UNFCCC COP 25 Outcome Document Agri-food chains Roundtable Advancing Climate Actions on Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture Food Chains for a 1.50 C Net Zero World

The document outlines the necessity of transforming global agri-food systems to ensure climate resilience and sustainability. It identifies the sector as a significant emitter with high sequestration potential and proposes seven key benefits of a transformed system, including improved food security, reduced food waste, and the protection of smallholders. The roundtable emphasizes the need for systemic changes in finance, power dynamics, and knowledge access to support vulnerable groups and nature-based solutions.

• The current agri-food system requires radical and transformative change because it is no longer tenable or sustainable for delivering life-supporting services.
• Agri-food sectors have the potential to sequester at least 30% of greenhouse gases (GHG) through carbon capture in soils and forests.
• Transforming the sector could provide significant socio-economic and health benefits, including feeding an additional 2 billion people by 2050, lifting 820 million people from undernourishment, and avoiding USD 4.5 trillion in annual costs associated with the double burden of undernourishment and obesity.
• Diversified and resilient agriculture systems could eliminate between 26% and 80% of climate-related damages and losses, particularly those resulting from drought.
• Global food loss and waste currently average 30%, resulting in $940 billion in annual economic losses; if these emissions were attributed to a single country, it would be the third largest emitter after the US and China.
• Systemic transformation requires addressing power imbalances that favor multinational corporations over smallholders, with a specific focus on youth, women, indigenous people, Least Developed Countries (LDCs), and Small Island Developing States (SIDs).

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2019). UNFCCC COP 25 Outcome Document Agri-food chains Roundtable Advancing Climate Actions on Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture Food Chains for a 1.50 C Net Zero World. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/agrifood_rt_roundtable_outcome_1212.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. UNFCCC COP 25 Outcome Document Agri-food chains Roundtable Advancing Climate Actions on Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture Food Chains for a 1.50 C Net Zero World. 2019. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/agrifood_rt_roundtable_outcome_1212.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnership2019unfccc, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{UNFCCC COP 25 Outcome Document Agri-food chains Roundtable Advancing Climate Actions on Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture Food Chains for a 1.50 C Net Zero World}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2019}, month = dec, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/agrifood_rt_roundtable_outcome_1212.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }