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Article

4 Dec 2015

Author:
Emma Bryce, Guardian (UK)

Food at COP21: three new initiatives spotlight food insecurity, soils, waste

…Continuing on the current climate trajectory will mean a future of profound food insecurity, especially for developing nations…[T]hese concerns have been prominent…at the COP21…[A]griculture had its own dedicated focus-day…the Lima-Paris Action Agenda (LPAA)…The world needs creative solutions…Here are three that caught my eye…[T]he World Food Program and the U.K.’s Met Office Hadley Centre launched a new, interactive mapping tool that predicts…how future climate scenarios could influence food security, especially in the world’s developing nations…[T]he Food Insecurity and Climate Change Vulnerability Map shows how food security could change at the individual country level…[H]undreds of partners joined to launch ‘4/1000’, an initiative designed to increase the storage of carbon in the earth…[T]he Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the International Food Policy Research Institute announced that…they’re launching a new platform that will encourage G20 member countries, the private sector, and NGOs to pool their resources toward the goal of fighting food waste…