Accelerating the 10 Critical Transitions

Positive Tipping Points for Food and Land Use Systems Transformation

06 07 21

This report finds that small, targeted changes in food and land use systems can trigger large, often irreversible, positive responses for people and the planet. It proposes a new framework that shows how different actors – from policymakers to consumers – can all help generate the much-needed transformation.

FOLU’s Growing Better report, published in 2019, set out a reform agenda centred around ten critical transitions which would help deliver on climate and biodiversity goals, ensure healthy and sustainable diets for all, improve food security and create more resilient rural economies. While momentum for food and land use systems transformation has increased since the Growing Better’s release, change to date has not been delivered at the speed or scale required.

It is against this backdrop that FOLU is exploring the potential of positive tipping points. These points, as defined in this report, refer to small economic, political, technological and socio-ecological changes with the potential to unlock system-wide shifts.

The current report picks up where Growing Better left off, and provides a framework for triggering positive tipping points towards three of these transition areas: Promoting Healthy Diets, Scaling Productive and Regenerative Agriculture, and Protecting and Restoring Nature. It outlines the enabling conditions required for each and provides recommended actions for stakeholders.

Accelerating the 10 Critical Transitions

Positive Tipping Points for Food and Land Use Systems Transformation

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This report finds that small, targeted changes in food and land use systems can trigger large, often irreversible, positive responses for people and the planet. It proposes a new framework that shows how different actors – from policymakers to consumers – can all help generate the much-needed transformation.

FOLU’s Growing Better report, published in 2019, set out a reform agenda centred around ten critical transitions which would help deliver on climate and biodiversity goals, ensure healthy and sustainable diets for all, improve food security and create more resilient rural economies. While momentum for food and land use systems transformation has increased since the Growing Better’s release, change to date has not been delivered at the speed or scale required.

It is against this backdrop that FOLU is exploring the potential of positive tipping points. These points, as defined in this report, refer to small economic, political, technological and socio-ecological changes with the potential to unlock system-wide shifts.

The current report picks up where Growing Better left off, and provides a framework for triggering positive tipping points towards three of these transition areas: Promoting Healthy Diets, Scaling Productive and Regenerative Agriculture, and Protecting and Restoring Nature. It outlines the enabling conditions required for each and provides recommended actions for stakeholders.

Key messages

The Report Accelerating the 10 Critical Transitions: Positive Tipping Points for Food and Land Use Systems Transformation by the Food and Land Use Coalition and the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute, presents a new framework for triggering the economic, political, technological and socio-ecological changes that lead to positive, outsized ripple effects within food and land use systems.

Key figures

4.5

Trillion USD

a year in new business opportunities could be unlocked by 2030 with rapid food and land use systems transformation, accelerated by the triggering and scaling of positive tipping points.

20

of Europeans

now consider themselves flexitarian. 527 million USD was invested into alternative proteins in Europe in 2021.

1.17

Trillion USD

in economic benefits could be unlocked by 2030 with a shift towards sustainable and regenerative agriculture.

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