In recent months, we've seen just how a conflict in one region can evolve into food challenges elsewhere. Fertilizer price volatility is shaping what farmers can grow and what consumers ultimately pay at the supermarket. Hunger, nutrition, and food access are continually shaped by a web of interconnected forces – from policy to infrastructure and economics. And rarely does one of these shift in isolation.
Rather, all of these forces converge across what we call a food system that can be local, regional or global. Understanding where a system is strong, where it is strained, and where targeted investments and policy are critical to driving positive change.