Food security

N.	Question	Answer	Validated Timestamp
Ex	What are the financial and technological solutions for food security systems?	Food security and climate resilient food systems. [1]
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1	What is the state of world hunger?	20 million people are suffering from hunger as of 2021, meanwhile global food demand continues to grow as the world’s population is expected to hit the mark of 9.6 billion by 2050.[2]
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2	How many countries signed up to develop national food systems?	Over 100
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3	What is the goal of the COP27?	Addressing climate related transition and transformation
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4	How much has the Green Climate Fund invested in climate change?	More than $1.6 billion [3]
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5	What are the three transformation pathways?	Support to resilient agriculture, support early warning systems for smallholder farmers, and reshape food supply chains [4]
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6	How can a potential food crisis be prevented or managed, according to the COP27 roundtable on food security?	Through an increase in agriculture productivity, a shift to resilient agriculture, reduction in losses in food production chain including through cooling solutions, and ensuring relevant measures are in place for sustained food security.[5]
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7	What are the impacts of climate change, as identified through science?	Loss of rural livelihoods and income; Loss of marine and coastal ecosystems and livelihoods; Loss of terrestrial and inland water ecosystems and livelihoods; food insecurity and break down of food systems.[6]
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8	What factors are impacting agriculture and food production?	Climate change impacts, both extreme weather and slow-onset events, and other challenges whether geopolitical, cost of finance or supply chain related.[7]
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9	What is the current state of the world's food productivity?	IPCC estimates that agricultural land productivity has already decreased by 21% compared to a scenario with no climate change, fueled by high temperatures and extreme rainfalls (damaging for soil health), along with increased levels of CO2 (reducing nutritional quality of crops).[8]
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10	What are the projections for global food security in the face of climate change?	A further 17% reduction in yields of coarse grains, oil seeds, wheat and rice is expected by 2050 for IPCC’s highest temperature increase scenario. Livestock production is also severely impacted by climate shocks, which are becoming increasingly frequent: 20-60% losses in animals count were recorded during serious drought events in the past decades.[9]
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11	Does agriculture contribute to climate change?	Yes. Besides being vulnerable to the impact of climate change, food systems are also a major contributor to GHG emissions (about one third of global emissions). Hence, it is imperative that food systems evolve to sustainably meet the growing demand globally.
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12	What are the questions to guide the discussion?	Questions for developing countries are: How to encourage the production and widespread adoption of native resilient crops and reduce reliance on imported food.[10]
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13	What are some other issues the roundtable seeks to ask and explore?	What technologies can empower higher productivity? How to increase access to sustainable cold chains in developing agricultural sectors.[11]
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14	What are the questions to guide the discussion for developed countries?	- What measures can be taken to engage private sector and communities in minimizing waste across the full agricultural value chain? - What actions can be taken to enhance research and development in relation to food production?[12]
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15	What are some roundtable questions to guide the discussion for international organisations?	- What mechanisms can be put in place to foster higher collaboration between developing and developed countries with a focus on technology transfer to enhance food security measures? - How can countries enhance the resilience of small holders farmers and ensure their livelihoods and shift to more climate-resilient agriculture?[13]
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16	What issues can the financial institutions address in the area of food security?	- How to employ de-risking techniques, e.g. first loss guarantees, to reduce cost of loans for the agriculture sector. - Exploring how to apply solutions that were employed for other sectors and could be brought more into play in the agriculture sector.[14]
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17	What issues can the private sector explore in the area of food security?	Financial and technological solutions for achieving just transition for food security and climate resilient food systems.[15]
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18	How can we shift towards sustainable global food systems?	The COP27 Agenda recognises three fronts that can drive this shift: - Producing in climate smart/sustainable ways that will continue to improve productivity while lowering emissions and enhancing the resilience of food production to extreme weather and shocks - Reducing food loss - Shaping demand for food towards diets that can remain within planetary boundaries
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19	How much food is lost globally every year?	Currently ~33% of global food production is lost across harvesting, transportation and consumption stages.[16]
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20	What is the purpose of the roundtable?	To identify ways of coming together to collectively tackle the present and future of food security worldwide.[17]
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