We are proud to co-host a workshop at this year's Tropentag held in Vienna, Austria. This in-person workshop jointly hosted by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and the ITT (Cologne University of Applied Sciences) aims to inform, discuss and identify potential utilization of food environment data for improving food and nutrition security.

Food environments are widely discussed in the debate on food systems transformation. They are measured using descriptive information like number of vendors, diversity of vendor types and prices for food in a specific geographic area. In this workshop we take the policy maker perspective and will raise the question which Food Environment metrics can easily assess how best to improve food environments, e.g. to reduce risks of malnutrition in all its forms. Other analytical aims relate to environmental sustainability and climate resilience. Participants are invited to bring in their expertise and experience and to broaden their networks.

After the introductory session (20 min) we will start with two key notes on ongoing works on food environment indicators (each 20 min) which will set the scene for a world café on food environment characteristics. The participants will discuss stakeholder demands on food system data and analysis in decision making for food system transformation (90 min)
The findings of the world café will be summarized and reported to the workshop participants for a final round of discussion. (30 min)

At the end of the workshop the participants have a comprehensive understanding of the application of food environment data for food system transformation.

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