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Woman walking through corn field.
Leaders sign food sustainability declaration at COP28
… first step in addressing one of the thorniest problems of the climate crisis – our broken food systems. They are responsible for so many greenhouse gas emissions, … Climate change … Food and agriculture … UN climate change conference (COP28) … Leaders sign food sustainability declaration at COP28 …
News, 01 December 2023
Fishers on small boats have their belongings searched while the boats are afloat.
Rights and housing justice for urban small-scale fishing communities
… a critical role in the workings of coastal cities. They contribute to food security and nutrition, help drive the local economy and safeguard … forced evictions , the threat of which is rising in the face of the climate crisis. Added to the threat of eviction is mounting pressure on coastal …
Project, 23 April 2026
Cover of the paper, Exposed and exploited: climate change, migration and modern slavery in Bangladesh
Exposed and exploited: climate change, migration and modern slavery in Bangladesh
… Climate change is an escalating global crisis with profound implications for communities vulnerable to climate … weak social safety nets, these disruptions compromise livelihoods, food security and long-term resilience. The interplay of climate shocks … Climate change … Exposed and exploited: climate change, migration and modern slavery in Bangladesh …
Publication, 17 February 2025
Two people pour liquid on a plate of potatoes.
Indigenous food systems prove highly resilient during COVID-19
… foodstuffs. The pandemic laid bare the vulnerabilities of global food supply chains that rely on long distance transportation, and of … crops, maintaining and enhancing their genetic diversity to adapt to climate change. But the knowledge, innovation and resilience of … agendas, pushing a belief that we can engineer ourselves out of any crisis, while sidelining the Indigenous and traditional food knowledge …
Insight, 26 August 2021
Cover for 20606G.pdf
Declaration of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP): Indigenous Food Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Publication, 25 October 2021
Tree nursery
Strengthening climate resilience through agroforestry and community forestry
… president, the ongoing drought and lack of rainfall has affected food security, livelihoods and economic stability in the southern … predicts that the situation will deteriorate in the coming months: a crisis it describes as being "largely driven by climate related shocks, the high incidence of poverty, and the …
Insight, 19 November 2024
People standing between piles of bananas
African social movements call on UN food summit to give people back control
… Since the end of 2019, the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) has been one of the most talked-about … way of life, and will exacerbate land degradation, biodiversity loss, climate change, pollution and the growing challenge of unplanned … has offered a strategy to the African Union, recognising the crisis in our food system. As a network of networks with 38 members …
Insight, 21 July 2021
A stallholder in front of a food stall
Resilient food systems and COVID-19: lessons for a Just Transition
… The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a health crisis but also an economic crisis and a food crisis, coming on top of the climate crisis. Like climate change, its effects will be most acutely … Food and agriculture … Resilient food systems and COVID-19: lessons for a Just Transition …
Insight, 22 May 2020
A group of people gather around a pile of potatoes with mountains as a backdrop
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity
… Modern food and farming systems are fundamentally unsustainable. They … systems preserve rich biodiversity, provide nutritious food and are climate resilient and low carbon. And they are already achieving zero … donated a ton of potatoes to people in need in Cusco city during the crisis. In balance with nature In a livestreamed session from the high …
Insight, 23 October 2020
Man walking next to rail tracks covered by weeds
How can local urban priorities connect with responses at global level to the climate crisis?
… project (IKI-TUC) in Latin America, a project that wants to make sure climate mitigation efforts are underpinned by equitable development and … from Buenos Aires in Argentina to León in Mexico, had identified food, better housing and jobs as most urgent; for them climate change … Yet at the global level the conversation is about the climate crisis, of mitigation and adaptation, of loss and damage ; of cities …
Insight, 26 October 2022