Seminar: J-WAFS’s Work on Water, Food, Climate, and the Environment

The Knight Science Journalism program at MIT is pleased to welcome Renee J. Robins, J-WAFS Executive Director and Greg Sixt, Director of the J-WAFS-led Food and Climate Systems Transformation (FACT) Alliance, andJ-WAFS Research Manager for Climate and Food Systems for a seminar on J-WAFS and the timely work they do in water, food, climate, and the environment.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT is an Institute-wide effort that fuels research, innovation, and cross-disciplinary collaborations focused on water and food systems to meet human need.

Renee will provide an overview of J-WAFS operations, including grant programming, research projects, and student engagement activities. Greg will speak about his work leading the FACT Alliance, a network of over 20 global member institutions who are transforming the sustainability of food systems through collaborative, actionable research. He will discuss FACT’s inaugural research project, the Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability, which is building a model to predict global food demand, supply balance, and bilateral trade under different likely future scenarios, with a focus on climate change.

Please contact Learning and Events Coordinator Claire Sadar if you are interested in attending.