Food Security and Nutrition in the Age of Climate Change: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUMORGANIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF QUEBEC IN COLLABORATION WITH FAO

摘要

Thanks to the participation of 250 experts from all around the world, the International Symposium on Food Security and Nutrition in the Age of Climate Change (hereafter "Symposium") highlighted the importance of food and agricultural systems in the fight against climate change and presented concrete multi-sector solutions to address this global issue. As noted during the Opening Conference under the auspices of FAO, after steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, whilevarious forms of malnutrition coexist: two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies; 815 million are in a state of caloric deficit; nearly one in four children suffers from chronic malnutrition; 52 million children suffer from acute malnutrition; and two billion adults are overweight. Climate change is already exacerbating this grim picture, which is why food security and food production will be a major focus of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 6th Assessment Cycle. The Opening Conference thus set the tone for the four days of discussions that followed by providing an overview of the importance and complexity of the links between climate change, agricultural production (taken here to mean crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries, and aquaculture), food security, and nutrition. The Symposium placed special emphasis on the regional realities of West Africa and the Canadian North, as well as to the presence of young people and members of Indigenous and Northern communities directly affected by these issues.The summaries of these four days of plenaries, interactive workshops, and special events have been grouped under seven major themes for this publication: 1) Climate change, food security and nutrition, the issues; (2) The agriculture sectors in the context of climate change; (3) Food systems in the face of climate change; (4) Natural resources: challenges and solutions; (5) Food security and nutrition in a changing North; (6) Summary of solutions; (7) Strengthening and adapting regional and international cooperation.