For too long we have tended to look at climate change, food security and poverty challenges separately. In today’s world, this is a mistake. We know that:

• 75% of the world’s poor live in rural areas.


• Agricultural production will need to increase by 70% by 2050 in order to feed 9 billion people.


• Climate models predict a much more uncertain climate for world agriculture, with potentially devastating down-side possibilities, and


• Agriculture, forestry and land use change account for 30% of greenhouse gas emissions – and that we cannot succeed in the battle against climate change without including these elements.


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