Why it matters, infrastructure system
Food system
Production, processing, distribution and consumption of food.
- Depends on
- 2
- Depended on by
- 0
- Metrics
- 2
Neighbourhood: what depends on it (left), what it depends on (right)
- Candidate
- Hypothesized
- Mechanism supported
- Causally supported
- Established relation
Systems that would feel a shortage
Downstream: what depends on it
Nothing stored depends on this entity.
Inputs it cannot do without
Upstream: what it depends on
Food system requires input Crop production3 evidenceEstablished relation
Food system depends on Crop production.
Mechanism
Cereals, oilseeds, fruit and vegetables come from crop production directly and, through animal feed, indirectly.
Evidence
- documentFAO, FAOSTATfao.orgCrop production, food balances and fertilizer use by country.checked 2026-09-07
- sourceFAOSTAT (seeded source)checked 2026-09-07
- metriccereal-yield
- Status
- established_identity_or_engineering_relation
- Reviewer confidence
- 0.99
- Stated strength
- 1.00
- Lag
- not stated
- Version
- curated_seed_v1
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-07
Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.
Food system requires input Freight transport2 evidenceEstablished relation
Food system depends on Freight transport.
Mechanism
Food moves from farm to processor to store by truck, rail and ship; without freight the supply chain stops at the farm gate.
Evidence
- documentU.S. EPA, Sustainable management of food: basicsepa.govFood supply chain from production through distribution to consumption.checked 2026-09-07
- documentFAO, FAOSTATfao.orgCrop production, food balances and fertilizer use by country.checked 2026-09-07
- Status
- established_identity_or_engineering_relation
- Reviewer confidence
- 0.95
- Stated strength
- 0.90
- Lag
- not stated
- Version
- curated_seed_v1
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-07
Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.
Measured, from the catalog
Linked metrics
- Cereal yieldObserved
indicates WLD
3,954.95kg per hectareperiod 2024 - World populationObserved
indicates WLD
8.22Bpeopleperiod 2025
Named on the edges that depend on it
Substitutes
No substitute is named for this entity on any stored edge.
Derived from curated edges
Bottleneck centrality
- Score
- 0.00
- Downstream entities
- 0
- Direct dependents
- 0
Sum over every entity downstream (within six hops) of the strongest path weight to it, where each edge weighs its stated strength divided by one plus its named substitutes. A graph statistic over curated edges, not an observation. Computed 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC.
Curated paths this entity is part of
Chains
Names that resolve to this node
Aliases
- agrifood system
- food
- food supply
slug food-system, updated 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC