Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use (Academic PDF)

16 09 19

There is a remarkable opportunity to transform food and land use systems, but as the challenges are growing, we need to act with great urgency. The global report from the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) proposes a reform agenda – centred around ten critical transitions – of real actionable solutions. These could deliver the needed change to boost progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, help mitigate the negative effects of climate change, safeguard biodiversity, ensure more healthy diets for all, drastically improve food security and create more inclusive rural economies. We can do this all while reaping a societal return that is more than 15 times the related investment cost (estimated at less than 0.5 percent of global GDP) and generating new business opportunities worth up to $4.5 trillion a year by 2030.

Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use (Academic PDF)

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There is a remarkable opportunity to transform food and land use systems, but as the challenges are growing, we need to act with great urgency. The global report from the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) proposes a reform agenda – centred around ten critical transitions – of real actionable solutions. These could deliver the needed change to boost progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, help mitigate the negative effects of climate change, safeguard biodiversity, ensure more healthy diets for all, drastically improve food security and create more inclusive rural economies. We can do this all while reaping a societal return that is more than 15 times the related investment cost (estimated at less than 0.5 percent of global GDP) and generating new business opportunities worth up to $4.5 trillion a year by 2030.

Key figures

12

Trillion USD

a year in damage to people and the planet. If we do nothing, this will amount to $16 trillion a year by 2050.

4.5

Trillion USD

in new business opportunities.

300-350

Billion USD

investment required each year by 2030.

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