1. Director, ACES Office of International Programs
Food Systems for Food Security Symposium of International Food Security at Illinois (IFSI) February 10, 2015
Alex Winter-Nelson
Director, ACES Office of International Programs

2. Food Security

3. Grand Challenge of Access to Sufficient, Safe, Nutritious food for all
Food Security
800 million to 1 billion people globally lack access to sufficient food (FAO)
2 billion people suffer micronutrient malnutrition from inadequately nutritious food (HarvestPlus)
Unknown numbers globally suffer health effects from unsafe food (CDC FoodNet for USA)
Grand Challenge of Access to Sufficient, Safe, Nutritious food for all

4. Food Systems Input supply Production Processing Distribution
A food system includes all processes and infrastructure involved in growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consuming, and disposing of food and food-related items.
Input supply
Production
Processing
Distribution
Consumption
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste

5. Food Systems
Complicated by: Environmental Technological Economic Political Social Legal And Other Factors and Feedbacks.
Do not present nice closed loops at local or national scale.
Processing
Distribution

6. Food Systems
University of Illinois Capacity in Food Systems Working on them since 1867

7. Food Systems
University of Illinois Capacity in Food Systems Working on them since 1867 Research, teaching and outreach address all stages of food system and engage multiple factors and feedbacks What does focusing capacity on Food Security mean?

9. Food Systems for Food Security
Start with vulnerability to food insecurity
work is rooted in problems of consumers’ access to food
Identify intervention in food system to address it
work is grounded in understanding of full food system
Apply research to enhance food system’s capacity to provide access to Sufficient, Safe, Nutritious food
work is likely multidisciplinary
Work with partners to implement change

10. Food Systems for Food Security
Today Demonstrate breadth of capacity Explore limits & potential of food systems approach Identify linkages and potential linkages across and beyond campus Welcome and thanks for being here