Global Environmental Climate Change, Covid-19, and Conflict Threaten Food Security and Nutrition
Publisher: BMJ
Author(s): Sheryl L. Hendriks, Hugh Montgomery, Tim Benton, Ousmane Badiane, Gonzalo Castro de la Mata, Jessica Fanzo, Ramon R. Guinto, and Jean-François Soussana
Date: 2022
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Disasters, Livelihoods, Public Health
September 2021 saw the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) take place in New York. It focused on the “three Cs” that are driving disruption to food systems and threatening recent progress in mitigating hunger, malnutrition, and undernutrition: global environmental climate change, covid-19 disease, and conflict. Summit delegates from 183 countries agreed that business as usual would not lead to the change necessary to achieve the sustainable development goals. Summit participants called for urgent action at scale.