Hunger and food insecurity are accelerating through overlapping shocks: climate extremes, conflict and displacement, animal and plant disease (HPAI, ASF, locusts), fertilizer and energy volatility, currency swings, export bans, port and corridor bottlenecks, food-safety incidents, and rising loss and waste. Affordability crises and the double burden of malnutrition intensify risk for households and markets alike. Nexus Platforms makes the response anticipatory and provable: it standardizes and benchmarks food-system data; fuses EO rainfall/soil-moisture and yield signals with prices, terms of trade, pests, logistics telemetry, and mobility; pre-authorizes triggers that release targeted assistance and stabilize supply; routes capital via forecast-based and parametric rails; and evidences outcomes with audit-grade MRV—under sovereign privacy and open standards. Built for ministries of finance and agriculture, DFIs/MDBs, UN agencies, cities, and major buyers, it delivers one defensible record from early warning to market stabilization to nutrition results—aligned with SDG 2, IPC/CH, Codex, SPS/IPPC, WOAH, and national law.
- Standardize & Benchmark — Unify IPC/CH, market prices/availability, nutrition and livelihoods into comparable dashboards with KPIs, confidence bands, and update cadence
- Sense & Forecast — Combine EO rainfall/NDVI/soil moisture, yield models, pest/disease alerts, conflict/mobility, tariff and FX feeds to predict hotspots weeks in advance
- Target & Trigger — Geospatial eligibility and consent-aware rules release cash, vouchers, or in-kind support ≤72 h via ISO 20022/mobile-money rails; school feeding and clinic stocks pre-position on forecast thresholds
- Protect Supply — Reroutes and customs fast-lanes for staples; cold-chain/storage telemetry; warehouse-receipt and lot tracing (GS1/EPCIS) to reduce spoilage and keep corridors moving
- Safeguard Food Safety — HACCP/ISO 22000 checklists, contamination and aflatoxin alerts, AMR signal integration, and recall workflows linked to labs/inspections; cure SLAs from farm/lot to outlet
- Cut Loss & Waste — Post-harvest condition monitoring, hermetic storage, dynamic aggregation/pricing, and buyer matchmaking to lower loss and raise smallholder returns
- Finance & Insure — Forecast-based financing, parametric drought/failed-rainfall covers, buffer-stock release rules, SME working-capital/input finance disbursed on verified impact
- Prove Outcomes — Audit-grade MRV for timeliness, leakage, nutrition (wasting/stunting, FCS, rCSI), food-safety incidents closed, and loss-rate reduction; one-build reports to SDG 2 and donor requirements via federated, in-country analytics
Price Volatility & Affordability
Food inflation, FX swings, and export bans can push households into crisis within weeks. Nexus Platforms fuse AMIS market feeds, customs data, FX curves, and household price baskets to nowcast affordability gaps by district and income band. Policy-as-code triggers tariff shields, targeted cash or voucher top-ups, and school-meal expansions on verified thresholds; results-based programs settle on measured price stabilization and dietary adequacy. Evidence chains align to IPC and SDG 2 reporting so treasuries and donors fund with confidence
Crop & Livestock Health
Desert locusts, Fall Armyworm, HPAI, and ASF drive sharp production shocks. Field observations, pheromone traps, eDNA, abattoir reports, and trade alerts are fused into spread forecasts and confidence bands. Clause-governed playbooks mobilize targeted spraying, vaccination, zoning, and humane culls; indemnities and restocking funds release on verified events. Veterinary and plant-health dossiers are generated to OIE/WOAH and IPPC standards, reducing dispute and cycle time
Post-Harvest Loss & Storage
Losses in drying, storage, transport, and markets can exceed on-farm gains. Temperature/humidity IoT, warehouse receipts, transport telemetry, and quality tests quantify losses by node. Pre-authorized upgrades—hermetic bags, dryers, packhouses, ripening control—are financed through results-based contracts that pay on measured loss reduction. Codex-aligned QA logs and GS1 traceability evidence performance to lenders, buyers, and regulators
Nutrition Gaps & Urban Food Access
Rising prices, poor diversity, and broken last-mile distribution increase wasting, stunting, and NCD risk—especially in cities. Household consumption surveys, point-of-sale data, clinic records, and mobility patterns locate nutrition deserts and delivery bottlenecks. Triggers expand fortified staples, fresh-food vouchers, and maternal/child packages; results-based nutrition contracts pay on verified MUAC/HAZ improvements and diet diversity scores, with privacy-preserving analytics built in
Smallholder Liquidity & Inclusion
Thin files, volatile cash flow, and climate risk lock smallholders out of finance and premium markets. Verified performance data (yields, quality, delivery, conservation practices) and supervised alternative data upgrade eligibility while enforcing fair-lending rules. Warehouse receipts, offtake guarantees, and parametric micro-covers provide reliable liquidity; benefit-sharing and E&S safeguards are documented to IFC PS and national frameworks, attracting blended finance at scale
Climate & Weather Extremes
Drought, heat, floods, and storms are collapsing yields and pasture resilience. Ensemble weather, soil moisture, EO vegetation indices, and farm telemetry are converted into plot-level hazard curves and yield risk. Pre-agreed early actions—seed switching, water allocations, livestock feed depots—activate before losses peak; parametric covers (rainfall/heat) pay within 72 hours on certified triggers. All actions and payouts are MRV’d against Sendai and Paris indicators with open, audit-grade provenance
Input Insecurity & Energy Linkage
Fertilizer, seed, feed, and diesel constraints amplify yield risk and price spikes. Nexus Platforms integrate global input prices, port/warehouse stocks, subsidy ledgers, and last-mile distribution to forecast shortages and leakage. Triggers issue input vouchers, reorder logistics, and activate efficiency retrofits (solar pumps, cold-chain power) with receipt-level verification. MRV maps to budget support, while transparency packs satisfy anti-corruption and donor safeguards
Supply Chain & Trade Disruptions
Port closures, corridor insecurity, and sanctions choke flows and spike costs. AIS/EO corridor monitoring, berth telemetry, customs events, and sanctions screens drive real-time rerouting and risk pricing. Clause-governed playbooks stage surge logistics, alternate corridors, and inland buffer stocks; parametric logistics covers and working-capital top-ups disburse on verified delays. A single ledger reconciles actions to banks, insurers, and border agencies
Food Safety & Traceability
Contamination, adulteration, and cold-chain breaks erode trust and trade. HACCP/ISO 22000 telemetry, lab tests, and inspection logs are bound to GS1/GTIN units and batch movements to create end-to-end traceability. Clause-governed containment, recall, and remediation execute with proof of notification and remedy; Codex-aligned evidence packs give regulators, buyers, and insurers the same admissibility record and reduce time to market re-entry
Degradation & Deforestation
Soil erosion, groundwater depletion, and conversion of high-value habitats undermine long-term food security and market access. EO land-cover, aquifer status, and field sensors quantify condition and trend; least-cost mitigation—precision irrigation, contouring, mangrove/riparian buffers—are sequenced by service uplift per dollar. EUDR/TNFD tagging and SEEA-EA accounts convert verified outcomes into compliance and nature-positive finance, with public dashboards that deter backsliding
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Use OP, GRIx, iVRS, and MPM to flag food and hunger risks you observe or anticipate—failed rains/drought or flood/storm crop damage; pest or animal-disease outbreaks; fertilizer/seed/fuel shortages; post-harvest loss or silo/warehouse failures; cold-chain or transport corridor disruptions; market closures or sharp price spikes; school-meal or cash/voucher pipeline breaks; food-safety contamination alerts; emerging malnutrition hotspots; or any credible access/security constraints affecting deliveries you are authorized to report
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- We capture location, time, asset/site (feeder, substation, plant, station), observed/expected impact (e.g., SAIDI/SAIFI, MTTR, price effects), and optional evidence (photos, meter screenshots, receipts).
- Data may be shared with authorized responders and integrated—anonymized or aggregated—into humanitarian, scientific, and policy data lakes to inform risk reduction.
- Records include provenance and consent metadata; storage follows sovereign data-residency rules where applicable.
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- High-quality, validated reports may earn participation credits (pCredits); credits are discretionary and do not imply employment.
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Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
Hunger is not merely the absence of food—it is the manifestation of systemic failure across agriculture, climate, logistics, governance, and social equity. It is driven by supply chain shocks, environmental degradation, displacement, price volatility, armed conflict, land inequities, and political exclusion. To confront hunger in all its forms—chronic, acute, and hidden—requires a multidimensional, real-time, and justice-centered response. Hunger persists as one of the most urgent and complex global challenges, affecting over 735 million people in 2023. It is deeply interlinked with climate variability, poverty, conflict, gender inequality, ecosystem degradation, and disrupted food systems. Traditional hunger interventions often rely on reactive logistics or siloed datasets, lacking the dynamic modeling, predictive foresight, or governance innovation needed to anticipate and respond effectively.
The MPM enables agile, collaborative development of hunger-related tools:
A Quest articulates a clear problem—e.g., “Map high-risk zones of acute food insecurity linked to climate shocks and displacement.”
Contributors claim Bounties to build individual components: for instance, developing machine learning models for food price volatility, integrating remote sensing to assess crop failure, or constructing dashboards for nutrition service delivery.
Each Quest is accelerated through a Build—a modular toolkit including curated datasets (e.g., IPC, FAO, WFP), interactive interfaces, climate overlays, and pre-configured smart contract templates to automate food aid based on predefined thresholds (e.g., rainfall deficits, malnutrition spikes).
This model ensures solutions are rapidly created, field-tested, adapted to local contexts, and interoperable across humanitarian and governance systems.
NE can support a wide array of RRI-driven hunger solutions, including:
- Hunger vulnerability heatmaps combining geospatial, social, and health indicators
- Crop yield failure and price-spike predictors using real-time weather and market data
- Mobile early warning systems for communities, schools, and clinics to flag hunger hotspots
- Nutrition-sensitive budgeting dashboards for ministries and humanitarian actors
- Anticipatory finance engines that trigger support (e.g., cash transfers, school meals, seed/fertilizer aid) when hunger thresholds are forecasted to be breached
- Interactive food system stress simulators to inform national food policy and humanitarian preparedness
- Resilience mapping tools to visualize and strengthen local food systems, especially in fragile and climate-exposed regions
- AI models for food allocation optimization across value chains, considering perishability, equity, and efficiency
Each solution is modular and aligned with SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), the Global Network Against Food Crises, and national strategies for food security and nutrition.
- Inclusive design: Farmers, food workers, community health providers, and vulnerable households are engaged as co-creators—not just data sources.
- Data dignity and sovereignty: Food and nutrition data is anonymized, consent-based, and stored in formats that protect community rights, especially among displaced and Indigenous populations.
- Equity enforcement: Smart contracts can embed gender equity, youth inclusion, or rural priority as conditions for disbursements.
- Impact accountability: All aid flows, alert triggers, and model results are auditable, explainable, and publicly reviewable.
- Interoperability: Nexus tools are designed to work across humanitarian agencies, local governments, and regional food councils using open standards.
- “Build a predictive model for post-harvest food loss in Sub-Saharan drylands”
- “Develop a malnutrition alert system for children under five in flood-prone refugee camps”
- “Simulate the impact of climate volatility on staple food prices in East Africa”
- “Create a food security dashboard integrating nutrition service coverage, weather anomalies, and food market access”
- “Design a smart contract system to release school meal funding when school closure or drought thresholds are met”
These Quests are supported by GRA partners, regional Nexus Working Groups, humanitarian coalitions, and open-source contributors.
- Initiate a Quest: Propose a hunger-related challenge based on your programmatic focus or regional context. Nexus will support you in scoping data, defining impact, and issuing Bounties.
- Sponsor or claim Bounties: Contribute funding, data, or expertise to accelerate innovations or receive grants for delivering system components.
- Deploy Builds: Use ready-to-launch applications—e.g., early warning dashboards, equity-based food aid distribution engines, or mobile hunger alert systems—tailored to your operational needs.
- Join the Global Risks Alliance: Gain access to high-performance compute infrastructure, co-funding opportunities, policy frameworks, global standards alignment, and long-term governance for RRI in hunger resilience.
Diagnose
Multidimensional Risk Sensing
Design
Solution Architecture and Responsible Framing
Develop
Modular Prototyping and Real-Time Integration
Validate
Risk Governance, Compliance, and Impact Monitoring
Operationalize
Distributed Deployment and Adaptive Scaling
Ensuring Stable Food Commodity Markets And Timely Access To Information
Adopting measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, to help limit extreme food price volatility.
5 Steps
- Complete Onboarding Process
- Join Zero Hunger
- Join Seminars
- Join Hackathons
- Get nominated for CoI Level I
Sustainable Food Production And Resilient Agricultural Practices
Ensuring sustainable food production systems and implementing resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and progressively improve land and soil quality.
5 Steps
- Complete Onboarding Process
- Join Zero Hunger
- Join Seminars
- Join Hackathons
- Get nominated for CoI Level I
Preventing Agricultural Trade Restrictions, Market Distortions And Export Subsidies
Correcting and preventing trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round.
5 Steps
- Complete Onboarding Process
- Join Zero Hunger
- Join Seminars
- Join Hackathons
- Get nominated for CoI Level I
Investing In Rural Infrastructure, Agricultural Research, Technology And Gene Banks
Increasing investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular, least developed countries.
5 Steps
- Complete Onboarding Process
- Join Zero Hunger
- Join Seminars
- Join Hackathons
- Get nominated for CoI Level I
Ending All Forms Of Malnutrition
Ending all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.
5 Steps
- Complete Onboarding Process
- Join Zero Hunger
- Join Seminars
- Join Hackathons
- Get nominated for CoI Level I