The FSCI is a collaborative effort to monitor global food systems. It brings together indicators that span food systems and provides annual analysis to inform policy, business, and NGO priorities and actions. It supports the transformation of food systems, so they become equitable, sustainable, and resilient and positively contribute to achieving the 2030 SDGs and other global goals.
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Food systems performance evaluated against targets and benchmarks reveals urgent gaps and a path to 2050
The Indicators
Our selected indicators cover the five thematic areas of diets, nutrition, and health; environment, production, and natural resources; livelihoods, poverty and equity; governance; and resilience. Each thematic area is described by several different domains, under which there are specific indicators identified to be tracked.
FSCI Co-Chairs
Our Team
The Food Systems Countdown Initiative is led by Jessica Fanzo of Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Haddad of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Jose Rosero Moncayo of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and Mario Herrero of Cornell University. The Initiative involves dozens of collaborators from nearly as many organizations from almost all continents.
The Framework
This figure depicts the complexity of food systems, characterized by multiple dynamic components linked through unidirectional pathways as well as feedback loops, including elements and processes that occur at multiple scales.
