The Global Food Systems Institute (GFSI) supports faculty, staff, students, and Extension professionals engaged in international agricultural development including teaching, research, and outreach to create effective food systems.

Our vision is to become a globally preeminent and transformative community for advancing the frontier of knowledge and practice for food and fiber systems.

Our mission is to engage in participatory research-based solutions that enhances the nutritional, health, and livelihoods, of global citizens and the environment through scientifically improved food and fiber systems.

We value transformative teaching, research, and Extension education that is interdisciplinary and based upon trusted and unbiased research findings. We seek to create transdisciplinary research and educational experiences through thematic areas and cross-cutting approaches that are led by subject matter experts.

Our thematic areas include:

• Global and local food and nutrition security
• Food production and distribution systems
• Health, Economics, livelihoods, and society
• Food systems and the environment

Our cross-cutting approaches include:

• Metrics and tools for food system analysis, monitoring, evaluation, and decision
• Inclusion and equity
• Capacity development for food systems
• Adapting and building resilience to emerging issues
• Enabling environments
• Community engagement

We support a variety of projects including:

• Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems (LSIL)
• CAGED Project: Campylobacter Genomics And Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
• Seafood Waste & Resource Use
• Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT)
• Urban Food Markets in Africa: Incentivizing Food Safety Using a Pull-Push Approach
• Chakula Salama: a Risk-Based Approach To Reducing Foodborne Disease and Increasing Production of Safe Foods in Kenya