John Innes Foundation Lecture: Climate change and sustainable food systems: pathways and partnerships

14th November 2023

Cynthia Rosenzweig – NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

ABSTRACT

Climate change – and the resulting extreme events – affect food production, and in turn the quality and quantity of food available to consumers.

As countries report their progress toward meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement in the Global Stocktake, and as we move into the ‘decade of action’ for climate change and prepare for COP28 in Dubai, food is more on the table than ever. But there are still silos that need to be addressed via radical collaboration and partnerships. Examples from the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) will present ways forward