Transforming Food Systems Under a Changing Climate
Over 100 partners have come together in a new initiative to identify pathways for food systems transformation.
Action AreasAbout The InitiativeElements of a comprehensive action plan to transform food systems under climate change
The initiative focuses on six elements of a transformation, explained below.
Empowering farmer and consumer organizations, women and youth
Collective actions by farmers and consumers are key to driving transformational change in food systems. At the same time, actions are needed to create conducive enabling environments that encourage producers, business owners, researchers, investors and policymakers to innovate in ways that promote gender equality and opportunities for youth. This element focuses on lesson learning from actions that build capacity and empower farmers, consumers, women and youth and their networks as part of the efforts to drive demand-driven solutions.
Digitally enabled climate-informed services
Agriculture is behind many sectors in the application of information and communication tools. This element focuses on addressing this gap, and generating lessons for application of digital tools, disruptive technologies and big data, in extension, early response systems and adaptive safety nets.
Climate-resilient and low-emission practices and technologies
Technologies and practices which enhance resilience and enable farmers to take low emissions development pathways are crucial, and the focus of this element is to identify emerging innovations and lessons from their application, including innovative ideas for scaling up technologies and practices.
Innovative finance to leverage public and private sector investments
This element focuses on mobilizing the finance needed to drive a food systems transformation, identifying financial mechanisms to de-risk private capital (for example, blended finance), including incentives for technology uptake.
Reshaping supply chains, food retail, marketing and procurement
This element takes cognizance of the need for system-wide actions to drive transformation, and focuses on reshaping supply chains from farm to fork, including new models of business-to-business coordination, new diets and consumer choices and efforts to manage food loss and waste.
Fostering enabling policies and institutions
This element recognizes the central and complementary role that enabling policies and institutions play to support transformation. The focus will include innovative approaches to policy design and implementation, land governance and reforms, and trade rules, among others.
Catalyzing action
To successfully achieve a transformation in food systems under climate change, we need to go beyond business-as-usual. Building on the 6 elements of the action plan, we have identified 5 areas with the potential to redefine the way food systems function.
These five areas became the work packages of the Initiative, which commissioned a paper on each area. The papers bring together a wide range of partners to deliver key messages for these areas and galvanize action in them.
- Lindsay C Stringer
- Evan DG Fraser
- David Harris
- Christopher Lyon
- Laura Pereira
- Caroline FM Ward
- Elisabeth Simelton
- Tonya Rawe
- Marta Antonelli
- Allison Chatrchyan
- Terry Clayton
- Jessica Fanzo
- Julian Gonsalves
- Alan Matthews
- Danielle Nierenberg
- Monika Zurek
- Sonja Vermeulen
- Toby Park
- Colin K Khoury
- Jonathan Mockshell
- Christophe Béné
- Huong Trinh Thi
- Brent Heard
- Bee Wilson
- Mario Herrero Acosta
- Philip Thornton
- Daniel Mason-D'Croz
- Jeda Palmer
- et al. (see report for full list)
- Alberto Millan
- Benhan Limketkai
- Serena Guarnaschelli
Events
Coming Up
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June 25, 2020A new era for food and climate: Driving transformative actions
Past Events
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February 25, 2020
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December 4, 2019
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December 3, 2019
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November 30, 2019
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October 15, 2019
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October 8–10, 2019
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September 22–27, 2019
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June 25, 2019
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June 19, 2019
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December 4–12, 2018
Resources
Transformation Initiative
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Actions to transform food systems under climate change: Shift to healthy and sustainable climate-friendly diets
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Actions to transform food systems under climate change: Reduce food loss and waste
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Actions to transform food systems under climate change: Drive social change for more sustainable decisions
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Adaptation and development pathways for different types of farmers
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Transforming food systems under climate change: Local to global policy as a catalyst for change
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A 6-part plan to transform food systems under climate change
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Changing diets and transforming food systems
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Future technologies and food systems innovation for accelerating progress towards the SDGs
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Financing the transformation of food systems under a changing climateBusiness unusual: Transforming food systems under a changing climate
Related Resources
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Urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (SDG 13): transforming agriculture and food systems
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Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture
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Agriculture in a changing climate: Keeping our cool in the face of the hothouse
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Rural livelihoods, food security and rural transformation under climate change