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Compound risk framework: Approach overview

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Compound Risk Framework (CRF)

Climate variability is widely impacting natural and human systems. We are increasingly exposed to compound and interrelated environmental, socioeconomic, and political crises. However, our approaches to these issues are often siloed and fragmented, rendering them inadequate. One of the many compound impacts is the escalating threat to food security. Here we propose a quantitative approach for developing a compound risk framework that can be used to compliment the monitoring of instability and fragility in countries of interest