 35 from public and private data sources of more than 230 countries and territories that describe global, regional, and national food systems. The data is organized using the conceptual framework developed by the High-Level Panel of the U.N. Committee on Food Security in 2017 to help decision-makers diagnose their food systems and identify all their levers of change and the ones that need to be pulled first.

Presenter Resources
The Food Systems Dashboard: What is it? & What is it good for? - Part1
The Food Systems Dashboard: What is it? & What is it good for? - Part2
This webinar demonstrated the Food Dashboard that helps decision makers and others around the world understand their food systems.

• Opening remarks: Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Global Director, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The World Bank Group
• Dr. Lawrence Haddad - Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
• Jessica Fanzo, Ph.D.; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food & Agricultural Policy and Ethics, John Hopkins University

Discussants: 

• Dr. Madhur Gautam, Lead Agriculture Economist, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The World Bank Group
• Dr. Geeta Sethi, Advisor and Global Lead for Food Systems, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The World Bank Group