Stockholm Resilience Centre - The current food crisis: Building resilience at the nexus of food

Climate change and the increasing The impacts of climate change are being increasingly frequency and intensity of extreme weather felt around the world in the form of cold and heat 26 events, natural hazards, and weather waves, droughts and floods, wildfires, and storms. [...] Food Insecurity in Watauga County, North that the financialization of food markets and the Carolina, United States of America widespread speculation on commodity markets are The current food crisis tracing back to the onset of the primary causes of rising food prices11–38. [...] The combined impact of several Simplified: International trade has also become one of the drivers places substantially higher pressure on the main drivers of the increased specialization of agricultural resilience of the global food system, as mobilizing landscapes towards the production of a handful of export 45,59 resources and capacities to respond to one driver crops to the global market. [...] hand, global food trade has substantially increased the interdependence between places and sectors The consolidation and concentration across the leading to the quick spreading of food shocks across global food system is compromising the resilience the globe, creating unexpected cascading impacts62,63. [...] Other risks of the With the loss of diversity also comes the loss increased concentration and consolidation of actors of ecosystem redundancy (when several species and power are for example “lock-ins” in the advance contribute to the same ecosystem function), which of knowledge and innovations, as dominant actors ensures the maintenance of functions over time will privilege innovation that serves.