Feeding resilience: Managing the nexus of climate change, food systems and security
When: 8 October 2024 | 15:30-16:40
Format: Panel discussion
Venue: Plenary room (Weltsaal)
Hosted by: Center for Climate and Security
Global hunger is worsening humanitarian emergencies, food prices are driving instability, climate change is threatening the global food system, and extremists and geopolitical challengers are capitalizing. These challenges present a vicious cycle, including upheaval resulting from food price shocks, the targeting and weaponization of scarce food in conflict, global hunger sapping foreign assistance, and decimated farming livelihoods driving instability and displacement.
Global hunger is worsening humanitarian emergencies, food prices are driving instability, climate change is threatening the global food system, and extremists and geopolitical challengers are capitalizing. These challenges present a vicious cycle, including upheaval resulting from food price shocks, the targeting and weaponization of scarce food in conflict, global hunger sapping foreign assistance, and decimated farming livelihoods driving instability and displacement.
Tackling these intersecting challenges requires coordination among the food, climate change, peace and security communities, and pursuing no regrets interventions with co-benefits across this nexus. This session will allow for a conversation among practitioners, affected countries, donor governments, and NGOs in all three sectors to discuss best practices for alignment. Participants will discuss how investments in climate resilience and food systems can deliver peace and security benefits and how to better prepare for security and conflict shocks that affect food systems and climate response.
As leaders prepare for a fall that includes the G20, COP29, and IDA replenishment, this discussion will feed into those efforts, convening key stakeholders to:
- Identify obstacles and opportunities at the climate-food-security nexus;
- Emphasize the peace and security co-benefits of smart climate resilience and food systems investments;
- Discuss gaps and opportunities going forward; and
- Highlight concrete policy recommendations, including those from the CCS Feeding Resilience project.
Speakers:
- H.E. Amb. Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Guyana to the United Nations (New York)
- Dr. Daniel Abrahams, Senior Climate Security Advisor, United States Agency for International Develpment (USAID)
- Sara Alawia, Gender and knowledge specialist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Moderated by Erin Sikorsky, Director, Center for Climate and Security
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