The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
The Nexus cycle in Food Nexus: question, evidence, build, organize, test, publish, decide and renew, with the page and owner of each step.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
The Nexus cycle in Food Nexus is the eight-step path by which a question in the food and agriculture field becomes evidence, a Foundry build, an organized community, a controlled test, a publication and a decision taken by the competent authority. Here the evidence step rests on agricultural, soil and food science as well as ecology and biodiversity science, and findings feed Global Sector Risk and Resilience.
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For how work moves in this field, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on crop greenness, night lights, population density and true-colour imagery, framed on the Black Sea region; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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A Food Nexus cycle typically begins with an import-dependent country's question about stocks or safety nets, gathers crop, price and household evidence, builds a shock model, tests it in a price-spike exercise and hands options to the ministries that set reserves and transfers.
| Step | Owner |
|---|---|
| Question | National, regional or institutional priority |
| Evidence | STEM foundation of the platform |
| Build | Nexus Foundry |
| Organize | Nexus Ecosystem: community, chapters, councils, national cells |
| Test | Nexus Universe (independent site) |
| Publish | Nexus Reports |
| Decide | Competent authorities and institutions, through Nexus Rails |
| Renew | Corrections and the next annual agenda |
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nexus cycle | The eight-step loop by which work moves in every Nexus field: question, evidence, build, organize, test, publish, decide and renew, each step with a named owner. |
| Competent authority | The body that a law or regulation designates to exercise a given power or duty, such as a supervisor, a civil protection agency or a ministry; only it can take the decisions the law assigns to it. |
| Peer review | Evaluation of a work by independent experts in the field before publication. |
| Yield gap | The difference between the yield farmers achieve and the yield attainable with the best adapted varieties and management under the same climate and soil. |
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.