Representatives from nearly 200 countries, including a delegation from MIT, met in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt at the COP27 UN climate change conference to negotiate a new international climate agreement.
The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability will study the implications of climate change on food security as they relate to trade. It is supported by Community Jameel and led by Greg Sixt and Kenneth Strzepek of MIT J-WAFS and the FACT Alliance.
MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) recently awarded five graduate fellowships to MIT PhD students whose innovative research pushes forward transformational water and food solutions on a global scale.
MIT associate professor Mary Gehring is using mutagenesis to increase genetic diversity in plants, which could lead to the development of climate-resilient traits like drought resistance.