Blackouts and water shortages can severely harm a nation’s food security. Resource allocation tools can help policy makers improve energy access while minimising hunger, says the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Louise Karlberg.
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Shocks to the food system: Building a prediction engine for policy
- Date: 25 January 2019
- Author(s): Valeria Shumaylova and Aled Jones
Valeria Shumaylova (University of Cambridge) and Aled Jones (Anglia Ruskin University) describe the rationale behind their recent project exploring data science techniques to study the link between food production shocks, food prices and food riots.
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Launch of new report on transformative innovation in the food system
- Date: 18 January 2019
A new report published by the multi-agency Global Food Security (GFS) programme highlights how disruptive innovation is needed to transform the UK food system.
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