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Nourishing ten billion sustainably: resilient food production in a time of climate change

25 Jun 2021

Nourishing ten billion sustainably: resilient food production in a time of climate change CLIMATE CHANGE : SCIENCE AND SOLUTIONS | BRIEFING 10 Nourishing ten billion sustainably: resilient food production in a time of climate change In brief The global food system accounts for around one third of the inevitable impacts of climate change. [...] low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions requires • Given the environmental impact of many aspects of the science to be deployed from fundamental research food system, it is important for policy-makers to address and development through to demonstration and the question of diet and its consequences for the deployment of technologies and agricultural practices, climate, taking account of economic and soc. [...] The food system and climate change – a four-way challenge This briefing focuses on the four-way challenge increased food security by saving an estimated It has been at the nexus of climate change and the food billion people from starvation and prevented system. [...] 13,000 are threatened by agricultural land 1.3 Food resilience – the need to adapt to the clearing and degradation, around 3,000 by impacts of climate change hunting and fishing, and a further 3,000 by As well as contributing to GHGs, the food pollution from the food system10. [...] 6 CLIMATE CHANGE : SCIENCE AND SOLUTIONS NOURISHING TEN BILLION SUSTAINABLY 2.3 Sustainable food biotechnologies The foundations of the latest breakthroughs Innovation is flourishing across food lie in the genome sequencing of hundreds of Researchers are technologies, from food processing and varieties of crop species since the early 2000s, biochemistry to nutritional sciences.

Authors

The Royal Society

Pages
12
Published in
United Kingdom