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2022 Global Food Policy Report: Climate Change and Food Systems
Food systems have a central role to play in climate change adaptation and mitigation, as well as meeting related development goals. Action on climate change is urgently needed in all components of our food systems. The importance of food systems in the context of climate change gained significant attention in 2021, but needs to be elevated in climate policy discussions. A significant shortfall in financing climate smart food systemss also nees to be addressed.
Launching today, the 2022 Global Food Policy Report highlights key insights from across food systems and regions and recommends policy reforms and investments that can accelerate a sustainable transformation of our food systems.
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Threats, Aspirations, & Solutions: Johan Swinnen, Johan Swinnen, Channing Arndt, and Rob Vos assess the current state of food systems and climate change, arguing that transformation is urgently needed, but it is still of possible to achieve the world’s ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and bolstering adaptation. (Chapter 1)
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Reorienting Support: Current agricultural support is highly distortive and can lead to suboptimal environmental outcomes, but reorienting this support toward sustainability goals could generate major wins for the environment, global health, and economies, argue Rob Vos, Will Martin, and Danielle Resnick. (Chapter 2)
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Trade and Climate: Trade-related emissions should be reduced, but it is important to remember the role trade can play in promoting efficient resource use and ensuring food security. Joseph Glauber argues trade should be viewed as integral to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and that policy makers avoid any distortionary policies. (Chapter 3)
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Research for the Future: Research is essential to improving agricultural productivity, resource use, and resilience and more broadly for food systems transformation. Gert-Jan Stads and colleagues make the case for increasing research funding to meet global economic, nutritional, and environmental goals. (Chapter 4)
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Climate-Smart Finance: Less than 4% of current climate financing goes to agricultre and food systems, but Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Ruben Echeverría outline how reorienting existing financial flows and creating new resources such as publicly-backed “green bonds” can boost sustainable transformation. (Chapter 5)
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Social Protection & Resilience: Social protection programs are essential for improving livelihoods and protecting vulnerable populations from shocks. Dan Gilligan, Steven Devereux, and Jessica Tenzing outline how adaptive social protection and other reforms can provide vital resilience to the impacts of climate change and even boost mitigation efforts. (Chapter 6)
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Landscape Governance: Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Wei Zhang, Hagar ElDidi, and Pratiti Priyadarshini argue that governance at the landscape level is necessary to confront climate change, and provide recommendations for engaging all actors for cooperative landscape management. (Chapter 7)
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Nutrition & Climate: Sustainable and healthy diets can protect both human and planetary health, but it has proven challenging to support wide-sprea adoption in light of affordability and other challenges. Marie Ruel and Jessica Fanzo suggest multipronged, coherent, and mutually reinforcing policy packages and suggest priority actions. (Chapter 8)
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Rural Clean Energy: Rural access to clean energy can reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also improving rural livelhoods by protecting against climate shocks and providing additional non-farm income. Claudia Ringler, Alebachew Azezew Belete, Steven Matome Mathetsa, and Stefan Uhlenbrook propose integrated governance across the water-energy-food-environment sectors to create an enabling environment for accelerated clean energy development. (Chapter 9)
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Bio-Innovations for Climate-Smart Food Systems: Jose Falck-Zepeda and colleagues provide recommendations for establishing functional, streamlined, and transparent regulatory frameworks for advancing genome-editing technologies that can be crucial to adaptation, mitigation, and resilience for low- and middle-income countries. (Chapter 10)
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Sustainable Value Chains: The impacts of climate change will be felt all along food value chains, requiring swift adaptation. Alan de Brauw and Grazia Pacillo identify three action-ready solutions to address these impacts and accelerate adaptation. (Chapter 11)
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Digital Innovations: Digital innovations can help actors across food value chains manage climate risks, but many rural food-production areas lack essential digital infrastructure. Jawoo Koo and colleagues offer policy recommendations to improve incentives to invest in and improve digital access in rural areas. (Chapter 12)
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Interactive Video
Explore the thematic chapters of the 2022 GFPR in an interactive video that allows viewers to jump directly to the key take-aways and policy recommendations of greatest interest. (Watch Video)
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The impacts of climate change will vary across the globe, requiring regions and countries to identify appropriate policy responses that reflect local needs and opportunities.
The 2022 GFPR examines the effects of climate change on regional food systems and provides promising policy recommendations to support sustainable food systems transformation in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. (Explore Regional Analysis)
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IFPRI hosts GFPR discussions with policy makers, practicioners, and partners in cities all over the globe. Updates on these regional and country-focused events will be posted as they are confirmed. (Check the schedule of confirmed events)
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