Cross-Platform Shared Infrastructure
Global Risk, Food Security, and NRM are three organizational and funding domains — three PDDs, three sponsor relationships, three sets of named hubs — sitting on top of what should be one shared system: one data layer, one capability layer, one set of MCP-wrapped tools. “Global Risk Platform” describes who scoped and funded a capability, not a separate system a user has to go find it in.
Five sharing points, built once
| Shared signal | Global Risk | Food Security | NRM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deforestation / land-disturbance alerts GFW GLAD-L/S2, RADD, DIST-ALERT | — | EUDR compliance module | Protect Nature module |
| Climate & hazard data Drought indices, precipitation, temperature | Hazard models | Climate-adjusted calendars, yield forecasts | — |
| Land cover & change | Exposure layer (assets + nature) | Field/crop-type layer (cropland baseline) | Platform backbone by definition |
| GEOGloWS streamflow/discharge | Flood hazard module | Irrigation-water-availability | Water-resource / wetland monitoring |
| NASA Harvest methodology | — | In-season yield estimation (primary) | Cropland classification (adjacent) |
Every future build decision defaults to “build this once, in the shared system, tagged with which domain scoped it” — not “build this for platform X, then figure out sharing later.”
Common audience model
The Global Risk PDD's five user groups are adopted as the confirmed, shared audience model for all three platforms, rather than each platform inventing its own list:
Governments
National and subnational.
Development partners
World Bank, FAO, WFP, UNDP, ADPC, RECOFTC.
NGOs / civil society
Private sector
Commodities, insurance.
SERVIR hubs
As internal users.
Hub footprint — a real mismatch, flagged not hidden
| Platform | Lead hub | Co-lead / named hubs | Where real use cases exist today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Risk | East Asia and the Pacific | Co-lead: West Africa; supporting: South Asia, Mesoamerica, Tropical South America | Air quality (SEA), flood (GEOGloWS regions) |
| Food Security | Not explicitly named | South Asia, Tropical South America, Mesoamerica ("Associated Hubs") | East & Southern Africa (9 cases), Tropical South America (6) — not the named associated hubs |
| NRM / LCEM | South Asia (explicit) | East Asia & Pacific, SIG-NAL | Tropical South America (renamed from Amazonia in 2025 — §09), East Asia & Pacific — not the starting hub |
Resolved (Decision #11): the Service Inventory's CATIE-led "Central America" hub and the PDDs' "Mesoamerica" hub are the same hub under two names — treat "Central America" as informal shorthand going forward.