Healthy soils sustain foodsystem transformationsto contribute to the net zeroCO2emission target by 2050 Feb 20 Written By Hanna Linden (she/her) | CA4SH Secretariat CONTEXT Climate crisis calls for urgent transformations. The Parties agreed at COP 21 UNFCCC1 (Paris 2015) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to maintain by 2100 the global mean temperature on Earth below +2°C compared to the pre-industrial global temperature. The sixth IPCC2 report indicates that we are not on track, with a global temperature increase already reaching +1.01°C in the 2011-2020 period. Food systems contribute to a third of these global emissions, 70% of them being due to agriculture, land use, and land use change activities (AFOLU). Agriculture provides 95% of food to humanity. Soils provide to societies and ecosystems a wide diversity of services. Loss of ecosystem services through land degradation, a ecting 3.2 billion people worldwide, has reached high levels in many parts of the world. By 2030, the most vulnerable people will suffer from: A global decrease in food production due to more frequent crop failures. An increase by nearly one billion hectares of degraded land, provided a similar rate of degradation. Download pdf policy briefCIRAD4p1000IRDFood SystemsAgriculturePolicy Hanna Linden (she/her) | CA4SH Secretariat https://www.hannanorth.com/
Healthy soils sustain foodsystem transformationsto contribute to the net zeroCO2emission target by 2050 Feb 20 Written By Hanna Linden (she/her) | CA4SH Secretariat CONTEXT Climate crisis calls for urgent transformations. The Parties agreed at COP 21 UNFCCC1 (Paris 2015) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to maintain by 2100 the global mean temperature on Earth below +2°C compared to the pre-industrial global temperature. The sixth IPCC2 report indicates that we are not on track, with a global temperature increase already reaching +1.01°C in the 2011-2020 period. Food systems contribute to a third of these global emissions, 70% of them being due to agriculture, land use, and land use change activities (AFOLU). Agriculture provides 95% of food to humanity. Soils provide to societies and ecosystems a wide diversity of services. Loss of ecosystem services through land degradation, a ecting 3.2 billion people worldwide, has reached high levels in many parts of the world. By 2030, the most vulnerable people will suffer from: A global decrease in food production due to more frequent crop failures. An increase by nearly one billion hectares of degraded land, provided a similar rate of degradation. Download pdf policy briefCIRAD4p1000IRDFood SystemsAgriculturePolicy Hanna Linden (she/her) | CA4SH Secretariat https://www.hannanorth.com/