Food is at the same time a cause and a victim of climate change. It is the source of more than one third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture has difficulties in adapting to the speed at which climate change is taking place. This is most likely to impact on food availability in the future.
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26 May 2024 – The World Bank presents its recipe to achieve zero net GHG emissions by food – Willl technology and innovation save the cold and mechanical world described by the Bank? [read]
7 October 2020 – France: 40% of greenhouse gases generated to meet the demand of households and businesses are emitted abroad. To achieve carbon neutrality, France will not just have to be contented with reducing greenhouse gas emissions on its territory. Other measures will also be required. [read]
September 2020 – Opinions: Combatting climate change in our daily life by Materne Maetz – How to participate individually and effectively in the fight against climate disruption? How to relate what you do every day with the climate and become an actor of necessary changes? [read]
September 2019 – Why is it so difficult to make our food system more sustainable and climate-friendly? An analysis of historical, ideological and structural obstacles of a transition towards a more sustainable and climate-friendly food system. [read]
April 2018 – Policies for a transition towards more sustainable and climate friendly food systems – What would a sustainable food system look like? What measures for moving towards more sustainability? Why is the transition to a more sustainable food system so difficult? [read]
13 December 2016 – Climate finance for poor countries: confusion, lack of transparency and probability that commitments made will not be respected – During COP21 in Paris, rich countries committed to help fund climate adaptation and mitigation efforts of poor countries through a funding mechanism that aims at mobilising USD100 billion annually by 2020. Where do we stand one year later? [read]
23 August 2015 – A major challenge for agricultural research in the mid-term: developping climate-change ready rice varieties – On-going research demonstrates the necessity to invest in public agricultural research to help develop technologies accessible to all farmers. [read]
17 June 2015 – A solution to combat climate change: an agriculture that stores carbon in the soil – Regenerative organic agriculture can help store a huge quantity of carbon in the soil while contributing to make agriculture more sustainable and to eradicate hunger. [read]
11 October 2014 – The Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture: a new tool for an enlightened capitalism?Launched a little more than two years after the launching of the New Alliance for Food Security, this coalition of governments, associations and private companies seeks to promote a more climate-smart agriculture. But will it operate in the interests of the more vulnerable? [read]
20 Decembre 2013 – Promoting climate smart agriculture: why be so shy about policies? Climate-smart agriculture has become an important subject on the development agenda. But little is said in concrete terms on policies to shift current agriculture towards a more climate-smart one. Why is that so? [read]