Jessica Fanzo POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - Information Needs for Food Crisis Risk Early Warning: The Role of the Food Security Portal Co-Organized by IFPRI and the Food Security Portal (FSP) NOV 24, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST

1. Food Systems Dashboard
Shaping Decisions on Food Systems Through Data
Jessica Fanzo
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Johns Hopkins University

2. Why a food systems dashboard?
 Increased international attention on how food
systems shape and are shaped by diets, health,
environment, climate and livelihoods
 Policymakers are often in the dark on how
to manage their food systems and need to
know where and how to start
 There is a need for tools that
contextualize food systems and their
linkages to diets, nutrition and other
development outcomes
 Food systems data is found across many
different databases, sometimes hard to
find, and not pulled together cohesively

3. Goals of the Dashboard
 Describe: Improve stakeholder
understanding of national food systems
 Diagnose: Enable stakeholders to compare
food systems across countries
 Decide: Suggest priority areas of action and
necessary actors to improve food system
contributions to diets and nutrition

5. The Organizing Framework

6. HOUSES OVER 170
INDICATORS THAT
MEASURE ELEMENTS OF
FOOD SYSTEMS, DRIVERS
AND OUTCOMES
DRIVERS of FOOD
SYSTEM CHANGES
24
INDICATORS
FOOD SUPPLY
CHAINS
30
INDICATORS
FOOD
ENVIRONMENTS
46 INDICATORS
INDIVIDUAL FACTORS
15 INDICATORS
CONSUMER
BEHAVIOR
0
INDICATORS
IYCF AND DIETARY
INTAKE
34
INDICATORS
NUTRITIONAL STATUS
AND NCDs
27
INDICATORS
Number of indicators is
approximate and we are constantly looking to
add quality data that has a value add
Indicators need to capture many countries, not
just high-income countries

7. Macro-view of food systems using visually
appealing graphics

8. Look at any indicator in various ways

9. The Sustainability of Tools
Many tools out there, but they all do different things depending
on the interests of their creators, and where they feel there is a
need for more visual information.
The question is, how much are these used to aid in decision
making? Especially in crisis situations.
The FS Dashboard struggles with:
• Gaps in data – no data, outdated data, closed data
• Ensuring visualizations are easy to understand
• Getting sub-national context to make it more useful in
national decision making

10. WWW. FOODSYSTEMSDASHBOARD.ORG