Understanding the impact of climate change on food systems
Resources
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Enhancing Sustainability and Resilience to Effects of Climate Change in City Region Food SystemsPDF
Today, about 55 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68 percent by 2050. The majority of this growth will be in Africa and Southeast Asia. The rapid urbanization and the estimated nine billion world population by 2050 creates...
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Integrating agro-ecological approaches to increase resilience to climate change and improve sustainable food system in West Africa and the SahelPDF
The role agro-ecology plays in dealing with the food and climate crises, by enhancing local biodiversity and natural resource conservation, is increasingly clear. It responds to the triple challenge facing the agriculture sector: poverty eradication, increased productivity, and sustainability....
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Climate change, biodiversity and nutrition nexusVideo
The video shows the connection between climate change, biodiversity loss, and multiple forms of malnutrition. As well as how our actions and policies can strengthen or destroy these connections.
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Online exchange forum. Building climate-resilient food systems based on the ten agroecology elementsPDF
This document summarizes the key points and questions addressed during the online sessions held on 27 October 2020.
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Science, practice, and policy expert dialogue on food systems and resilience: Key priorities for aligning global ecosystem restoration, ...PDF
The policy brief is a reflection upon key take home messages from the constellation of thinking and events in 2021 through a lens of science, practice, and policy with concrete examples from countries participating the Resilient Food Systems Programme. These include; the UN Food Systems Summit;...
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Climate change impacts and adaptation options in the agrifood systemPDF
This publication is a brief summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sixth Assessment Report. It reports the new directions and themes in AR6, the observed and projected impacts and adaptation actions, technologies and practices.
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Strengthening gender-responsive climate policies and actions in agrifood value chainsPDF
Climate change can increase gender inequalities: while men can diversify into other commodities or migrate to other regions in search of economic opportunities in response to climate impacts, women often have more limited options, and therefore less resilience, due to their domestic...
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The State of Food and Agriculture 2016: Climate change, agriculture and food securityPDF
The impact of climate change on agriculture and the implications for food security are already alarming. This report identifies strategies, financing opportunities, and data and information needs. It also describes transformative policies and institutions that can overcome barriers to...
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Climate change and food systems: Global assessments and implications for food security and tradePDF
This book describes how global warming will impact where and how food is produced, and discusses the significant consequences for food security, health and nutrition, water scarcity and climate adaptation. The book also highlights the implications for global food trade.
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Indigenous Peoples’ food systems. Insights on sustainability and resilience from the front line of climate changePDF
This publication provides an overview of the common and unique sustainability elements of Indigenous Peoples' food systems, in terms of natural resource management, access to the market, diet diversity, indigenous peoples’ governance systems, and links to traditional knowledge and indigenous...
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How to feed the world in times of pandemics and climate change? Opportunities for innovation in livestock systemsPDF
Progress towards zero hunger must be protected from the dual challenges of pandemics and climate change. By countering the destabilizing forces of pandemics and climate change through better mitigation and preparedness efforts can see livestock systems contribute to a sustainable future by...
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Making better policies for food systemsWebsite
Food systems around the world face a triple challenge: providing food security and nutrition for a growing global population; supporting livelihoods for those working along the food supply chain; and contributing to environmental sustainability. Better policies hold tremendous promise for making...
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Managing climate change risks in food systemsPDF
This chapter of the book "Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India" identifies the pathways through which climate change will impact food security as essential to creating robust food systems. After analysing the impacts on crop and livestock productivity, on health and labour productivity...
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Actions to transform food systems under climate changePDF
Our food systems are failing us. Nothing short of a systemic transformation of food systems is required if we are to feed the world’s current and future population sustainably under climate change. The report identify the high priority actions that we must collectively take now, for climate...
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Climate change, biodiversity and nutrition nexus: Evidence and emerging policy and programming opportunitiesPDF
This paper identifies entry points within agri-food systems to improve biodiversity and diets, two levers that can be used to enhance nutrition and optimize environmental sustainability while ensuring social equity, especially of the most vulnerable people. It also presents recommendations for...
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Repurposing Agricultural Policies and Support : Options to Transform Agriculture and Food Systems to Better Serve the Health of People, Economies, ...Website
The report finds that repurposing a portion of government spending on agriculture each year to develop and disseminate more emission-efficient technologies for crops and livestock could reduce overall emissions from agriculture by more than 40 percent. Meanwhile, millions of hectares of land...
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Cultivating Inner Capacities for Regenerative Food SystemsWebsite
Based on the latest evidence, the Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA) Action Report presents the rationale for the cultivation of inner capacities as a crucial complementary approach to activate food systems transformation. Firstly, it presents the need for a complementary approach to...
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Sustainable and circular bioeconomy in the climate agenda: Opportunities to transform agrifood systemsPDF
The bioeconomy offers opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions along the agrifood system by replacing fossil-based resources and processes with biological ones, from microbiome innovations, biofertilizers and biopesticides, to alternative proteins, bio-based plastics and textiles,...
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Climate change impacts on crops in Sri LankaPDF
This report presents insights about future climate change impacts on six crops (rice, maize, green gram, big onion, chilli and potato), selected according to a wide range of criteria: contribution to gross domestic product, relevance to food security and role as staple food, importance for...
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Small-scale producers in sustainable agrifood systems transformationPDF
This paper analyzes the diversity of small-scale producers and demonstrates how understanding small-scale production can have consequences for how policies and investments are directed and how they impact small-scale producer livelihoods. The diverse roles and functions of small-scale production...
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Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus to increase food systems' resilience to climate change and conflict's cascading effects in the ...PDF
This series of technical webinars is organized to leverage the knowledge and expertise of a network of researchers, development practitioners and decision-makers. The webinars aim at strengthening knowledge sharing and stimulating debate around themes relevant to food systems transformation in...
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Food Systems, Nutrition and Climate ChangeWebsite
This World Bank-FAO Knowledge Session Series explores the nexus between agrifood systems, nutrition, and climate change. It provides the opportunity to examine how policies and actions on the ground can make agrifood systems more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable, enabling healthy...
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Climate and nutrition considerations in urban food systemsWebsite
This World Bank-FAO Knowledge Session Series explores the nexus between agrifood systems, nutrition, and climate change. It provides the opportunity to examine how policies and actions on the ground can make agrifood systems more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable, enabling healthy...
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Beyond urban: city-region food systems for resilient and sustainable developmentWebsite
A large share of the world’s population lives in urban areas, making cities a major cause of climate change. Food is especially relevant in this regard, calling for strategies that make food systems contribute to urban resilience.
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Kind of Activities | Understanding basic concepts |
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Geographic Focus | Global |
Collection Updated | November 2024 |