Global Diálogo
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1. A transformation of global food systems is needed to positively impact nature and tackle current planetary and human health crisis. Food is central to our lives and it is also central to the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution that the world is currently facing. The global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss. Agriculture is a threat to the 85% of species at risk of extinction and close to 90% of the world's marine fish stocks are fully exploited, overexploited or depleted. Over the past 50 years, pollution by fertilizers, chemicals a
... Leer másnd pesticides and the conversion of natural ecosystems for crop production or pasture have been the principal causes of habitat loss. Anti-microbials in the environment and food value chains are a growing cause of human and animal death. As the world’s population is predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050, it is estimated that 70% more food calories will be needed. This will have an impact on our changing climate, with livestock currently contributing to 14.5% of GHG emissions and global food loss and waste generating annually about 8% of total anthropogenic GHG emissions. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the complex relation between human, animal and ecosystems health. 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic and evidence points to the biodiversity crisis as a contributory factor in the emergence of COVID-19. Food systems are also the backbone of human health: poor diets are the leading cause of death and often cause non-communicable diseases. “A transformation of food systems is central to the achievement of all 17 SDGs. From equity to education, from sustainable consumption and production to health, it has now become a matter of survival” (Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UNEP). 2. All of us need to come together to ensure nature-positive food systems – before and after the farm gate. Concrete action to transform our global diets, informed by national and cultural contexts and a reduction in food waste are critical to breaking the system lock-ins that have driven the intensification of agriculture and the continued conversion of native ecosystems to crop production and pasture. “We all need to eat to survive. Food that is a great connector, it's a universal language. Around the table we are equals, and, even more importantly, around the table we are together and ‘we are the revolution’” Chef Massimo Bottura (UNEP Goodwill Ambassador). Restoring 15% of converted lands in right places could prevent 60% of projected species extinctions. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration will catalyse global action to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean. Limiting the use of harmful and polluting inputs, replacing monoculture with polyculture farming practices, promoting deforestation-free and nature positive supply chains, as well as truly accounting for nature’s values and costs could not only make our way of farming more sustainable, but would also increase coherence between global agreements and national and local level action, while embedding a ‘food systems approach’ throughout. 3. “Dialogues lead to surprising connections that have the power to change us all for the good” (David Nabarro, Curator of the Summit Dialogues) This Dialogue and the platform it offered as well as the multiple country dialogues planned in the build-up to the FSS and beyond are critical to unlocking the solutions to our triple planetary crisis by diving into the complexity using a food systems lens. “Let's use this Dialogue to think through how we can come together to cause systemic change in our food systems. Let’s build a real agenda for change. Change will only happen if we put nature at the centre of our financial and socioeconomic systems”. (Agnes Kalibata, UN SG’s Special Envoy). “Every event, every dialogue, every conversation we have in the run-up to the Food Systems Summit is an opportunity to ensure food is mainstreamed in the preparations of the three Rio Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Desertification” (Susan Gardner, Director – Ecosystems, UNEP). Leer menos
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Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment