A new book presents main challenges in the food system and proposals for achieving long term sustainability in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations. Among the authors, CMCC researchers from IAFES – Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services Division.

The CMCC Foundation contributed to the book “Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Through Sustainable Food Systems” (Editors: Valentini, R., Sievenpiper, J., Antonelli, M., Dembska, K. (Eds.) that offers a systemic analysis of sustainability in the food system, taking as its framework the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations. Targeted chapters from experts in the field cover main challenges in the food system and propose methods for achieving long term sustainability.
More in detail, authors focus on how sustainability can be achieved along the whole food chain and in different contexts. Timely issues such as food security, climate change and migration and sustainable agriculture are discussed in depth.
The volume is unique in its multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach. The book is targeted towards the academic community and practitioners in the policy, international cooperation, nutrition, geography, and social sciences fields.

The CMCC Foundation contributed to the report, and in particular to the following book chapters:

Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: The World After the Paris Agreement
Antonio Bombelli, Arianna Di Paola, Maria Vincenza Chiriacò, Lucia Perugini, Simona Castaldi, Riccardo Valentini
Pages 25-34

Drivers of Migration in the Trans-Mediterranean Region: The Likely Role of Climate Change and Resource Security in the Geopolitical Context
Luca Caporaso, Monia Santini, Sergio Noce, Alberto de Sanctis, Lucio Caracciolo, Marta Antonelli
Pages 35-61

The Paris Agreement has recognized the fundamental priority of safeguarding food security and ending hunger, and the particular vulnerabilities of food production systems to the adverse impacts of climate change, and identified agriculture as a critical sector, not only impacted by climate change but also able to mitigate it. In the chapter “Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: The World After the Paris Agreement” the authors (among them, CMCC researchers Antonio Bombelli, Arianna Di Paola, Maria Vincenza Chiriacò, Lucia Perugini, Riccardo Valentini from IAFES – Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services Division in Viterbo, Italy), suggest different feasible options to address the challenges raised by the Paris Agreement, that is make agriculture contributing to the net emissions reduction while guaranteeing food security.
Some options embrace a number of actions aimed to manage the human demand-side drivers to make the food production and the food supply chain more virtuous, others are mitigation supply-side (land management policies) aimed to achieve more sustainable and resilient agricultural systems.

The chapter “Drivers of Migration in the Trans-Mediterranean Region: The Likely Role of Climate Change and Resource Security in the Geopolitical Context” (among the authors, CMCC researchers Luca Caporaso, Monia Santini, Sergio Noce, Marta Antonelli from IAFES Division) is focused on human migration. Human migration is expected to grow rapidly in the near future. In this context, the recent Trans-Mediterranean region raised particular interest for the variety of migration routes and of institutional, social, cultural and economic issues. Further, the region is affected by many threats due to the interactions of climate change vulnerability, water scarcity and land degradation with the needs of increasingly urbanized populations and environmentally-intensive food production. This study aims at deepen the knowledge about the potential nexus among climate, geopolitics and migration across the Trans-Mediterranean region, through a comprehensive analysis, based on well consolidated and scientifically sound methods and data, about the climate-related hazards and their consequences on water and food availability.

For more information, read the full version of the book and the single chapters:

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Through Sustainable Food Systems

Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: The World After the Paris Agreement
Antonio Bombelli, Arianna Di Paola, Maria Vincenza Chiriacò, Lucia Perugini, Simona Castaldi, Riccardo Valentini
Pages 25-34

Drivers of Migration in the Trans-Mediterranean Region: The Likely Role of Climate Change and Resource Security in the Geopolitical Context
Luca Caporaso, Monia Santini, Sergio Noce, Alberto de Sanctis, Lucio Caracciolo, Marta Antonelli
Pages 35-61