Resilient Food Systems at the Climate-Nature-Conflict Nexus

​This invite-only Climate Week NYC event will explore what it takes to build food systems resilient to compound climate, ecological, and conflict shocks.

​Food systems depend on healthy ecosystems as much as they depend on a stable climate and peace, but it’s not clear how well the tools built to protect food security actually account for that. Early warning systems, financing frameworks, and governance and capacity-building efforts are largely designed around climate and conflict (albeit to a limited degree). Where—if at all—are ecological considerations built into how these systems anticipate, finance, and govern food-system resilience? And where are the real gaps, as opposed to the ones we assume exist?

​This exploratory conversation brings together the people who run these systems—technical experts in early warning, financing practitioners, and governance specialists—to test that question directly. Where has ecological data changed a forecast, a financing decision, or a governance response? Where has it consistently been left out? Why and to what effect?

​Intended Outcomes

• ​A shared framing for participants to identify how to better integrate ecological indicators into early-warning, financing, and capacity-building systems.

• ​A key takeaways document for policymakers to encourage a follow-on discussion.

• ​Relationship building to support continued collaboration among participants and session partners on climate-nature-conflict food security work.

​Questions? Reach out to envsecurity@stimson.org.