Trading for Food Security in a Changing Climate

​The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT would like to invite you to a panel discussion titled “Trading for Food Security in a Changing Climate".

​International food trade has become essential for global food security, but the same interconnected networks that move food also transmit shocks—climatic, economic, and geopolitical. A panel of relevant industry experts will examine the linkages between food trade and food security through the lens of healthy diets and introduce the Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability, developed by MIT J-WAFS. The Index maps food-trade vulnerability across more than 180 countries.

​Join us for a moderated discussion on three questions: how to assess food security versus an inability to import; what balance of home-grown and imported food best serves healthy nutrition as diets shift; and where investment in productivity, infrastructure, and research are most needed as the climate changes.

​Moderator
Greg Sixt, Director, Food and Climate Systems Transformation (FACT) Alliance and Research Director for Food and Climate Systems, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS)

​Opening presentation: Introduction to the Jameel Index and J-WAFS work on food security, global change, and trade
Kenneth Strzepek, Technical Lead, Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability, MIT J-WAFS

​Panelists
Prof. Sheryl Hendriks, Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria

​Mark Rosegrant, Research Fellow Emeritus, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Former Director of IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology Division

​Paola de Almeida, CEO, Natural Systems Capital and Jameel Index Advisory Committee Member