By Andrea Oyuela and Samantha Nesrallah (EAT), Louise Hesseldal and Lykke Schmidt (Cities Changing Diabetes) and Jens Aerts, D’Arcy Williams and Jo Jewell (UNICEF) — in Cities Today Despite the world’s farmers producing enough food to feed 1.5x the global population, over 820 million people continue to go hungry every day. In parallel, 38 million […]
Category: Food System Transformation
Ep 7: Climate-smart food systems value nature, health & farmers
What role do agriculture and food systems play in climate change? What does the planet face if destructive practices aren’t altered? What happens if food systems get climate-smart? In Episode 7 of Earth Intelligence, we discuss the major value to those farmers, corporations, and regions that shift to regenerative practices, among them: better profits, better […]
Food System Economics Commission—Why now?
Dear Friends, I recently took on the role of Interim Commission Director for the Food System Economics Commission—an independent, interdisciplinary academic commission working to deliver a state-of-the-art scientific assessment on the economics of the transition to healthy, inclusive and sustainable food systems. The interim directorship runs through November 30, but circumstances demand we move quickly […]
Shift Incentives to Transform the Food System
REPORT FROM DAVOS The World Economic Forum has identified all 5 of the leading global risks as related to climate and environment: Extreme weather Climate action failure Natural disasters Biodiversity loss Human-made environmental disasters Climate breakdown is accelerating, and global carbon emissions are not declining. The loss of climate stability is not a small or […]
