Investment in resilient food systems in the most vulnerable and fragile regions is critical

Queiroz, Cibele; Norström, Albert V.; Downing, Andrea S.; Harmáčková, Zuzana V.; Coning, Cedric De; Adams, Vanessa M.; Bakarr, Mohamed I.; Baedeker, Tobías; Chitate, Ange; Gaffney, Owen; Gordon, Line; Hainzelin, Étienne; Howlett, David J.; Krampe, Florian; Loboguerrero, Ana María; Nel, Deon; Okollet, Constance; Rebermark, Maya; Rockström, Johan; Smith, Mark; Wabbes-Candotti, Sylvie; Matthews, Nathanial

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“…Two critical declarations of COP26 – the Forests and Land Use Declaration and the Global Methane Pledge – involve the land system (for weblinks see FLUD; GMP in reference list). Meanwhile, the impacts of climate change such as extreme weather and related impacts, such as droughts, wildfires, floods, are already having an influence on land systems, resulting in a disruption and loss of ecosystem and societal resilience, especially the livelihoods of the most vulnerable (Queiroz et al, 2021).…”

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Ten new insights in climate science 2022

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Non-technical summary We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, inclusive societal climate decisions and ways to overcome structural barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C. Technical summary We synthesize 10 topics within climate research where there have been significant advances or emerging scientific consensus since January 2021. The selection of these insights was based on input from an international open call with broad disciplinary scope. Findings concern: (1) new aspects of soft and hard limits to adaptation; (2) the emergence of regional vulnerability hotspots from climate impacts and human vulnerability; (3) new threats on the climate–health horizon – some involving plants and animals; (4) climate (im)mobility and the need for anticipatory action; (5) security and climate; (6) sustainable land management as a prerequisite to land-based solutions; (7) sustainable finance practices in the private sector and the need for political guidance; (8) the urgent planetary imperative for addressing losses and damages; (9) inclusive societal choices for climate-resilient development and (10) how to overcome barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C. Social media summary Science has evidence on barriers to mitigation and how to overcome them to avoid limits to adaptation across multiple fields.

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“…In the face of global change, there is no doubt that restoration of habitat and utilization of processes that plants mediate will be central to combating the looming climate and ecological crises of the 21st century (Queiroz et al, 2021 ). We ignore the opportunities presented to us by the botanical world at our peril.…”

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The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness

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Civilization is dependent upon plants for survival. Plants permeate our every moment and our relationship with them will dictate how we will manage the threats of climate change and ecological collapse defining the Anthropocene. Yet, despite the significance of plants and the critical role they have played in shaping ecosystems, civilizations, and human cultures, many people are now disconnected from the botanical world. Students are presented with little plant content, particularly identification, compared with animal content. Consequently, we are producing few plant scientists and educating fewer scientists about plants. This drives a self‐accelerating cycle we term the extinction of botanical education . A process of knowledge erosion, that in this instance contributes to our separation from the natural world, makes us blind to the biodiversity crisis and inhibits our ability to restore it. We argue that neglecting the importance of plants within education threatens the foundations of industries and professions that rely on this knowledge. Furthermore, this extinction of botanical education creates an existential threat: Without the skills to fully comprehend the scale of and solutions to human‐induced global change, how do we as a society combat it? We present key research agendas that will enable us to reverse the extinction of botanical education and highlight the critical role plants play on the global stage.

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“…The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2022) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI, 2022) reports add further weight to the notion of an impending "perfect storm" (Beddington, 2009), involving decadal-scale changes in average temperatures and rainfall patterns, plus increasingly frequent and extreme weather events associated with cascading disturbances such as wildfires and floods. The primary impacts are further magnified by secondary drivers, including (but not exhaustively) projected declines in the yields and nutritional values of fruits, vegetables and seeds in a warmer world (Alae-Carew et al, 2020;Scheelbeek et al, 2018), the intensification of conflicts around food scarcity (Queiroz et al, 2021), and national and international population changes as a result of climate-induced migration (Barnett and Adger, 2007).…”

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UN-Nutrition Journal. Volume 1: Transforming nutrition

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Investment in resilient food systems in the most vulnerable and fragile regions is critical

Abstract: Investment in resilient food systems in the most vulnerable and fragile regions is criticalReversing the alarming trend of rising food insecurity requires transformations towards just, sustainable and healthy food systems with an explicit focus on the most vulnerable and fragile regions.

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Ten new insights in climate science 2022

Ten new insights in climate science 2022

The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness

UN-Nutrition Journal. Volume 1: Transforming nutrition

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