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What is a food shock? What do we mean by food systems? Here you’ll find clear explanations of terms and concepts frequently used in the Food Shocks Project. This resource is designed to demystify the specialized language of our research, education, and extension efforts, making it accessible to everyone interested in understanding and contributing to the resilience of food systems. Whether you're a student, researcher, or curious reader, this glossary will help you grasp the key ideas that drive our work.
There may be multiple dimensions to the definition of shocks. This definition may change as we go along.
The shock may be isolated or systemic and the source may be political, economic, social, technological, environmental or legal (using the PESTEL analysis). The shock may disrupt the supply or demand side of the supply chain. The scope of the shock may be local, regional, national, or global. The risk associated with the shock (how much we should pay attention to it) can be associated with its risk priority number which is based on the shock’s impact, frequency, and detectability (Griffis and Whipple, 2012).
These are shocks discussed in the project: pandemics, food borne pathogens, climate change. These shocks could be concurrent or sequential. Multiple shocks could be within a production season or within two production seasons. The time period discussed was to start as of 2020 (COVID Pandemic). However, Objective 2, will look for weather events that occurred as of 2010, but may look as far back as 2008. Modeling for the benchmark scenario for Objective 4 will take an average of 2017-2019.