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Session Proposal: Advances in monitoring and measuring food system sustainability and resilience (AGU25)

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Advances in monitoring and measuring food system sustainability and resilience

Session ID#: 251327

Session Description:
Humanity faces the grand challenge of providing sufficient, affordable, and nutritious food to a growing, increasingly affluent population - a challenge intensified by widespread malnutrition and planetary-scale changes in climate, biodiversity, and biogeochemical cycles. Meeting this challenge holistically requires navigating potentially competing priorities on environmental sustainability, economic viability, health, and social equity.To track progress and inform decision-making, there is a growing need for robust, scalable, and context-sensitive methods to monitor and measure food system outcomes. Advances in data collection, remote sensing, modeling, participatory research, and integrative frameworks are essential to capture dynamics of food production, supply chains, food environments, and consumption—along with their effects on livelihoods, natural resources, and human health. This session invites contributions that develop, test, and apply innovative tools, indicators, and methodologies to assess food system sustainability and resilience, explore synergies and trade-offs across sectors and scales, and inform transformative interventions aligned with global sustainability targets
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • H - Hydrology
  • SY - Science and Society
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1942 Machine learning [INFORMATICS]
Primary Convener:  Kyle Frankel Davis, University of Delaware, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, United States
Conveners:  Carole Dalin, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Landon Marston, Virginia Tech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Blacksburg, United States and Marta Tuninetti, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Student/Early Career Convener:  Marta Tuninetti, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
 
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