The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics Food Nexus rests on. Each method has a canonical page in the STEM Commons, hosted by GCRI, and a page here on how it is applied in this field.
Food · 9 methods in use
| Agricultural, soil and food… | 2 | Benchmark | Q3 | Review due |
| Ecology and biodiversity… | 13 | Benchmark | Q3 | Current |
| Earth observation and remote… | 4 | Cross-validation | Q4 | Current |
| Spatial statistics and… | 12 | Hindcast | Q1 | Current |
| Forecasting and time-series… | 2 | Expert review | Q1 | Current |
| Optimization and operations… | 12 | Cross-validation | Q3 | Review due |
Food Nexus · Method registryMethod registry, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
The Food Nexus STEM foundation is the set of canonical methods its findings depend on, from agricultural, soil and food science to water and environmental engineering. For the Consortium, Food Nexus stewards agricultural, soil and food science. Each method has a canonical STEM Commons page and a page here on its use in the food and agriculture field.
Fig.The methods this platform draws on and what each one feeds. 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 Pakistan as an example geography for this subject.
Food risk runs from soils and weather to diets, so the method mix spans agricultural science and ecology for production, Earth observation and spatial statistics for where it happens, forecasting for when, econometrics for prices, and optimisation for how scarce supply is allocated. Hydrology and environmental engineering link it to water.
When a finding names the methods it depends on, a reader can see its assumptions and limits, and an expert in that method can challenge it.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| STEM Commons | The shared reference of science, technology, engineering and mathematics methods for the Nexus network, hosted by GCRI, with one canonical page per method and a named steward platform. |
| Steward platform | The platform that maintains the canonical description of a method in the STEM Commons and reviews how other platforms apply it. |
| Agricultural, soil and food science | Agricultural science studies crop and livestock production, soil processes and food systems. |
| Ecology and biodiversity science | Ecology studies the interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment, from populations to ecosystems. |
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.