The Secret Ingredient: How Rethinking Supply Chains Can Provide a Recipe to Decarbonize the Food System
Even before COVID and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, global hunger was on the rise – almost 830 million people are undernourished, nearly 10% of the global population. There is a twin challenge around food: while hunger and food insecurity are growing, affected by a heating climate, the food system itself is one of the main drivers of climate change, contributing a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and consuming almost a third of the world’s total energy demand. To achieve our goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 with greater prosperity for all, we need to rethink how the world produces, processes, distributes and consumes food.
We will discuss and propose actionable solutions on the following:
- How can we tackle the twin challenges of food production and emissions reduction?
- What does it take to make food supply chains more (energy) efficient?
- How can actors in the food supply chains collaborate more effectively and efficiently?
- What are the roles for farmers, manufacturers and retailers?
- What are the most promising scalable and actionable approaches we can adopt?