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Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)<\/u><\/p>\n
The global food system is impacted by the war in Ukraine, adding to the direct humanitarian and security crisis caused by the Russian aggression. Ukraine and Russia are major producers of grains and fertilizers, yet their exports are at risk of getting disrupted. However, agricultural policy-makers \u2013 like the EU ministers meeting on Monday \u2013 should not abandon sustainable farming practices just to increase grain production, a team of scientists argues. They propose three key measures to cope with the shocks. In a statement published today they highlight that, instead of focusing only on the supply side for e.g. animal feed, it is changing the demand side which can lead to both a more resilient and more sustainable global food system. <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cGlobal food insecurity is not caused by a shortage of food supply. It is caused by unequal distribution. There is more than enough food to feed the world, also now during this war. However, grains are fed to animals, used as biofuels, or wasted rather than filling the stomachs of hungry people.\u201d says Sabine Gabrysch from PIK, one of the co-authors.\u00a0 \u201cRolling back environmental regulation to scale up food production would not solve the crisis. It would move us even further away from a reliable food system that is resilient to future shocks and delivers healthy and sustainable diets.\u201d<\/p>\n In a statement signed by more than 180 experts from a number of countries, the scientists propose three levers for coping with the short-term shocks while also ensuring human health and long-term sustainable development:<\/p>\n Further short-term action from European governments should include providing funds to the World Food Programme to purchase grains and keeping trade open, including food trade to and from Russia, according to the statement. Social-security systems and food banks should be strengthened across the EU to avoid detrimental effects of rising food prices for poor households.<\/p>\n \u201cThis terrible war forces us to re-think established practices, especially in the food sector which already now experiences shock-waves transmitted by markets and caused by disruptions in Ukraine and Russia,\u201d says Marco Springmann from Oxford University, also a co-author. \u201cDiscussing dietary changes in face of the war is more significant than it might seem at first glance, in fact eating more plants instead of meat could make more food available to the world, simply because animal production is inefficient. We can and should react to the short-term crisis in ways that are also suitable to tackle long-term crises of the world food system.\u201d<\/p>\n Article: <\/strong>P\u00f6rtner, Lisa M., Lambrecht, Nathalie, Springmann, Marco, Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon, Gaupp, Franziska, Freund, Florian, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, & Gabrysch, Sabine. (2022). We need a food system transformation \u2013 in the face of the Ukraine war, now more than ever. [DOI: 10.5281\/zenodo.6366132]<\/p>\n Link to the article: <\/strong>https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/6366132<\/a><\/p>\n For further information please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n PIK press office less animal products, less waste, and greening EU agricultural policy Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) The global food system is impacted by the war in Ukraine, adding to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1968,1675,41,45,1808],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-conflict-resolution","category-economy","category-environment","category-food","category-global-capitalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17138"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17146,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions\/17146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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