Building a Better Food System: A Community-Informed Approach to Understanding and Transforming Food Systems

This brief show we’re using systems modeling to work closely with communities to address complex food issues. We have applied this approach across four continents: agricultural finance in Uganda, food security in Vietnam and Cambodia, public health in Puerto Rico, healthy food access in Indiana and Mississippi, school feeding in Haiti, and urban food resilience in Cincinnati and Washington DC.

Author

• Global Food Institute, The George Washington University

Language

• English

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.4079/GFI.2026.02

Keyword

• Food System, resilience, community, policy, data and modeling

Date created

• 2026

Type of Work

• Report

License

• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Global Food Institute

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/ms35t961x