Global Shocks and the Future of Food System Resilience

Recent global disruptions have highlighted the vulnerability of interconnected food systems, where pressures on production, trade, and inputs can quickly spread across regions. Although the impacts vary locally, the repercussions are global, visible in market instability and supply-chain stress. Addressing these challenges calls for closer cooperation among partners on both sides of the Atlantic, with a focus on shared analysis, coordinated responses, and long-term resilience.

The discussion brings together Thomas Pogge (Yale University) whose work on global justice and institutional responsibility offers an ethical lens on food system vulnerabilities, and Jonas Jägermeyr (Columbia University), a leading climate and agricultural systems scientist focusing on global risks to food production. Moderated by Max Gruenig (Pocacito), the conversation connects analytical, scientific, and policy perspectives on shared global challenges.

Biographies

The discussion brings together Thomas Pogge (Yale University) whose work on global justice and institutional responsibility offers an ethical lens on food system vulnerabilities, and Jonas Jägermeyr (Columbia University), a leading climate and agricultural systems scientist focusing on global risks to food production. Moderated by Max Gruenig (Pocacito), the conversation connects analytical, scientific, and policy perspectives on shared global challenges.

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Jonas Jägermeyr is a Associate Research Scientist, Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) at Columbia University. As a central initiative within AgMIP, he co-lead AgGRID and the Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison (GGCMI) and is the coordinator of the agriculture sector in ISIMIP, a cross-sectoral model intercomparison project. Using global mechanistic crop modeling, Jonas addresses questions related to climate change impacts on agricultural systems, the role of extreme weather events, end-of-season yield forecasting systems, developing pathways for attaining the SDGs, and how to feed 10 billion people within environmental limits. A recent project advanced the understanding of implications of a regional nuclear conflict for global food productivity, trade, and availability.

Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science as well as co-founder of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), an international network aiming to enhance the impact of scholars, teachers and students on global poverty, and of Incentives for Global Health, a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org). His recent publications include Designing in Ethics, co-edited, Cambridge 2017; Global Tax Fairness, co-edited, Oxford 2016; Politics as Usual, Polity 2010; World Poverty and Human Rights, 2nd edition, Polity 2008; Global Justice and Global Ethics, co-edited, Paragon House 2008; John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice, Oxford 2007; and Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right, edited, Oxford & UNESCO 2007.

Max Gruenig is a climate and energy economist with expertise and experience in the US and Europe and one of the co-founders of POCACITO. He also lectures at the Georgetown University in Washington D.C. From 2021 to 2025, he was a senior fellow with climate think tank E3G in Washington DC. Max Gruenig was President of the Ecologic Institute USA from 2015 to 2020 and worked for the Ecologic Institute Berlin from 2007 to 2018.

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