In the research, a consortium of scientists and economists found that transforming food systems across the world could prevent 174 million premature deaths, help the world meet its climate goals and provide economic benefits of $5 trillion to $10 trillion. "We have an amazing food system," said Vera Songwe, an economist with the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and part of the Food System Economics Commission (FSEC), which produced the report. Researchers estimated total underappreciated costs from food systems of up to $15 trillion a year. The authors also compared computer modelling of the consequences by 2050 of continuing current trends and of a hypothetical food system transformation. They said that on the current pathway, food systems alone will push global warming above the Paris Deal's more ambitious threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius since preindustrial times.

Source: Manila Times February 02, 2024 22:02 UTC