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Climate action and nutrition

Pathways to impact

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 44 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Synopsis (short abstract) Climate change and malnutrition are two of the greatest challenges facing humanity today, both interconnected through agrifood, water, social protection, and health systems. Responding to both climate change and malnutrition with integrated actions provides one solution to two of our biggest barriers to sustainable development.This paper, prepared as a contribution to the Initiative on Climate Change and Nutrition (I-CAN), explores options for integrated actions addressing jointly climate change and malnutrition across agrifood, water, social protection, and health systems by i) recapping each system’s importance to good nutrition, ii) compiling the evidence on the interaction of each system with climate change, and III) documenting the response options for integrated actions that have the potential to benefit climate change and malnutrition.The evidence compiled in this paper shows there is the potential for each of the systems to be nutrition-sensitive and climate-smart for healthy diets, safe food, efficiently managed clean water for all needs, enhanced coping strategies, and less illness from systems that significantly reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions, protect biodiversity, preserve natural resources and increase resilience resulting in a virtuous cycle of healthier people, and stronger communities that can drive sustainable development. Integrated actions can lead to positive outcomes on both climate and nutrition, with the support of key enablers identified in this paper. A comprehensive and strategic research agenda is also key in order to identify other key influencers and fill other priority gaps in our understanding of the trade-offs, enablers and pathways of integrated action to impact.

Last updated 25/03/2024, see Corrigendum

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FAO. 2023. Climate action and nutrition – Pathways to impact. Rome.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc8415en

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