Jessica Fanzo POLICY SEMINAR Climate resilience, sustainable food systems, and healthy diets: Can we have it all? OCT 31, 2017 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT

1. The Food System & Nutrition:
Bringing itTogether
Jessica Fanzo, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Global Food & Agriculture Policy & Ethics
Director of the Global Food Policy & Ethics Program

2. The Challenge
• The food system is highly sensitive to climate, being both a “victim”
and an “instigator” of the effects of climate variability and change.
• Climate-smart agriculture is one approach that has shown promise
in addressing these challenges, but more evidence and action are
needed to link climate-smart agricultural approaches to diets and
nutrition.

3. HLPE 2017 Report Nutrition and Food Systems

4. Disruptions to Food System, Food Environments & Diets
Production Storage
Marketing
and Retail
Consumption
and
Utilization
• Heat and
water
stress
• Pests
• Diseases
•Yields
• Nutritional
Value
• Pathogens,
mycotoxins
• Cold
storage
needs
•
Food
prices
• Food
availability
• Nutritional
needs
• Consumption
• Intestinal
nutrient
absorption
•
Food
waste
Fanzo et al 2017 IFPRI Working Paper

5. Climate Related Deaths: Dietary Risk Factors
Springmann et al 2016 Lancet
The negative health effects associated with reductions in fruit and vegetable
consumption lead to 534 000 climate-related deaths

6. NutritionalValue of Crops
Myers et al Lancet 2015

7. Entry and exit points for increasing net nutrition
along the food value chain under climate change

8. How to make the food chain more climate-smart
AND more nutrition-smart
More
evidence-
based
research
Specific
guidance
Mitigating andAdapting
to CC at EACH step of the food
value chain
O
N

9. Food ForThought
• Think beyond production: climate change will impact the entire food system and the way food moves
through chains; people don’t eat commodities, they have dietary patterns with a diverse set of foods
(i.e. not just maize, wheat and rice)
• Incorporate diets into your work: Supply will answer to demand: the demand for certain diets will
impact climate change, not just a one-way relationship of supply driving demand
• Easy to say “decrease consumption of animal source foods”: But how?Which? And at what cost?
• Achieving human and planetary health: Is it even possible to have both and if yes, what are the trade-
offs we are willing to live with?
• Expand the set of environmental indicators (beyond GHGe):When examining the impacts of diets
• To understand “near term” effects of seasonality: These influence nutrition outcomes and access to
healthy, diverse diets
• Can other drivers of food system change be modeled?The nutrition transition, social unrest/conflict,
geopolitics, …theTrump effect?

10. ThankYou!
• Rebecca McLaren
• Claire Davis
• Jowel Choufani
• Claudia Ringler
• TimThomas
• Siwa Msangi
• Ruth Meinzen-Dick