New campaign aims to drive innovative solutions in food systems
Worldwide, unsustainable farming practices are damaging both the global environment and the health and wellbeing of people everywhere. At the same time, climate change is making our food systems more fragile, while the global population continues to rapidly increase. Solving both of these challenges requires more sustainable approaches to producing, consuming, and disposing of food.
A new campaign under The 100 Questions Initiative, led by the Governance Lab (The GovLab) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, in partnership with the Barilla Foundation, and the Center for European Policy Studies, aims to engage the wisdom of the crowd to drive innovative solutions. The Food Systems Sustainability domain seeks to identify the 10 most important questions that need to be answered to make food systems more sustainable.
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June 03, 2021 •
Flickr/Bo Nielsen An international cohort of civic tech groups has launched a new effort to collect public input around food systems sustainability, ultimately aiming to use the resultant data to drive new innovations.
This effort is taking place under The 100 Questions Initiative, which has an aim of helping innovators and technologists better define questions in order to “unlock the potential of data and data science,” the group writes on its website. This new campaign around food sustainability is being led by the Governance Lab (The GovLab) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. For the effort, The GovLab is partnering with Italy’s Bar
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