Priorities for Public Sector Research on Food Security and Climate Change, Review 2, Melinda Sundell, Stockholm Environment Institute. Presented at the Food Security Futures Conference in Dublin, Ireland on 12 April 2013.

1. Stockholm Environment Institute
Bridging science and policy
Johan Kuylenstierna
Executive Director

2. agriculture matters
SIANI
Swedish International
Agricultural Network Initiative
Food Security Futures: Research Priorities for the 21st Century
11-12 April 2013
Dublin, Ireland

3. Global forces underlying food insecurity
• Poverty amidst abundance
(effective demand for food)
• Increased pressure on natural
resources (planetary boundaries)
• Climate Change (extreme weather
events and global warming)
• Population pressure (more & older)

4. Reshape food access and consumption patterns to
ensure basic nutritional needs are met and to foster
healthy and sustainable eating patterns worldwide
• Calories are
available
• Some/most calories
are from
carbohydrates
• People are (or are
not) being nourished
• They do NOT tell us
who is accessing
food, how and why?
• How expensive is
food in relation to
total income?
• How much food is
being wasted?

5. Already existing calorie deficits are compounded
by water stress and climate-related falls in
productivity

6. Reduce loss and waste in food systems, targeting
infrastructure, farming practices, processing,
distribution and household habits
Perhaps the most important area for several reasons:
• No major breakthroughs in technology
required, more a question of management and
organization
• No more production resources (land & water)
required
• Individual and local action is possible and
significant

7. Food Waste and Consumers:
50 Percent of Food is Wasted Causing Water,
Food and Hunger Crisis (www.siwi.org)
To meet the challenge of feeding growing
populations and the global hungry, massive
reductions in the amount of food wasted
after production are needed.
The Stockholm International Water Institute
(SIWI), the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
and the International Water Management
Institute (IWMI) released on Thursday,
August 21, a policy brief “Saving Water:
From Field to Fork – Curbing Losses and
Wastage in the Food Chain,” that calls on
governments to reduce by half, by 2025, the
amount of food that is wasted after it is
grown and outlines attainable steps for this
be achieved.

9. Differences between Rich and Poor
Countries

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