Janetos Takes Part in USDA Meeting on Multiple Breadbasket Failure

Prof. Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently participated in a day-long meeting on multiple breadbasket failure sponsored by the University of Wisconsin, the U.S. Geospatial Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service. The meeting was held at the USDA’s offices in Washington, DC. Prof. Janetos presented research that he and John Patrick Connors, a Pardee Center post-doctoral associate, have been doing on the possible environmental and economic consequences of multiple breadbasket failure.

In March, Janetos and an interdisciplinary team of leading researchers authored a Pardee Center research report titled “The Risks of Multiple Breadbasket Failures in the 21st Century: A Science Research Agenda.” The report describes a science research agenda toward improved probabilistic modeling and prediction of multiple breadbasket failures and the potential consequences for global food systems.