Policy Position Papers
Regionalized Food Systems: Improving Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty
Michael W. Hamm, Ph.D.
Regionalized food systems provide an opportunity for improving resilience in the global food supply in a period of increasing uncertainty due to clima...
Zero Tolerance is a Bad Strategy to Protect Food Safety
Don Stoeckel, Ph.D.
When promulgating regulations, government agencies tend to be unwilling to directly accept negative outcomes, including illness, as an acceptable poss...
Adopting Genetically Modified Crops Worldwide for Food Security
Jennifer Ann Thomson, Ph.D.
One of the ways to increase food security with concomitant improvement of the agricultural environment is to adopt genetically modified (GM) crops. Th...
Ensuring Food and Nutrition Security through Changes in Food Development, Processing, and Culture
Jeffrey B. Blumberg, Ph.D., FASN, FACN
By Jeffrey BlumbergDuring the next 50 years, the impacts of a worldwide population approaching 10 billion people and inexorable changes in global clim...
Food Systems and Environmental Change: Navigating the Two-way Street
John Ingram, Ph.D.
While advances in food production have largely kept pace with demand on a global basis, nearly 1 billion people are hungry, and about 2 billion more l...
Competing for Land: Future Trajectories for Rural Development
Wendy Wolford, Ph.D.
The question of how to feed a growing global population without further compromising global resources has become perhaps the single most pressing issu...
Building Resilience for Global Food Security
Christopher B. Barrett, Ph.D.
Many of the world’s chronically poor and malnourished people live in increasingly volatile settings. Although most of the world has enjoyed unpreced...
ISGP Backgrounder
Institute on Science for Global Policy
Summary
As the second decade of the 21st century opens, most societies are facing difficult decisions concerning how to appropriately use, or reject,...
The Reality of Climate Change
Institute on Science for Global Policy
Summary
Many of the most significant geopolitical and security issues currently challenging societies, both developed and developing, are directly ...
The Emerging Landscape of Medicine and Health Care
Dr. Leroy Hood
President and Co-founder, Institute for Systems Biology
Summary
Advances in genomic and systems technologies have led to the emergence of person...