{"id":2098,"date":"2018-12-04T13:29:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography2\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2023-11-30T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:44:10","slug":"trade-food-policy-and-resilience-to-drought-risk","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/2018\/12\/04\/trade-food-policy-and-resilience-to-drought-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade, food policy and resilience to drought risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-537 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography2\/www-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/sites\/44\/2018\/10\/2017-lyndon-estes-clark-university.jpg\" alt=\"geographer Lyndon Estes\" width=\"920\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/www-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/sites\/44\/2018\/10\/2017-lyndon-estes-clark-university.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/www-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/sites\/44\/2018\/10\/2017-lyndon-estes-clark-university-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/www-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/sites\/44\/2018\/10\/2017-lyndon-estes-clark-university-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/www-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/sites\/44\/2018\/10\/2017-lyndon-estes-clark-university-246x150.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/www-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/sites\/44\/2018\/10\/2017-lyndon-estes-clark-university-420x256.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Understanding Cross-scale Interactions of Trade and Food Policy to Improve Resilience to Drought Risk<br \/>\n<strong>Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Lyndon Estes<br \/>\n<strong>Funding Agency:<\/strong> National Science Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Food security in regions affected by drought is influenced by a complex set of interactions among hydrological, agricultural,<br \/>\nand social systems. Previous models examining the impact of drought on food security have not incorporated food trade and<br \/>\nfood movements at fine spatial scales, yet these components are critical parts of regional food systems. In sub-Saharan Africa droughts and floods account for approximately 80% of fatalities and 70% of the economic losses that are due to natural hazards.<\/p>\n<p>This project\u2019s goal is to understand the effect of drought hazards in subsistence agriculture, using a novel integrative framework that merges data, models, and knowledge of drought risk and crop production, their interactions with the dynamics of trade-based and aid-based responses, and their effect on household food security and consumption.<\/p>\n<p>With collaborators at Princeton University, we shall address three questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the spatio-temporal scales of drought risk across Zambia and how does risk transfer into agricultural impacts<\/li>\n<li>What is the role of trade and domestic food policy on food security at local to national levels?<\/li>\n<li>Can drought impacts be more effectively reduced by integrating an understanding of policy and food transfers into an agricultural drought early warning system?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Understanding Cross-scale Interactions of Trade and Food Policy to Improve Resilience to Drought Risk Principal Investigator: Lyndon Estes Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Food security in regions affected by drought is influenced by a complex set of interactions among hydrological, agricultural, and social systems. 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