BELLAGIO STATEMENT

The Bellagio Statement, published in March 2019 by the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), outlines a strategic framework for transforming food systems in vulnerable and fragile regions. It identifies three critical action areas—halting land degradation, promoting diverse food landscapes, and linking food system resilience to regional stability—to address rising global food insecurity and meet climate mitigation targets.

• The participants identified three critical action areas for transforming food systems: halting the global drivers of agricultural land degradation and expansion, transitioning toward more diverse, nutritious, and resilient food landscapes, and establishing resilient food systems as a means to enhance regional stability and reduce conflict risks.
• To achieve climate action for food security in fragile contexts, the document advocates for a fundamental shift from a focus on efficiency and productivity toward resilience-based approaches. These approaches should emphasize risk management, diversity, non-linear transformational change, and the support of local actors using a food system approach from production to consumption.
• The statement emphasizes the role of soil in a 'quadruple role' for sustainability: improving food production via increased organic matter, acting as a carbon sink for large-scale sequestration, maintaining ecosystem services such as water retention and fertility, and building resilience against shocks and stressors.
• The document calls for commitments from national governments, International Financial Institutions (IFIs), and multilateral funds—specifically the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Global Environment Facility (GEF)—to support small-scale agriculture. Proposed actions include creating a resilience investment platform, increasing research on diverse systems, improving smallholder access to grants, loans, and climatic services, and utilizing nature-based solutions.
• The framework identifies three fundamentals of innovation necessary for transformative action: the need for scale and urgency to move beyond pilots, the requirement for ownership across government, communities, and the private sector, and the integration of gender and equity considerations.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2019). BELLAGIO STATEMENT. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bellagio-statement.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. BELLAGIO STATEMENT. 2019. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bellagio-statement.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{globalresiliencepartnership2019bellagio, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{BELLAGIO STATEMENT}}, publisher = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2019}, month = mar, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bellagio-statement.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }