Actions to transform food systems under climate change
Through extensive research, analysis, and stakeholder consultation, the report aims to identify the high priority actions that we must collectively take now, for climate change adaptation and mitigation in food systems.
Taken together, these actions are the basis of the systemic transformation that is needed in food systems. We propose four action areas:
- Reroute farming and rural livelihoods to new trajectories to deal with greenhouse gas emissions, reduce inequality, address gender and social inclusion, and incentivize climate-resilient practices that meet dietary needs.
- De-Risk livelihoods, farms and value chains, reducing the impact of variable weather and extreme events through attention to inclusive early warning systems, adaptive safety nets, and climateinformed advisories and other services.
- Reduce emissions from diets and value chains, involving significant dietary shifts and massive reductions in food loss and waste.
- Realign policies, finance, support to social movements, and innovation to build more resilient and sustainable food systems. This action area cuts across the other three, with attention to realigning subsidies and trade, dealing with power inequities and marginalization, bringing in billions of dollars in private sector investment, transforming innovation systems, and underpinning and supporting social movements addressing climate, livelihoods and food systems.
Within these four action areas are 11 transformative actions. For each action, a goal (the “what”), mechanisms to achieve this goal (the “how”), and target geographic areas (the “where”) are identified. As for the “who,” everyone has a part to play in the transition. Roles for different stakeholder groups are also outlined.
As leaders of agencies and initiatives, the authors seek to mainstream relevant actions within their own organizations.
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