How to Drive Global Action that Transforms Agricultural Innovation

Jul 27, 2021 | CGIAR
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After energy, agriculture is the largest source of GHG emissions that causes climate change, uses 70% of freshwater resources and leads to unprecedented biodiversity loss. At the same time, agriculture is increasingly being acknowledged for its unique potential to address global challenges. In particular, innovation in agriculture has the potential to develop and deploy solutions at the scale and pace that are needed to address such challenges.

From technologies to social, institutional, and policy changes, innovation in agriculture can help achieve the three pillars of sustainability: (i) Environment – ensuring food is produced, transported, processed, sold and consumed in a nature-positive way; (ii) Economic – ensuring that food systems provide farmers with food and nutritional security as well as decent economic returns and prosperity; (iii) Social – ensuring fair and equitable access to technology, knowledge, information, and infrastructure, as well as addressing gender equity and the needs and aspirations of women, youth, indigenous people and other marginalised groups.

Who: CGIAR

Where: Online

When: 27 July 2021    Time: 13:30 PM (UTC+1)