Research
Conceptual and methodological research on:
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Food Systems, to improve understanding of the interactions between food systems and global environmental change
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Vulnerability and Adaptation, to integrate social and natural science understandings of how food systems are vulnerable to global environmental change, so as to better identify viable adaptation options for food systems
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Scenarios, to construct plausible futures of socioeconomic and environmental conditions for food system analyses
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Decision Support, to improve dialogue between scientists and policy-makers on the interactions between food security and environment
Regional research:
Conceptual and methodological research is integrated with studies on vulnerability and impacts, adaptation and feedbacks in:
The GECAFS food system concept also provided the framework for a preliminary analysis of the European Food System as part of the ESF/COST Forward Look on "European Food systems in a Changing World". COST-ESF Science Policy Briefing 36 summarises the Forward Look.