Measuring Food System Resilience: Integrating nutrient availability and trade exposure into SDG-aligned public dashboards

The research reviews the connection identified between nutrient availability, food system resiliency, and trade exposure, including how food systems can be consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 2: Zero Hunger. The analysis is done based on an analysis of nutrient content of food types and their contribution towards meeting daily nutritional requirements, including Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and Calcium. These findings indicate that the type of food such as vegetables and fruits offer a balanced and large quantity of the nutrients that are essential whereas a particular food is more likely to be dependent on the required nutrient such as seafood. The use of nutrient dependency to model the trade exposure puts emphasis on that food systems with a narrower sample size of nutrients, including food systems that are heavy importation dependers, are more susceptible to global trade disruption.

The results suggest the significance of combining nutrient availability to trade exposure to enhance and understand food system resilience. It is important to align the food systems with the SDG goals so as to achieve the aim of ensuring that populations are fed healthy food despite the international challenges, including climate change and economic instabilities. Research posits that incorporation of real-time trade data and climate resilience indicators in SDG-oriented reporting public dashboards has a potential of improving decision-making and improving food system resilience. In future studies, it is worth considering these variables in order to come up with a more holistic framework of monitoring and improving food systems that eventually will lead to the provision of global foods and food security.