Policy briefs and discussion papers
Sub Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa’s Food Systems and COVID-19: Emerging Evidence
Written by FOLU and Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the paper summarises an emerging framework and evidence on the impacts of COVID-19 on SSA food systems, as well as a way forward.
Strengthening Food Systems’ Resilience to COVID-19:
Initial Lessons from FOLU Countries’ Responses to the Global Pandemic
This paper showcases learnings from FOLU’s five core countries, offers a food system resilience framework and provokes discussion on its application. It encourages country teams, partners and related organisations to identify areas where they could work and support.
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Join us together with experts from CRB, IDH, WRI and WWF for the launch of a new Action Coalition for Responsible Sourcing and Trade of Commodities.
The Future of Nature and Business Policy Companion:
Recommendations for policy-makers to reset towards a new nature economy
This paper by the World Economic Forum (WEF), in collaboration with SYSTEMIQ, outlines how finance ministers can kick-start a nature-positive economy programme that creates jobs and builds resilience by reducing risks to food security, public health, and climate. As governments look to stimulate their economies amid the fragility exposed by COVID-19, they must seize the moment to integrate nature into policy – to support businesses to act now and to protect nature. This and other papers supported by FOLU partners are contributing to an important and growing body of work around a nature-positive economy, with an aim to influence stimulus recovery packages.
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Join us for a high-level discussion to understand the critical and often overlooked connection between the climate crisis and our food and land use systems. Our speakers will take a close look at some of the key data presented in the Food and Land Use Coalition’s (FOLU) latest brief Why Nature? Why Now? How nature is key to achieving a 1.5C world, to be launched on Oct. 18. They will also dive into case studies from Africa and Indonesia.
How to build a carbon neutral economy for the United States by 2050 By Gordon McCord, Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Dean, School Of Global Policy And Strategy, University Of...
Nature for Net Zero:
consultation document on the need to raise corporate ambition towards naturebased net-zero emissions
A new consultation document, Nature for Net-Zero, by the Food and Land Use Coalition sets out the actions needed to protect and restore nature to help limit global warming to 1.5°C for people and planet – raising nature-based net-zero ambition.
Related news and resources
Join us for a high-level discussion to understand the critical and often overlooked connection between the climate crisis and our food and land use systems. Our speakers will take a close look at some of the key data presented in the Food and Land Use Coalition’s (FOLU) latest brief Why Nature? Why Now? How nature is key to achieving a 1.5C world, to be launched on Oct. 18. They will also dive into case studies from Africa and Indonesia.
