Climate action and nutrition: Pathways to impact
Climate change and malnutrition are two of the biggest challenges facing humanity today. Responding to climate change and malnutrition reveals a range of areas where the two interact and how addressing one can have positive impacts on the other.
On Wednesday 25th October 2023, at the CFS51 side event "Integrating Climate and Nutrition: an essential action for zero hunger", FAO and its partners presented the Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN) and launched two publications highlighting the crucial links between nutrition and climate change, and how developing joint responses can accelerate action on both issues. The event also highlighted numerous projects from the Global Agriculture & Food Security Program (GAFSP) that are already implementing efforts that put integrated climate and nutrition responses into action.
Recording - (coming soon) | Agenda
(Wednesday 25th October, 8.30 - 9.45 AM, CEST)
CLIMATE ACTION AND NUTRITION:
This FAO paper prepared for I-CAN explores four key systems that underpin good nutrition by i) recapping each system’s importance to good nutrition, ii) compiling the evidence on the interaction of each system with climate change, and III) documenting the response options for integrated action that address climate change and malnutrition. These systems are agrifood systems, water, social protection, and health. The evidence shows that each offers options that can bring about positive outcomes both for climate change mitigation and adaptation and for nutrition. |
| ACCELERATING ACTION AND OPENING OPPORTUNITIES: This GAIN baseline paper on I-CAN identifies opportunities to act jointly on climate change and malnutrition, examining the evidence base behind the current state of climate-nutrition integration. Much common ground can be found for accelerating co-benefits. For example, nutritious diets that are low in highly-processed and packaged foods and animal-sourced foods tend to also be lower in greenhouse gas emissions. Ample opportunities exist that have clear potential for catalysing integrated actions on climate change and malnutrition. The paper encourages policymakers and scholars in the fields of climate and nutrition to think holistically about inherent connections between their work. | ||||
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