Columbia Climate School's Office of Faculty Affairs is pleased to announce Dr. Kyle Davis of the University of Delaware will deliver our next research seminar, "Towards food system sustainability in a changing climate," on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Forum Room 301.
If you're attending in person, you must register and be a CUID holder.
If joining on Zoom, RSVP here. You will receive the Zoom link the day before the event. If you cannot access this link, please email [email protected] to be added to the Zoom list. Light refreshments will be served.
ABSTRACT:
Sustainable food systems aim to provide sufficient and nutritious food, while maximizing climate resilience and minimizing environmental impacts. Yet historical practices, notably the Green Revolution, prioritized the single objective to maximize production over other nutritional and environmental dimensions. With a focus on the food-water-climate nexus, my research explores ways to maintain humanity's achievements while overcoming past shortcomings of global food systems.
BIO:
Dr. Davis is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Data Science at the University of Delaware (UD). His work focuses on food system sustainability and environmental change from local to national (India, Nigeria, China, the US) to global scales. His research employs data-driven mixed methods to quantify environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability and to explore food system solutions for improving incomes, nutrition, natural resource use, and climate adaptation. His other work investigates human-environment interactions related to: the socio-environmental effects of large-scale land investments; variability and shock propagation through food supply chains; and the interface of human migration and environmental change. Prior to joining UD in 2019, he was a Data Science Fellow and Earth Institute Fellow at Columbia University (New York) and a Nature Net Science Fellow with The Nature Conservancy. He earned his PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia and holds a BS in Biochemistry from UD.
