Reorienting agri-food chains to hinder climate change and food security threats
12 - 13 September, 2024 | Chania, Crete, Greece | Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, CIHEAM MAI.Chania
Theme
Aiming towards more resilient and robust food systems is key to achieving food security, which is even more threatened by the impacts of climate change.
At the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Paris Agreement recognized “the fundamental priority of safeguarding food security and ending hunger and the particular vulnerabilities of food systems to the adverse impacts of climate change”.
Even now, several challenges have been delaying the implementation and positive changes towards resilient food systems. Against this backdrop, the European Green Deal aspires to tackle these challenges by adopting policies that promote biodiversity, sustainable production and efficient distribution.
Food systems’ failures may also depend on consumer choices and the extent to which consumers can influence these systems. In this framework, the reorientation of the agri-food value chain, by mobilizing the market and social drivers (including processors, retailers and consumers), could be a possible solution in supporting sustainable agri-food systems with reduced vulnerability, which in turn, can result in substantial benefits at economic, social and environmental levels, such as climate change and food insecurity mitigation.
Objectives
The 188th EAAE seminar’s objectives are to bring together scholars and researchers in the field, as well as stakeholders from supply chains and businesses, that will exchange ideas, practices and research initiatives that cover most of the current food systems, biodiversity and agri-food chain developments for assisting policy-making decisions in agriculture and the agri-food industry.
In particular, the Seminar aspires to create a forum for the promotion of food systems’ resilience through biodiverse supply chains in the global agri-food sector. Therefore, both empirical and methodological research papers are equally welcome. Selected papers presented at the seminar will be published in an Editor’s multi-authored book.