Global scientists serve up food security policy recommendations 21 Nov 2011

The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change has reviewed the scientific evidence to identify a pathway to achieving food security in the context of climate change. The committee, chaired by Professor John Beddington, has recommended crucial policy responses in response to the global challenge of feeding the world.

Key recommendations are:

1. Integrate food security and sustainable agriculture into global and national policies
2. Significantly raise the level of global investment in sustainable agriculture and food
systems in the next decade
3. Sustainably intensify agricultural production while reducing greenhouse gas
emissions and other negative environmental impacts of agriculture
4. Target populations and sectors that are most vulnerable to climate change and
food insecurity
5. Reshape food access and consumption patterns to ensure basic nutritional needs
are met and to foster healthy and sustainable eating habits worldwide
6. Reduce loss and waste in food systems, particularly from infrastructure, farming
practices, processing, distribution and household habits
7. Create comprehensive, shared, integrated information systems that encompass
human and ecological dimensions

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