Food trade and how to build supply chain resilience amidst climate shocks.

12 December 2023. 
Let's talk about food trade and how to build supply chain resilience amidst climate
shocks.

Recording forthcoming

organized by the Food and Climate Systems Transformation (FACT) Alliance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, in cooperation with CIFOR-ICRAF.

Organized by the Food and Climate Systems Transformation (FACT) Alliance, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) - in cooperation with CIFOR-ICRAF.

• Kenneth Strzepek (MIT),
• Lucie Smith (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
• Lydia Kimani Agribusiness for African Markets
• Cedric Pene World Trade Organisation WTO
• Hosts: Michael Hauser (BOKU/CIFOR-ICRAF) and Greg Sixt (MIT)

Resource: The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability

• Supported by Community Jameel, this project will study the implications of climate change on food security and how they relate to trade.
• A main outcome of the research will be a model to project global food demand, supply balance, and bilateral trade under different likely future scenarios, with a focus on climate change. The work will help guide policymakers over the next 25 years while the global population is expected to grow and the climate crisis is predicted to worsen.
• This work is the foundational project for the Food and Climate Systems Transformation (FACT) Alliance which is led by the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT. Phase one of the project will support a collaboration between four FACT Alliance members: MIT J-WAFS, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI, which is also part of the CGIAR network), and the Martin School at the University of Oxford. An external partner, United Arab Emirates University, will also assist with the project work.