The agriculture and land-use section of the Water and Food Systems subsite maps how producers, cooperatives, agribusiness and land-use planners carry climate, pest, market and tenure risk, and which food-safety, plant and animal health, tenure and nature-disclosure instruments their records should crosswalk so that crop, livestock and land data can trigger anticipatory action and be read as evidence. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Context entry PROPOSED for the Nexus Standards registry.
NXS-STD-DC-000003Nexus Standards (2026). Agriculture and land use: area brief, Water and Food Systems (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/water-food/agriculture-sector-standards/ · UNI NXS-STD-DC-000003. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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The sectors and industries section of Water and Food Systems. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).
In scope 5
Out of scope 3
Jurisdictions Global; national ministries of agriculture and land administration
The Nexus Standards the area context entry lists; the registry row lists NS-0, NS-3, NS-9, NS-10, NS-14. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.
Status proposed · 12 rules stated. Read NS-0 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 7 rules stated. Read NS-10 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-14 · The rules for this area
Relations are register entries (NS-14), never conformance or equivalence statements; hover or focus a relation for its meaning. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here.
crosswalk2
IPC Technical Manual 3.1IPC Global Partners (FAO-hosted Global Support Unit)register · ipc-technical-manual-3-1Recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial DisclosuresTNFDregister · tnfd-recommendationscite4
Codex Alimentarius standards, guidelines and codes of practiceFAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commissionproposed register rowInternational Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs)International Plant Protection Convention (FAO)proposed register rowTerrestrial Animal Health CodeWorld Organisation for Animal Healthproposed register rowVoluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of TenureFAO Committee on World Food Securityproposed register rowClosed or paywalled standards appear by name and link only; any compatibility profile of one is built on simulated data and kept on protected pages until an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.
The working group may name closed standards later; they would be listed here by name and link only.
Hazards and threats 6
Sectors 1
Each coupling names the mechanism that links this area to another; select a card on the canvas to trace it. Mechanisms are stated in the context bank (PROPOSED).
Fig.RUNNING marks the area you are reading; DONE an area in the same subsite, QUEUED an area elsewhere and GATE a subsite reached. Tags give reading order only, never a status. Design, not a record.
Sources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
FAOSTATpending admission
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations · annual
CC BY 4.0 under the FAO Statistical Database Terms of Use (register row carries an older adapter string)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
FEWS NET food security outlooks and datapending admission
Famine Early Warning Systems Network · monthly
FEWS NET terms (to be recorded by Legal/IP)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
IPC food insecurity classificationspending admission
IPC Global Partners · per analysis cycle
IPC terms (to be recorded by Legal/IP)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
World Development Indicatorspending admission
World Bank · annual with quarterly updates
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
Season monitoring, loss and trigger records carrying record UNIs, source releases and correction history are readable by the GCRI Canada evidence pipeline, which decides admissibility under its own rules.
A cooperative or ministry programme that publishes its trigger clauses and attestation history gives GRF a record trail to consider for recognition; no recognition is implied.
Index-insurance and blended-finance proposals can cite verified trigger provenance and loss series when GRA assesses capital readiness under its own criteria.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Pick a sector, hazard family, capability and artifact type; the registry routes the standards and says why.
Pending admissionVersion and feed state per standard; every row reads source feed pending admission until a register row admits a feed.
Today · from the registryTest suites, conformance statements and attestations per standard; no attestation is recorded yet, and none would certify.
A console computes from the registry and shows its reasons; it never decides, approves or certifies.
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
Profile the agricultural production, loss and trigger records the sector exchanges, and crosswalk them to food-safety, plant and animal health, tenure and nature-disclosure instruments without reproducing them.
No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.
This area has a row in registry/subsites.yaml (status planned), so it carries five depth pages and the register crosswalk of its domains.
The rules of each listed standard, read through the specification reader.
Depth · CrosswalkEvery register entry in the area's domains, by relation, with the crosswalk graph.
Depth · Records and schemasScope, record, schema explorer and how a UNI resolves.
Depth · ConformanceClauses, evidence and attestations; no step is a certification.
Depth · ReadinessThe area beside the three pathways, as a matrix.
5 Nexus Standards · 3 domains · 22 external standards · 19 issuing bodies · 1 consumers. Relations are register entries (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite), never compliance claims; names belong to their stewards.
Crosswalk graph50 nodes and 62 links from registry/external-standards.yaml, registry/subsites.yaml and registry/consumers.yaml. Relations (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite) are register entries, never compliance claims.
The registry holds no geography for the area itself: areas are not places. The one geography it implies is where the bodies that issue the area's external standards sit.
| Body | Seat | Register entries |
|---|---|---|
| GHG Protocol | Washington, District of Columbia, United States | 2 |
| ISO/TC 207/SC 7 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| European Commission Joint Research Centre | Ispra, Italy | 1 |
| FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission | Rome, Italy | 1 |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| International Sustainability Standards Board (IFRS Foundation) | Frankfurt, Germany | 1 |
| IPC Global Partners (FAO-hosted Global Support Unit) | Rome, Italy | 1 |
| ISO/TC 34/SC 17 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| Network for Greening the Financial System | Paris, France | 1 |
| Science Based Targets initiative | London, United Kingdom | 1 |
| TNFD | London, United Kingdom | 1 |
| World Resources Institute and WBCSD (GHG Protocol) | Washington, District of Columbia, United States | 1 |
1 subsites: no geography in the registry (areas, not places) · 2 consumers: repositories, no geography · 19 Nexus Standards: documents, no geography · 7 issuing bodies without a fixed public seat, listed not drawn: Convention on Biological Diversity; IUCN; UN Statistical Commission; IOC-UNESCO Global Ocean Observing System; UNFCCC; International Plant Protection Convention; and more · Programme regions of the ecosystem coverage register: named, not drawn (no coordinates in the registry)
Standards globe12 issuing bodies with a public seat, 22 register entries, H3 cells at resolutions 1 to 4. Seats are city coordinates, not registry fields; subsites, consumers and standards have no geography, so none is drawn. Plate carrée still map; globe with script.
| Area on the sites | Artifact kinds | Governing standards | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food and agriculture (GCRI Canada field gateway; GRF and GRA counterparts) | data, dataset, report, map, documentation | NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-4, NS-5 | therisk.global/fields/food/ |
From the ecosystem coverage register: what the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) sites publish on this area, as claimed there and not evaluated here.
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them.
Plain links to the faculty pages of Risk Academy; no course, credential, recognition or endorsement is implied.
Risk Academy disciplines that teach Agriculture and land use, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
Propose a change, join the working group or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.
Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.