Food for Humanity Initiative
RECAP - Food Systems Countdown Initiative Webinar: Tracking Progress and Managing Interactions
Thank you to everyone that joined the Food System Countdown Initiative (FSCI) webinar!
Access the presentation and the recording to learn more about the 2024 FSCI Report, tracking global progress on the Countdown's 50 indicators and examining interactions across indicators. Learn more about how the Food Systems Dashboard can be used to explore the those indicators.
Food for Humanity Initiative Strategy
Curious about the Columbia Climate School's latest group - the Food for Humanity Initiative?
The F4Hi is a multi-disciplinary collaborative network that brings together people and projects on food systems research, teaching, policy, and programming from across Columbia University and beyond, leveraging multiple areas of existing expertise: climate, environment, agriculture, health, and nutrition, which comprise some of the most significant sectors of the global food system.
Thanks to everyone who took the time out to join our strategy launch webinar!
You can download a copy of the strategy here.
You can watch a recording of our strategy launch here.
New From The F4Hi
Assessing disparities in access, use, and potential benefits of weather and climate information services among farmers in Guatemala’s Dry Corridor
by Maya Moore, Geneva List, Max Mauerman, Dante Salazar Ballesteros, Walter Baethgen
Highlights
How climate change could affect arsenic in rice
Rice is a staple food for billions of people around the planet, but a new study suggests climate change may increase arsenic levels contained within the grain.
Read via BBC
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, Food Security, and Nutrition: Evolving Relationships and Critical Challenges
Climate change, also known as global warming, poses significant challenges for both the planet and humanity. With further warming, every region across the world is projected to increasingly experience concurrent and multiple changes in climate, compounding overall risk. Long-term climate change and near-term extreme weather events have multiple negative effects on food security, diets, and nutrition via complex, multidirectional pathways through food, health, water, and social protection systems.
“Climate change and the rampant extreme events we are grappling with are a reckoning. We are realizing we don’t have a choice, and for some living in resource-constrained settings, the choice is even more limited. We have to change the way we grow food, how we distribute it, and how we consume it. We have to consider equity issues across food systems. We have to hold our governments and the range of private sector actors accountable to assist in this transition. We can’t leave it to eaters to fend for themselves when the cards are often stacked against them.” – Jessica Fanzo, Professor of Climate and Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative, Columbia Climate School