Repurposing Agricultural Support Policies for Sustainable Food Systems: Toolkit
The global agrifood system can no longer deliver the triple wins of a healthy planet, healthy people, and healthy economies. The current system is associated with high hidden costs and urgently needs transformation to provide better livelihoods, raise farm productivity, and become more sustainable, equitable, resilient, and healthy. Studies show that agrifood system transformation has the potential to bring climate change under control, increase biological diversity, ensure healthier diets, and create new business opportunities worth up to US 4.5 trillion dollars a year. Repurposing these distortive agricultural policy support towards policy measures that promote increased efficiency, increased resilience, and enhanced positive environmental impacts offers an opportunity to accelerate the transformation towards environmentally sustainable agrifood systems. Repurposing agricultural policies and support is an opportunity to transform the agrifood system and help achieve goals of environmental sustainability, inclusion, improved nutrition, and resilience.
This report is a joint World Bank-FAO report.
