Accelerating comprehensive risk management in agrifood systems - Issue brief

Source

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

This issue brief examines challenges in addressing today's multiple food crises and showcases and outlines opportunities for effectively integrating DRR into CCA and agrifood systems policies and action plans. Additionally, it highlights the importance of understanding food system outcomes, especially food security and nutrition, to inform DRR and climate action. It advocates for stakeholder cooperation to strengthen disaster and climate risk governance in vulnerable countries and to accelerate progress towards integrated policies and plans by showcasing successful initiatives.

Some of the key points and recommendations from this brief include:

To address current challenges and gaps in accelerating resilience building in agrifood systems policy coherence and integrated planning and implementation are essentials.
Risk-informing agrifood systems: Action and investments in agrifood systems must be risk-informed, including observed and projected impacts, past and future climate information and potential cascading and compounding hazards.
Enhancing early warnings and climate information for agrifood system resilience: Multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) linked to early action are critical to prevent significant losses and damages in agrifood systems.
Coherent planning and implementation: Climate resilience building requires multi-stakeholder and cross-sectoral collaboration along the entire food value chain, including global and localized actions.