The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
The research behind Food Nexus: the questions it asks, the methods it uses and how evidence is reviewed before it is published.
GCRI · Established · service level R0
Food Nexus research is the evidence work behind the platform: questions such as agricultural production and food security and access, answered with agricultural, soil and food science as well as ecology and biodiversity science and reviewed before publication. Every result carries an evidence label, from observed to modelled or expert judgement, and missing data is shown as missing, never filled silently.
Fig.How a finding is reviewed before it is published. Design, not a record.
Plains, deltas and basins, the corridors that carry food to ports, and how far each division sits from one, shown for Viet Nam as an example geography for this subject.
Crop, livestock and aquaculture production systems.
Availability, affordability and nutrition.
Soil health, land degradation and productivity.
Water and energy demand in production.
Refrigeration, logistics and food safety.
Precision agriculture, biotechnology and technology safeguards.
Food crises are rarely caused by a single harvest failure. The research agenda follows the chain from weather and soils to prices, incomes and diets, and asks where the chain is least understood.
Results are labelled as observed, officially reported, estimated, modelled, forecast, scenario or expert judgement. Missing data is shown as missing, never filled silently.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Research integrity | Conduct of research in line with principles of reliability, honesty, respect and accountability, as the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity sets them out. |
| Evidence label | A tag on an assertion naming the kind of evidence behind it, such as observed, officially reported or modelled. |
| Reproducibility | Obtaining consistent results using the same data and analysis code as the original study. |
| Vegetation condition anomaly | The departure of a satellite vegetation index from its long-term average for the same place and time of year, used to flag crop stress. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
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.