CAREER: Advancing climate resilience of food supply chains through research and education

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Abstract

Climate risks impact food supply chains. As the geographic separation grows between food production and consumption, food supply chains are increasingly exposed to local and distant climatic disruptions. Current research has focused mostly on the production of a few staple crops, leaving substantial gaps in understanding domestic and international climate risks to an array of U.S. food supply chains. This project will pioneer new approaches to systematically detect, attribute, and track individual climate disruptions to food production along the entire food supply chain to locations of consumption in the U,S. Research findings will increase national capabilities to identify and track climate-associated food supply chain disruptions, thereby supporting investments and policies to enhance the resilience and competitiveness of the U.S. economy and protecting national food security against climate-related disruptions. The project will support a comprehensive education plan to achieve widespread reach at K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels and local, state, and national scales. The overarching question addressed by this project is: How, where, and to what extent do climate-related disruptions to food production travel through domestic and international supply chains to affect U.S. food supply? This project aims to create a quantitative framework to detect, track, and attribute climate disruptions throughout the entire food supply chain and the full food basket. The centra

Key facts

NSF award ID
2441484
Awardee
University of Delaware (DE)
SAM.gov UEI
T72NHKM259N3
PI
Kyle F Davis
Primary program
01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
CAS-Critical Aspects of Sustainability, CAREER-Faculty Erly Career Dev, EXP PROG TO STIM COMP RES
Estimated total
$598,516
Funds obligated
$598,516
Transaction type
Standard Grant
Period
09/01/2025 → 08/31/2030