Level: Introductory

Description: 

This learning lab will engage participants in exploring food systems data and innovations, using two connected open access tools, the Food Systems Dashboard (https://foodsystemsdashboard.org/) and the Innovative Food Systems Solutions portal (https://ifssportal.nutritionconnect.org/). First, using the Food Systems Dashboard, participants will learn how to navigate through a diversity of over 200 food systems indicators from over 30 databases, to identify patterns and challenge areas, to explore positive deviants, to connect multiple components and functions of food systems, and to support the development of applied systems approaches. Second, for a specific context, participants will elaborate on food systems challenge areas, identified through the Food Systems Dashboard, and co-create bundles of potential innovations, investment options, and action pathways using the Innovative Food Systems Solutions portal as a support tool in this process.

Preparatory materials

Session Slides

Websites & Resources to refer to: 

• Food Systems Dashboard https://foodsystemsdashboard.org/  

• Innovative Food Systems Solutions (IFSS) Portal https://ifssportal.nutritionconnect.org/   

• The Food Systems Dashboard - How does it work? Presentation from Lawrence Haddad at EAT 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DzsjTsMRpI 

Background papers for reference: 

• The Food Systems Dashboard is a new tool to inform better food policy (Fanzo et al. 2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-0077-y  

• You say you want a data revolution: Taking on food systems accountability (Marshall et al. 2021) https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/5/422/htm 

• Building a global food systems typology: A new tool for reducing complexity in food systems analysis (Marshall et al. 2021) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.746512/full?&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Sustainable_Food_Systems&id=746512 

• Project DISRUPT - Game-changing innovations for healthy diets on a healthy planet (Pedersen et al. 2020) https://www.gainhealth.org/resources/reports-and-publications/gain-working-paper-series-15-project-disrupt-game-changing-innovations-for-healthy-diets-healthy-planet  

• ​​Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system (Herrero et al. 2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-0074-1  

• Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals (Herrero et al. 2021) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30277-1/fulltext  

• Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems (Barrett et al. 2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00661-8  

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