Food Research
The ECI has an internationally-recognised track record in food systems research, with special emphasis on the interactions with environmental change. Key strengths include using a food systems lens to research food security issues, and developing research partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders including business, policy, development agencies, NGOs and academia at large.
Food Systems
ECI’s Food Systems Research is strengthening understanding on how food systems function and interact with socioeconomic and environmental parameters across spatial and temporal levels.
Led by John Ingram.
CCAFS
Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security is a ten-year research initiative launched in 2011 by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and 'Future Earth').
The ECI delivers the Scenarios Component, led by Joost Vervoort.
FCRN
The Food Climate Research Network combines integrative research into food systems and climate change mitigation, with a strong drive to foster change through knowledge sharing, dissemination and project seeding across disciplines and sectors. Running since 2005 and having recently moved to the ECI, it is currently funded by CCAFS and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food.
FCRN is led by Tara Garnett.
Outputs
This briefing is about how different futures might affect food security and environmental change in East Africa. ECI Insights for Policy 1 (2013).
John Ingram has written the editorial to a special issue of Planet Earth (Natural Environment Research Council) on food systems.
Palsson, G., Szerszynski, B., Sörlin, S., Marks, J., Avril, B., Crumley, C., Hackmann, H., Holm, P., Ingram, J.S.I., Kirman, A., Buendía, M.P. and Weehuizen, R. (2013)Reconceptualizing the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene: Integrating the social sciences and humanities in global environmental change research. Environmental Science and Policy, 28: 3-13.
Network Affiliations
The Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food is an interdisciplinary programme of research and policy engagement concerning all aspects of the food system, based at the University of Oxford.