The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Food Nexus is published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). Its mandate is the science of food-system security and resilience: how production, storage, trade and access respond to stress, and what evidence helps institutions prepare. This page sets out who is responsible, what the platform does and does not do, and its current operating state.
GCRI · Established · service level R0
Food Nexus is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation for food and agriculture, trade, resources and supply chains, and climate and hazards. Its mandate covers food-system security and resilience from land and production through supply chains, nutrition and access. GCRI publishes it, answers for its content and takes no decision on anyone's behalf. It is established and works at service level R0, information and enquiries.
Fig.How the platform is governed, from its mandate to the authorities who decide. Design, not a record.
The jurisdictions that hold authority over this question: countries, their first-level divisions and capitals, shown for the Gulf as an example geography for this subject.
The platform studies food systems as connected chains and publishes evidence that others can check and reuse.
Food and agriculture, with its links to trade and supply chains and to climate and hazards.
Agricultural scientists, farmers and producer organizations, food processors, nutrition specialists and logistics experts.
Food-system vulnerability briefs, agrifood dependency maps and resilience methods.
GCRI publishes Food Nexus and answers for its content. GCRI works across Canada and the United States. Editorial responsibility for the platform sits with GCRI's research function and its named subject reviewers.
GCRI is a research, development and policy institution. It is not a regulator, and it does not certify, license or approve; its findings carry their methods and uncertainty.
Decisions on food policy remain with the competent public authorities. Governance dialogue on land and climate takes place at The Global Risks Forum (GRF), for example at Climate and Nature Governance.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Service level R0 | The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment. |
| Conflict of interest | A situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review. |
| Food security | A situation in which all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for an active and healthy life, as defined at the World Food Summit. |
| Food system | All the activities, actors and resources involved in producing, storing, processing, trading, consuming and disposing of food, and the outcomes they produce. |
The platform publishes information and receives enquiries. Working groups, data partnerships and programme work open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist. See the field overview and ways to take part.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.