ATIO | CALS

For better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life, leaving no one behind

It is increasingly recognized that the world must accelerate and reorient transformation towards more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems (AFS) for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life, leaving no one behind. AFS requires increased attention to developing, adapting and diffusing impactful science, technology and innovation (STI). Current levels and patterns of STI uptake are inadequate to facilitate needed agrifood system transformations, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Moreover, the descriptive and evaluative evidence on current and emergent AFS STI is also insufficiently well understood to permit intentional management of STI to meet the multiple objectives of future AFS: efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable.

Project overview

Agrifood Systems Technologies and Innovations Outlook (ATIO) will be a biennial FAO flagship publication to disseminate information on science, technology and innovation in agrifood systems – which include food production, storage, post-harvest handling, transportation, processing, distribution and consumption – around the world.

Led by Chris Barrett, this project will curate existing information on the current, measurable state of science, technology and innovation and upcoming changes, as well as their transformative potential, to inform evidence-based policy dialogue and decisions, including on investments.

Latest news

The Cornell Chronicle

Cornell to co-lead UN agency’s new agrifood initiative

Ideas that sprouted from a pre-pandemic panel discussion at Cornell now inform an initiative aimed to meet looming global food needs in a healthy, equitable, resilient and sustainable manner.

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FAO

FAO introduces the Agrifood Systems Technologies and Innovations Outlook

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) unveiled details and hosted a discussion on its upcoming Agrifood Systems Technologies and Innovations Outlook, a new knowledge product designed to inform evidence-based policy dialogue and decisions, including on investments.

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Nature

Farming feeds the world. We desperately need to know how to do it better

Interventions designed to improve agricultural practices often lack a solid evidence base. A new initiative could change that.

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Professor Christopher B. Barrett speaking at a podium.

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu holds ATIO report

man squatting in field of vegetables looking at iPad

Project Team

Chris Barrett

Principal Investigator
Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Professor, Departments of Economics and of Global Development
Cornell Atkinson Fellow