Food security · Climate resilience · Sustainable systems
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Impact at a glance
What the alliance has built together
A live view of the funding won, the researchers supported, and the institutions working side by side across the network.
25
Member institutions
Universities and labs across 14 countries.
6
Fact alliance research collaborations
From smallholder systems to global food-trade modelling.
6
Publications
Scholarly work published from the FACT Alliance.
3
Students co-advised
Doctoral and Masters researchers mentored through collaborative projects.
FACT Alliance Research Collaborations
Excellence in convergence research and scholarly publications advancing food system solutions globally.
Research Projects
Convergence research for innovative food systems solutions
Research Project
Overview of evidence on agroforestry's role in biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation in low- and middle-income countries
Led by University of Aberdeen with collaborating institutions: Juno Evidence Alliance
CABI
University of Newcastle
MIT J-WAFS
The project was an AI-supported systemic mapping to evaluate the extent and distribution of evidence reporting the impacts of agroforestry systems on biodiversi…
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Research Project
Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) Initiative – Evaluating the potential for fonio as an underutilized crop
Havos.ai
Shamba Center
CIRAD
MIT J-WAFS
BOKU University
Workshop led by Michael Hauser and Greg Sixt with a team from the Shamba Center
The project supported a stakeholder workshop and provided analytical input on opportunities for integrating the underutilized crop, fonio, to support sustainabl…
Research Project
USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security Evidence Aggregation for Programmatic Approaches (REAPER) project
MIT J-WAFS
MID D-Lab
Tufts University
3ie
Notre Dame University
In April of 2021, the FACT Alliance embarked on a project with USAID, co-led by J-WAFS and MIT D-Lab, that uses a combination of machine learning and traditiona…
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Research Project
Climate-Resilient Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
MIT J-WAFS
Industrial Economics
World Bank
Kenneth Strzepek et al.
J-WAFS Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek and past J-WAFS visiting scholar Brent Boehlert present a series of guidance and technical notes that offer insights …
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Research Project
Catalyzing sustainable food and climate systems transitions in the Lake Victoria Basin
MIT J-WAFS
BOKU University
Lake Victoria Basin Commission
CIFOR-ICRAF
Greg Sixt · Michael Hauser · Immaculate Edel
Funded by MIT J-WAFS, this seed project applied the FACT Convergence Research Framework to advise a regional intergovernmental stakeholder organization, the Lak…
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Research Project
The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability
MIT J-WAFS
University of Oxford
IFPRI
Colorado State University
Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research
United Arab Emirates University
Project Leadership: Greg Sixt (PI) · Ken Strzepek (Co-PI)
Funded by Community Jameel, this index measures countries’ dependence on global food trade and imports, and how regional-scale threats like climate change might…
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Publications
Publications from the FACT Alliance
Publication
A new convergent science framework for food system sustainability in an uncertain climate
MIT J-WAFS
ICRISAT
BOKU University
Tufts University
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
USDA ARS
University of Pretoria
Ottawa Research and Development Centre
McGill University
University of Aberdeen
Columbia University
Gregory N. Sixt · Michael Hauser · Nicole Tichenor Blackstone · Alejandra Engler · Jerry Hatfield · Sheryl L. Hendriks · Samuel Ihouma · Chandra Madramootoo · Renee J. Robins · Pete Smith · Lewis H. Ziska · Patrick Webb
The complexity and interconnectivity of food systems and climate requires new thinking and research designs that better address the real-world challenges of sec…
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Publication
The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability: Methodological Framework
MIT J-WAFS
IFPRI
University of Oxford
Colorado State University
Kenneth Strzepek · Gregory N. Sixt · Christopher Maynard · Keith Wiebe · Timothy Thomas · Anna Murgatroyd · Jasper Verschuur · Dana Hoag · Jensen Fiskin · Jim Hall
To date, there has existed no index that offers a holistic understanding of the current dynamics of food trade and how
different global change scenarios are li…
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Publication
Mapping evidence on agroforestry’s role in biodiversity and climate change mitigation and adaptation
CABI-Juno Evidence Alliance
University of Helsinki
University of Newcastle
University of Aberdeen
MIT J-WAFS
Shareen K. D. Sanders1 · Sini Savilaakso · Emma J. Welsh · Linda Errington · Aakar Shah · Khadiza Begum · Mohamed Abdalla · Jacqualyn Eales · Gregory N. Sixt · Jaron Porciello · and Pete Smith
Agroforestry has been promoted as one solution to make agriculture more ecologically sustainable. While
research has examined its effects on biodiversity and o…
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Publication
Bilateral Trade Welfare Impacts of India’s Export Ban of Non-Basmati Rice Using the Global Partial Equilibrium Simulation Model (GSIM)
United Arab Emirates University
Colorado State University
MIT J-WAFS
IFPRI
Eihab Fathelrahman · Raeda Osman · Dana Loyd Keske Hoag · Gregory N. Sixt · Kenneth Strzepek
India, the world’s leading rice exporter, banned the export of non-Basmati white rice, accounting for 25% of its total exports (or 10% of the global rice trade)…
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Publication
Macro-Economic Assessment of Ethiopian Food Security: Trade, Domestic Production, and Vulnerability through the Jameel Index
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)
Tadele Mamo · Samuel Diro · Tesfaye Solomon · Girma Mamo
This report integrates analysis from the Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability into a mixed-methods approach to provide an economy-wide assessment of Et…
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Publication
Economy-Wide Impacts of International Trade and Climate Shocks: Insights for Malawi
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) Malawi
MwAPATA Institute Malawi
Innocent Pangapanga-Phiri · Joyce Grevulo-Minofu
This paper uses a Computable General Equilibrium model calibrated to Malawi's 2022 Social Accounting Matrix to show that climate-induced productivity shocks pos…
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