GCRI · Platform
Food Nexus
Food-system security and resilience from land and production through supply chains, nutrition and access. Food Nexus is an established platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation.
On the map below
- Greenness (NDVI)
- MODIS Terra NDVI13 Oct 2026
- Soil moisture, root zone
- SMAP Level 411 Oct 2026
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Crop condition
Soil water and rain
Heat, fire and flood
Land cover
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NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Natural Earth
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Crop greenness and growth, root-zone soil water, rain, heat, burning, floods, cropland and long-term water risk to farming, each dated.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them; indicators of growing conditions, not yield, production or food security assessments.
Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Natural EarthSources and licences
- We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- SMAP Level 4 soil moisture and snow mass, NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office; distributed by the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- GPM IMERG precipitation, NASA Precipitation Processing System; distributed by the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), VIIRS 375 m active fire product, NASA LANCE; vector tiles via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- Kuzma, S., et al. 2023. Aqueduct 4.0: Updated decision-relevant global water risk indicators. World Resources Institute. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0
- ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). Cite as: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (2019). ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003. doi:10.5067/ASTER/ASTGTM.003. NASA open data
- Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
- Hexagon cells: Uber hexagonal (h3-js, Apache-2.0), computed at build time.
Layers and dates
- Vegetation greenness (NDVI), rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra NDVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
- Gross primary production, 8-day total: MODIS Aqua GPP (MYD17), NASA LP DAAC · 30 Sep 2026
- Root-zone soil moisture, 0 to 100 cm: SMAP Level 4, NASA NSIDC DAAC · 11 Oct 2026
- Precipitation rate, daily mean: GPM IMERG, NASA GES DISC · 12 Oct 2026
- Land surface temperature, day: VIIRS NOAA-20, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
- Active fires and thermal anomalies: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026
- Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
- Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
- Overall water risk, agriculture weighting (1979–2019 baseline): Water risk: WRI Aqueduct 4.0 (2023), World Resources Institute, CC BY 4.0; summarised to hexagons by GCRI · 5 Jul 2023
How work moves in this field.
A question becomes evidence, a governed build, an organised community, a controlled test, a reviewed publication and, finally, a decision taken by the competent authority under its own rules.
- Question Universe National, regional or institutional priority. Question in Food Nexus
- Evidence Foundry STEM foundation of the platform. Evidence in Food Nexus
- Build Foundry Foundry. Build in Food Nexus
- Organise Universe Nexus ecosystem. Organise in Food Nexus
- Test Universe Universe (independent site). Test in Food Nexus
- Publish Reports Reports. Publish in Food Nexus
- Decide Competent authority Competent authorities and institutions, through NXS-RLS (participants, agreements and handoffs). Decide in Food Nexus
- Renew Universe Corrections and the next annual agenda. Renew in Food Nexus
Each step of the cycle in the pillar it runs in; the decision stays with the competent authority, outside the programme.
- Labs
- Foundry
- Universe
- Nexus Standards
- Reports
- Risk Academy
- Competent authority (outside the programme)
Model Food Nexus as a system. Run the cascade.
Assembled from the Nexus Standards area profile Food security and nutrition risk: the hazards it names, the systems and sectors that carry the loss, the controls that dampen it and the data that observe it. Choose the components, pick an initiating hazard and step through the cascade. The Map view places the run on an example geography with open data. Every coupling weight is a stated assumption you can change. A teaching model, not a forecast, an assessment or a certification. To model a place of your own choosing, open the full System Builder.
Hazards
- Famine
- Mass displacement (set off downstream)
- Health-system overload (set off downstream)
- Chronic malnutrition (set off downstream)
- Acute malnutrition surge (set off downstream)
Systems and couplings
Controls
NS-0Constitution and principlesNS-3Risk record UNIs (grammar, legacy crosswalk, allocation authority)NS-9Contextual UNIs (deployments, instances, programme instances)NS-10Policies and clauses (machine-readable obligations: definition, binding, evaluation and enforcement)NS-11Verification and monitoring (evidence, attestations, zero-trust conformance observation)NRS-H57Hazard family: Humanitarian crises (NHS-1 soc.humanitarian)NRS-H61Hazard family: Cascading failure (NHS-1 sys.cascade)NRS-H81Hazard family: Malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency (NHS-1 health.nutrition)NRS-H59Hazard family: Economic shocks and governance failure (NHS-1 soc.economic)NRS-N3Food and agriculture risk and resilienceNRS-N7Water-energy-food-health-biodiversity-infrastructure nexus coupling
Observation
- IPC acute food insecurity analyses (listed for reference)
- FEWS NET outlooks and data (listed for reference)
- FAO GIEWS Food Price Monitoring and Analysis tool (listed for reference)
- CHIRPS quasi-global gridded precipitation (listed for reference)
- Prevalence of undernourishment
- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity
- Prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years of age
- Prevalence of malnutrition among children under 5 years of age
Example geography
- The Ganges and Brahmaputra Basin: 178 hexagonal cells
- Surface soil moisture (SMAP), NASA GIBS
- Night lights tonight, outages (VIIRS Day/Night Band), NASA GIBS
- Surface water through cloud, 30 m (OPERA DSWx-S1 radar), NASA GIBS
- Rain rate, last half hour (IMERG), NASA GIBS
The questions this field works on.
Agricultural production
Crop, livestock and aquaculture production systems.
TopicFood security and access
Availability, affordability and nutrition.
TopicSoil and land
Soil health, land degradation and productivity.
TopicFood, water and energy
Water and energy demand in production.
TopicStorage and cold chain
Refrigeration, logistics and food safety.
TopicAgritech and innovation
Precision agriculture, biotechnology and technology safeguards.
TopicFood trade and markets
Import concentration, prices and trade routes.
TopicFood system shocks
Disease, drought, conflict and supply disruption.
The sector signature of Food Nexus.
The sectors Food Nexus touches and how strongly they depend on each other: what a study has to observe and model together.
Signature
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
- Sectors
- 4 of 6
- Relations
- 6 of 15
- Coupling
- 0.46 share of total
Strongest relations in play
- Food → Biodiversity · land conversion0.6
- Water → Food · irrigation0.8
- Water → Biodiversity · environmental flows0.6
- Food → Health · nutrition0.7
The areas of food and agriculture this platform takes on.
Food Nexus studies food systems as chains of dependency: the soils, water, energy and inputs that set production; the storage, logistics and trade that move food; and the prices, incomes and diets that decide whether people can eat well. Its pages set out the science, the data, the methods and the decisions for each link, and show how a shock at one link travels to the others. Every indicator is named with its unit and evidence label, never with a value.
Agricultural production
Crops, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture, the gaps between potential and actual yields, and the weather, pests and inputs that move output from season to season.
Soil and land
Soil health, erosion, salinisation and land degradation, and the land-use change and tenure arrangements that decide how productive land stays.
Water and energy for food
Irrigation, pumping, fertiliser manufacture, processing and cooling as demands on water and power that rise together under heat and drought.
Food security and nutrition
Availability, access, utilisation and stability, measured from household experience, diets and prices up to national and global supply balances.
Trade and markets
Import dependence, exporter concentration, chokepoints, price transmission and the trade policies that widen or damp a shock.
Storage, cold chain and safety
Post-harvest storage, refrigeration, transport and food safety controls that decide how much harvested food reaches people, and in what condition.
Agritech and innovation
Precision agriculture, breeding, biotechnology and digital services, and the biosafety, data and access safeguards that govern them.
Shocks and cascades
Drought, flood, pests, animal disease, conflict and supply disruption, and how each propagates across production, trade, prices and access.
How Food Nexus is modelled, measured and tested.
The model, its assumptions, its data and its uncertainty, in the form a scientist or engineer would check. Structures follow published methods. The values drawn are illustrative, not findings.
System model
The couplings between the systems in Food Nexus: signs of influence, a reinforcing and a balancing loop, and cross-links where stress jumps.
Uncertainty bands
How far the outlook for Food Nexus could spread, shown as ranges rather than a single line.
- Central estimate
- median of the ensemble
- Ranges
- likely and very likely, in IPCC calibrated language
- Ensemble
- members, scenarios and initial conditions stated
- Read with
- the sensitivity of the result to each input
What Food Nexus does.
Food system risk is the chance that a shock at one link of the food system, from soil and water to trade, storage and household incomes, leaves people without enough safe and nutritious food. Food Nexus follows each link: production, soil and land, water and energy, storage and cold chain, markets, innovation and shocks, naming the indicators, open data and methods for each and the authorities that act.
Its community
Agricultural scientists; farmers; food processors; nutrition specialists; logistics experts.
Its methods
Crop and climate analysis; supply-dependency mapping; food-access indicators.
Its outputs
Food-system vulnerability briefs; agrifood dependency maps; resilience methods.
What Food Nexus does, and what stays with food authorities.
Food Nexus studies food systems as chains of dependency and helps countries build the evidence and capability to see where those chains break. It forecasts no prices, classifies no food crisis, declares no famine and advises no trader; the IPC analysis teams, ministries of agriculture, statistics offices, food safety authorities and humanitarian agencies hold those roles. It funds and approves no projects.
Figures on these pages are illustrations of how evidence would be shown, never an assessment of a country or a season. Readiness to act on evidence is not authority to act. National food agendas, data and decisions stay national, and household data is never published.
Where food couples to the other domains, and where findings are designed to go.
| Coupling | Where it is examined | Series designed to carry it |
|---|---|---|
| Food, water and energy: irrigation, fertiliser, cold chains | Food, water and energy | Scenario and Stress-Test |
| Food and health: nutrition, food safety, zoonoses | Food security and access with Health Nexus | Country Systems Risk and Resilience |
| Food and nature: pollination, soils, land conversion | Soil and land with Biodiversity Nexus | Global Systems Risk and Resilience |
| Food and trade: exporter concentration, chokepoints | Food trade and markets | Strategic Systems |
Yield, price and nutrition series are designed to carry The Global Risks Index (NXS-GRX) record identifiers under the proposed Nexus Standards, with the statistics office or survey named as owner.
What agronomists, market analysts and communities can add.
- Field data: crop-cut, trial and market price records with dates and places.
- Cases: food shocks documented from first cause to household effect.
- Methods: crop model evaluations and price transmission studies, including null results.
- Corrections: through corrections, without membership.
Food systems fail through chains, not single events.
A food system is a chain of biological, physical and economic processes. Each link has its own exposure, and a shock at one link travels to the others through stocks, prices and logistics.
Production starts in soil and water. Crop yields depend on temperature, rainfall timing, soil organic matter, nutrients, pests and the crop variety in the ground. Livestock and aquaculture depend on feed, water quality, animal health and heat. A drought during flowering, a new strain of plant disease or an outbreak in livestock can remove a large part of a harvest in one season, and degraded soils take years to recover.
After the farm gate, food moves through aggregation, processing, storage, transport and retail. These stages rely on energy, refrigeration, packaging, finance and labour. Many countries meet a large share of their staple needs through imports that pass through a few ports, straits and exporting regions, so a disruption far away becomes a price rise at home.
Households then meet food through income and markets. When prices rise faster than wages, people buy less nutritious food, sell productive assets or skip meals, and the effects on child growth and health last long after the shock. This is why food crises tend to be crises of access and affordability as much as of supply, and why failures cascade: a harvest shortfall, an export restriction, a fuel price spike and a currency fall can reinforce one another.
Evidence for the people who keep food moving.
Food Nexus turns agricultural, climate, trade and nutrition evidence into material that public institutions, producers and researchers can use and check.
Crop and climate analysis
Seasonal and long-run assessment of production exposure, using observation, field data and models, with stated uncertainty.
Supply-dependency maps
Where a country’s staples, inputs and feed come from, which routes they use and where concentration creates exposure.
Food-access indicators
Measures of availability, affordability and diet quality that show who is exposed when supply or prices move.
The platform is designed for agricultural scientists, farmers and producer organisations, food processors, nutrition specialists, logistics experts and the public institutions that plan food security. GCRI does not regulate, certify or approve; its findings carry their methods and uncertainty.
Built on shared science, read by governance and finance.
Food Nexus stewards the method page for agricultural, soil and food science and applies nine further methods held across the Consortium, including Earth observation and remote sensing, hydrology and water science, forecasting and time-series analysis, econometrics and optimisation and operations research. Each is listed on the platform STEM foundation.
Its work feeds the Foundry systems for NXS-EOP (earth observation and digital twins), NXS-GRX, NXS-DSS (decision cases and deliberation) and NXS-AAP (anticipatory action and triggers), and the report series Global Sector Risk and Resilience, Country Systems Risk and Resilience and Evidence Brief.
The same field is governed and financed elsewhere in the Consortium. At The Global Risks Forum (GRF), Climate and Nature Governance and the Diplomacy Nexus convene the institutions that decide on land, climate and trade. At The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), Insurance Nexus, Climate and Nature Financial Risk and Reinsurance and Catastrophe build shared industry understanding of agricultural and climate risk, without advising on or arranging any transaction. All counterparts are listed on counterparts across the Consortium.
Built on named science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Every claim on Food Nexus rests on methods with a canonical page in the STEM Commons, so readers can see what a finding depends on and where its limits lie.
How this works across the six pillars.
Food Nexus works through six pillars of one annual programme, led by the Nexus Consortium, with GCRI, GRF and GRA each contributing in its role: explore, experiment and prototype in Labs, build, simulate and prepare in Foundry, convene and test in Universe, codify, correct and apply in Nexus Standards, publish in every format in Reports, teach in the open in Risk Academy.
handoff in playrecorded handoffno direct handoff
Programme yearAll phases
Route
The whole programme
Every pillar hands its work to another; together they close the year’s feedback loops.
L · F · U · S · R · A
- Pillars
- 6 of 6
- Handoffs
- 18 of 18
- Loops
- 17 closed
Handoffs in play
- F01Universe → Foundry · Admitted mission becomes a cycle project with a decision caseReadiness preparation
- F02Foundry → Universe · Core Build Report and go or no-go evidenceControlled build
- F03Foundry → Reports · Sealed observations and indicator series behind a profileCloseout
- F04Universe → Reports · After-action and scenario findings for chapters 10 and 13After-action review
and 14 more
- LabsWhere questions become experiments and prototypes: new methods, data and tools are tried in the open, with their limits on record, before the Foundry builds them, under the Nexus Consortium.Labs
- FoundryWhere methods, data and models become reproducible builds, each run with its inputs, version and limits on record.Food Nexus in FoundryFoundry
- UniverseWhere a build is tested under controlled conditions with independent evaluators, so a method’s skill is measured, not assumed.Food Nexus in Universeuniverse.nexus
- Nexus StandardsWhere methods, identifiers and data schemas are codified in the open and corrected when a test finds a fault.Water and Food Systems in Standardsnexustandards.com
- ReportsWhere findings are published with their method, uncertainty and evidence class, and corrected as new versions.Food Nexus in ReportsReports
- Risk AcademyWhere methods and systems are taught on real data and real places, by working the case, on Risk Academy.Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences in Academyrisksacademy.com
What the work is read against.
The platform does not set standards. It reads its evidence against the frameworks that competent bodies have adopted, so a finding can be placed where a decision-maker already works.
| Framework or standard | Body | What it sets |
|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Development Goal 2 and its indicators | United Nations, with FAO as custodian of most indicators | Targets and definitions for hunger, food insecurity, malnutrition, smallholder productivity, genetic diversity and food price anomalies |
| Codex Alimentarius | FAO and WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission | International food standards, hygiene codes of practice and maximum limits for contaminants and residues, referenced in trade |
| Integrated Food Security Phase Classification technical manual | IPC Global Partnership | Protocols and phase scales for classifying acute food insecurity, chronic food insecurity and acute malnutrition |
| WTO Agreement on Agriculture and the SPS Agreement | World Trade Organization | Rules on market access, domestic support and export competition, and on sanitary and phytosanitary measures in trade |
| Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Adequate Food | FAO Council | Guidance for states on progressively realising the right to adequate food through national food security policy |
| Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure | Committee on World Food Security | Principles for governing tenure of land, fisheries and forests, including recognition of legitimate customary rights |
| International Plant Protection Convention | FAO, IPPC Secretariat | International standards for phytosanitary measures to prevent the introduction and spread of plant pests |
| Terrestrial and Aquatic Animal Health Codes | World Organisation for Animal Health | Standards for surveillance, notification and control of animal diseases, and for safe trade in animals and their products |
| Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety | Convention on Biological Diversity | Procedures for risk assessment and transboundary movement of living modified organisms |
| Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction | UNDRR | Targets and priorities for reducing disaster losses, with direct agricultural loss among the indicators reported |
The same field, seen three ways.
GCRI studies a field as science, GRF governs it and GRA builds shared financial understanding of it. Food Nexus links to its counterparts so that work on one side is visible on the others.
- Diplomacy NexusInstitutionGRFShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Climate and Nature GovernanceInstitutionGRFShared fieldClimate and hazards, Food and agriculture
- Insurance NexusInstitutionGRAShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Banking NexusInstitutionGRAShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Asset Management NexusInstitutionGRAShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Reinsurance and CatastropheInstitutionGRAShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Climate and Nature Financial RiskInstitutionGRAShared fieldClimate and hazards
Where this page’s references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
- The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 (FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO, 2025)
- Global Report on Food Crises 2025 (Global Network Against Food Crises and FSIN, 2025)
- IPC Technical Manual version 3.1 (IPC Global Partnership, 2021)
- IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (IPCC, 2019)
- Nexus Standards, the proposed NS series (nexustandards.com)
Pages in Food Nexus.
Mandate and publisher
PageField overview
PageResearch and evidence
PageInnovation and practical technology
PageProgrammes and projects
PageData and technical methods
PageSpecialist community
PageLearning and professional development
PageEvents and technical dialogues
PageResearch and publications
PageParticipation paths
PageContact the specialist team
PageTrust, rights and status
PageSTEM foundation of Food Nexus
PageHow work moves in this field
PageBuild in Foundry
PageTest in Universe
PagePublish in Reports
PageThe same field across the Consortium
PageTopics
Where this page leads across the Consortium.
Questions and answers.
Who publishes Food Nexus?
Is Food Nexus active?
How can I contribute?
Where are findings published?
Which values on this platform are real?
How do I report an error?
Is Food Nexus a food aid or emergency service?
Who is Food Nexus for?
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How Food Nexus works.
Choose a view and press Play to follow the platform’s process, its programme year, the standards it applies and how its findings are published. The outline shows how the work is designed to run, not the status of any decision.
Food Nexus
How Food Nexus works
Platforms · Programme year · Standards · Reports
A platform joins a field to named methods, labelled evidence and the outputs it publishes, without becoming the authority it serves.
01 Scope
- 01Field and familiesStart · The platform leadThe home states the field, its families and who it serves.
- 02Topic dossiersRecord · Platform authorsTopics explain the subject with labelled evidence.
02 Evidence
- 03Evidence labelsRecord · GCRIEach value is labelled: observed, published statistics, estimated, modelled, scenario or unknown.
- 04MethodsStep · Method ownersMethods come from the STEM Commons, each with one canonical page.
03 Work
- 05Scenarios on the systemsModel · Foundry pillarScenarios run on the Nexus systems, labelled as scenario.
- 06Standards that applyRecord · Nexus StandardsThe platform names the standards that apply. A validator report is evidence for review.
04 Publish
- 07EditionsRecord · ReportsFindings are published through Reports with their limits.
- 08Authority decidesOutcome · The competent authorityDecisions and execution stay with the government, operator or licensed institution.
Food Nexus home · Platforms · Shared methodsAn outline of how the work is designed to run; it does not report the status of any decision or record.
Take part in Food Nexus.
Start from who you are. Answer an open call. Or form and lead a competence cell on the Food Nexus platform.
National institutions
Ministries, statistics offices and agencies: a national desk and chapter, and a seat in the working groups. National chapters
Sectors and professions
Operators, regulators, banks, insurers and professional bodies whose work touches Food Nexus. Participate
Learning
Courses and practice, with a record of every course completed. Free to study. Open learning
Standards
Draft, review and adopt the methods and data standards with the working groups. Working groups
Communities and research
Universities, civil society and individual experts: projects, data and review. Write to the team
| Open call | Seeks | Closes |
|---|---|---|
| Founding call for experts to the working groups CALL-FOUNDING-EXPERTS | expert, editor, chair | 2026-12-15 |
| Open nomination for the three independent expert seats of the Global Standards Council CALL-GSC-IND | council-member | 2026-12-01 |
| Nominations of interim regional members (applies only if the transitional provision is decided) CALL-GSC-REG | council-member | 2026-12-15 |
| Review of the wave-1 risk core outlines (C1, C2, C3, C4, C8, C10, C11) CALL-REVIEW-WAVE1 | contributor | 2027-01-31 |
| Experts for the core standards of risk science: uncertainty and evidence grading, scales, structured expert judgement, tolerability, extremes and compound events, catastrophic and existential risk, ethics and equity, units and measurement (NRS-C17 to NRS-C24) CALL-CORE-SCIENCE | expert, editor, chair | 2027-01-31 |
| Independent reviewers for the families of the hazard atlas, three from at least two regions for each family (NHS2-R19), priority families first CALL-ATLAS-REVIEW | expert | 2027-03-31 |
| Members of the interim Frontier Safety Review Panel and red-team reviewers (biosafety and biosecurity, AI safety and security, critical-infrastructure security); applications treated in confidence CALL-FRONTIER-SAFETY-REVIEW | expert | 2026-11-30 |
| Experts in ontology, metrology, software verification and conformity assessment for the requirement register, the NHS-2 machine representation, the conformance test suites and the conformity assessment scheme CALL-CONFORMANCE-ONTOLOGY | expert, editor | 2027-01-31 |
Calls past their closing date are hidden automatically. Every call, proposal and route: open areas and calls.
Gather the cell
Bring together three to seven people with complementary skills: data, field practice, policy and communication.
Register it
Write to the team with the cell’s name, members, area and region. You receive a reference and a contact. Write to the team
Choose a charter
Pick one focus: research and evidence, data and maps, standards review, or community preparedness.
Learn together
Follow shared study paths at Risk Academy, with practice and a record of every course completed. Hazards and resilience
Lead and report
Hold regular sessions. Publish what the cell learns through Reports. Bring findings to the working groups. Working groups
What a national team or a local community can do on The Global Risks Index (NXS-GRX) today.
Your country’s profile
Open risk profiles for 195 countries, with sources and licences on every value. Open the Index
Correct or reply
Correct a value or reply for your country. The change is logged with its effect. Open the Index
Offer data
Offer a dataset. It enters through the licence gate, with your credit. Open the Index
Every figure on this page is indexed: hazards, climate, conflict, the world.
The Index is the Consortium’s indexing system for risk data. Every indicator, hazard, series and country profile carries its Nexus Standards identifier, its source and its licence, so what this page shows can be traced, corrected and reused.
- 01 · Sources205 registered sourcesEvery value keeps its source and licence; withheld values are counted.Data and licences
- 02 · Nexus StandardsNIS-1 and NHS-1451 indicators, 905 hazards; every record carries a UNI.Nexus Standards
- 03 · The Index54 series, 195 country profilesComputed on the standards; no value is published until an edition is released.The Global Risks Index
- 04 · This pageFood NexusMaps, figures and feeds read the Index in the context of hazards, climate, conflict.Public API
Series in this context hazards, climate, conflict
- GLBGlobal SystemsThe state of interdependent global risk: the twenty domain indices aggregated to the world, the five core systems (water, energy, food, health, biodiversity) and their couplings, the global tail register and the gap…NXS-GRX-AR-000002Hazards · Climate · Conflict
- THDisaster Risk Intelligence (DRI)Signals, observations, event streams, geospatial layers and scenario packs turned into structured risk intelligence for preparedness and planning.NXS-GRX-AR-000111Hazards · Climate · Conflict
- GSGlobal CitiesUrban exposure, heat, flooding, informal settlement, service dependency and the economic weight of cities at risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000068Hazards · Infrastructure · Climate
- GSGlobal ClimateChronic and acute physical climate hazard, transition exposure, adaptation gaps and scenario pathways to 2030, 2050 and 2100.NXS-GRX-AR-000065Climate · Hazards · Finance
Country profiles the world
Every country profile carries the source and licence of each value. Correct a value or reply
Hazard domains NHS-1
- Atmosphere and weatherNXS-GRX-AR-000135
- Solid EarthNXS-GRX-AR-000138
- Systemic and compound eventsNXS-GRX-AR-000148
Geodata and API open
Open layers on an equal-area hexagon grid, shown as densities per km² or as symbols: People · GHSL 2025People · WorldPop 2025Built-up areaPortsAirportsRoadsRailwaysRivers and lake centrelines
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