There is no 1.5C future without moving away from industrial food and farming systems. Today's industrial food systems account for up to one third of global greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, those very same systems are gravely threatened by the impacts of the climate crisis, threatening global food security and the livelihoods of farm- and foodworkers around the world. Radically changing the way we produce, distribute, and consumer our food is the only route to a more resilient future.
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that sustainable food systems - founded on principles such as agroecology and food sovereignty - could create the social and environmental resilience we need to withstand climate shocks and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Over the coming months and years, IPES-Food aims to put the transition to sustainable food systems high on the agenda of international climate negotiations, and at the centre of debate about the climate crisis.
Our Special Report takes aim at a growing debt crisis that could plunge millions more into hunger – and the critical role of unsustainable food systems in driving rising debt and food insecurity.
The world faces interlinked crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, land degradation and desertification, and hunger. We need to tackle them together. Ahead of CBD COP15, we pull together the facts and figures on how agroecology – an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable approach to food and farming with nature – can help tackle multiple crises.
COP27, this year's climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh, will finally begin to address the link between food and climate. Join IPES-Food for a series of side events covering numerous aspects of the food-climate nexus, including climate finance for agroecology, urban food policies, the need for multi-level action on food, a just protein transition and more.
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This infosheet provides data and case study examples of how agroecology can succeed in both mitigating and adapting to climate change - by being more resilient to climate and environmental shocks, producing high yields, improving food security and nutrition, and increasing farmer income. Agroecology will prove paramount to our ability to mitigate and adapt to a rapidly changing climate.
The Glasgow Food and Climate Declaration brings together local and regional authorities from across the world to speak with a unified voice in committing to putting into practice integrated food policies to tackle the climate emergency.
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With 44% of the world’s farms located in drylands, the threat of desertification to global food security and livelihoods is significant. The UNCCD has recognized agroecology as one of the most cost-effective approach to protect and restore farmland. Ahead of UNCCD COP15, IPES-Food shares insights on the link between agroecology and combatting desertification, and success stories from around the world to restore land using agroecological practices.
Reacting to the publication of the IPCC report on report on the mitigation of climate change, IPES-Food experts said, we are barrelling towards catastrophic levels of global heating - and our industrial food system is a major culprit. Yet right now, almost no government has plans in their national climate strategies to transform food systems.
Reacting to today's publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the impacts of climate change on nature and people, experts from IPES-Food are calling for fundamental reform of our food systems to avoid unprecedented hunger.
At UN climate change negotations in Glasgow, 45 governments pledged to take urgent action to move towards more sustainable food systems. However, few of the commitments move beyond a business-as-usual approach.
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