As the dust settles from COP27, here’s how we can move forward actions for nutrition and the environment
For the first time in the history of COP, food systems were put centre stage in the climate negotiations. Different pavilions and events focused on crucial aspects of the complex food systems and climate interactions.
Story 4: The Importance of Increasing the Resilience of Food and Nutrition Security to Climate Change
Read our fourth story in the series on The Food Crisis: What's Happening, a collection of work on the current events and the impact communities are seeing on a global scale. The Food Crisis is affecting everyone socially, economically and nutritionally. Stella Nordhagen, our Senior Technical Specialist discusses the wide reaching ripple effect climate change will cause on our food systems and what actions need immediate attention.
GAIN Statement @ COP27
COP27 was not the first time nutrition and climate have been mentioned in the same breath at a COP. That was in Paris in 2015 and no one really listened. Timing is everything and in Sharm El Sheik seven years later the timing was right.
Retail food environment and green spaces for healthy cities: a methodological approach based o
Online Webinar, Global
Retail food environments influence most aspects of food environments, that is what food is available, its price, quality, convenience and promotion, and the willingness to purchase and consume a healthy diet.
Initiative on climate action and nutrition (I-CAN)
- 09/11/2022
Climate change impacts and risks are becoming increasingly complex and more difficult to manage. Simultaneously, the world is facing the complex challenges of hunger and multiple forms of malnutrition.
The Art of Application – Food Safety Innovations For Traditional Markets
Virtual, Global
In this second webinar of a two-part series, EatSafe will highlight the importance of innovative solutions in food safety, and their applicability to low- and middle- income countries, specifically in traditional markets and along the food value chain.
A COP27 Priority: Stepping up our support for agrifood SMEs
In a joint article with One Acre Fund earlier this year, we called for greater attention to be paid to smallholder farmers, whose role is essential if we are to fulfil the needs of an ever-growing population – even in the face of climate change, economic turbulence, conflict, and the many other disruptions that lie ahead.
Inclusive diets within planetary boundaries
- Online Webinar, Global
Efforts to feed the world’s growing population are exacting a heavy toll on the health of the planet, with modern global food systems threatening multiple planetary boundaries.
Strengthening local fresh food markets for resilient food systems
- 03/11/2022
The global food system is experiencing the worst crisis in history. Unlike the food price crisis of 2007-8, in 2022 there is a convergence of multiple crises. Hunger and malnutrition have soared in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).