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Tom Arnold at CFS 42 Side Event 2015
- 2. Climate-smart food systems for enhanced nutrition Tom Arnold Interim Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement; Member, Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, and Montpellier Panel.
- 3. The need for action By 2100, up o 40% of the world’s land surface will have to adapt to altered climates
- 4. The need for action Each decade through to 2050, agricultural output is projected to fall by 2%, while food demand will rise by 14%
- 5. The need for action Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia face the prospect of the most serious impacts of climate change
- 6. The need for action These regions already have the highest burden of malnutrition
- 7. Climate change and agriculture seen through a nutrition lens • Promoting higher production of staple crops is not enough • Nutrient-rich foods are particularly susceptible • Higher levels of carbon dioxide may reduce nutrient content
- 8. Nutrient-sensitive food systems can also be climate-smart • Evidence shows how diets and food systems are adversely affected by weather shocks and price volatility. • Solutions are diverse. • Focus on diverse, high-quality and healthy diets.
- 9. Action is needed now to integrate nutrition into climate-smart agriculture practices and food systems.
- 10. A pro-nutrition lens will help ensure healthy diets at every stage of life.
- 11. “The already-present impacts of climate change are demanding innovation and partnership in agriculture on a scale never seen before.” Rachel Kyte, Global Panel member; Vice President and Special Envoy, Climate Change Group, World Bank Group
- 13. The Global Panel Members John Kufuor Co-Chair Former President of Ghana Akinwumi Adesina Federal Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria Tom Arnold Interim Coordinator, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement; and Director General, Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) John Beddington Co-Chair Former United Kingdom Government Chief Scientific Advisor Mahabub Hossain Former Executive Director, BRAC José Graziano da Silva Director General, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
- 14. Maurício Antônio Lopes President, Brazilian Enterprise for Agricultural Research (Embrapa) Rhoda Peace Tumusiime Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission The Global Panel Members Emmy Simmons Board Member, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa/AGree Srinath Reddy President, Public Health Foundation of India Rachel Kyte Vice President for the Sustainable Development Network, World Bank; and Chair of CGIAR Fund Council
- 16. Learn more : www.glopan.org Follow us on Twitter at: @Glo_PAN
- 17. 1. Include diet quality goals within adaptation targets proposed for climate action. 2. Diversify agricultural investments, factoring in the local realities of ecological suitability and comparative advantage. 3. Support greater food system efficiency, so that outputs per unit of water, energy, land and other inputs are optimised and the footprint of agriculture and non-farm activities are better managed to meet both food demand and higher quality diets. Policy Recommendations
- 18. 4. Integrate measures to improve climate change resilience and nutritional value of crop and livestock products along the value chain, from production to marketing. 5. Protect the diet quality of the poor in the face of supply shocks and growing food demand. 6. Promote the generation and use of rigorous evidence on appropriate investments along food value-chains which are resilient to climate change and also deliver positive dietary outcomes and support improved nutrition.
Editor's Notes
- Thank you Neil for the introduction. As we get close to the UN Climate Conference (Conference of Parties 21 in Paris, COP21), calls are mounting for serious commitments to addressing key drivers of climate change and to protecting key affected sectors, such as agriculture. While necessary, those foci are not sufficient if we take equally seriously the goal of ending malnutrition by 2030 – one of the key agendas agreed to by world leaders for the new Sustainable Development Goals.
- To achieve any of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we must ensure that we are smart about what is sustaining us. By 2100, up to 40% of the world’s land surface will have to adapt to altered climates.
- Each decade through to 2050, agricultural output is projected to fall by 2%, while food demand will rise by 14%.
- Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia face the prospect of most serious impacts of climate change.
- These regions already have the highest burdens of malnutrition and the greatest reliance on agriculture.
- If we look at climate change and agriculture through a nutrition lens, we see that: - Raising the production of staple crops will not be enough to make agriculture more resilient to climate change. It is not about just growing more, as this will not address the world’s need for improved diets. - Nutrient-rich foods are particularly susceptible to climate change impacts, including drought, the spread of pests and diseases, and temperature fluctuations. - There is also growing evidence that higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may reduce the nutrient content and/or quality of various staple crops, making them less inherently nutritious. In other words, nutrition isn’t determined just by food supply. The quality of foods and diets matters just as much, combined with actions to ensure clean water, access to health care and more. Protecting global food output from climatic threats (while critically important), is not the only commitment needed for improving nutrition.
- Nutrient-sensitive food systems have the potential to be climate-smart: • While evidence of effective climate change actions is still limited, there is already a good understanding of how diets and food systems are adversely affected by weather shocks and price volatility. • Solutions lie in the diversification of agricultural investments, the mitigation of climate-related stresses on crop and livestock quality, greater resource use efficiency along value chains, and the protection of diet quality in the face of supply and food price shocks. • Climate-smart and nutrition-smart action should focus on diverse, high-quality and healthy diets.
- We need to take action today to both optimise current diets and the nutrient quality of food systems around the world, and to adapt and protect those systems against climate change.
- Decision makers should adopt a pro-nutrition lens when designing policies aimed at protecting and promoting agriculture in the face of climate change. Using nutrition as a lens through which to promote climate-smart policies would move us beyond the goal of ‘producing more food’ toward securing more diversified, more efficient food systems as a whole. The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition argues that we need to promote productivity of affordable nutrient-rich foods and protect the nutrient quality of crops in the context of nutrient-degrading atmospheric conditions. Innovations are also needed in food storage, processing, packaging and marketing, wherever possible leading to reduced carbon emissions along the value chain.
- In other words, to secure real gains for nutrition in the context of climate change, thinking about adaption and policy prioritisation has to move beyond the farm-gate. The current climate debates need to link climate-focused actions with food system resilience by paying genuine attention to higher quality of global diets and nutrition.
- You can find out more in the latest policy brief by the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, either on their website, or you can find copies of the report when you leave the room.
- The Global Panel is an independent group of influential experts – all shown on the slides - with a commitment to tackling global challenges in food and nutrition security. The Panel works to ensure that agriculture and food systems support access to nutritious foods at every stage of life.
- The Global Panel aims to: Generate and stimulate a stronger evidence-base for how changes in agriculture and food systems can improve nutrition. Create and promote a new understanding of the role and future potential of agriculture and food systems in improving nutrition. Catalyse collaboration in agricultural and food systems that will improve diets and nutrition outcomes for all.