The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Shared scientific and institutional priorities that cut across countries, and the methods used to compare them. A global programme is a shared agenda, not a claim of global offices.
The Food Nexus global programme is the shared agenda of priorities in the food and agriculture field that cut across countries, such as agricultural production and food system shocks, with the methods used to compare them. It is an agenda, not a claim of global offices, and each element shows its status from the programme record.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. 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 Middle East and North Africa 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.
| Process or body | What it sets |
|---|---|
| FAO and FAOSTAT | Statistics, food balance sheets and technical standards |
| AMIS (G20 Agricultural Market Information System) | Transparency on grain and oilseed markets and policy coordination |
| Committee on World Food Security | Policy guidance including the right-to-food guidelines |
| Codex Alimentarius | International food safety standards |
| SDG 2 | Ending hunger and indicators on undernourishment and food insecurity experience |
A global programme compares methods for outlooks and shock analysis; it does not forecast prices for trading purposes.
Programmes are listed as exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. Country and regional entries appear when a programme record supports them.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Programme | A group of related projects and activities managed together to obtain benefits that managing them separately would not, in the sense the Project Management Institute's programme standard uses. |
| Results-based management | A management approach in which everyone contributing to a set of results makes sure their processes, products and services serve those results, and measures progress against them, as the UN Development Group handbook sets out. |
| Theory of change | A stated chain of causes from a programme's activities to its intended outcomes, used to plan evaluation. |
| 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 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.