Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss

Launch of the new Chatham House report, ‘Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss’, in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Compassion in World Farming.

Biodiversity, crucial to human and planetary health, is declining faster than at any time in human history. Humanity relies on the earth’s natural systems to regulate the environment, maintain a habitable planet and produce food. Paradoxically, however, the way we have been producing food over the last 50 years has been driving biodiversity loss. 

This special session reviews the impacts our global food system has on biodiversity and explores the ways in which we can achieve nature-friendly and biodiversity-supporting food production.

Speakers:
Susan Gardner, Director - Ecosystems Division, UNEP
Professor Tim Benton, Research Director – Emerging Risks, Chatham House
Philip Lymbery, Global CEO, Compassion in World Farming
Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder – the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

Panel participants:
Louise Mabulo, Founder - The Cacao Project
Lana Weidgenant, Vice-Chair of Shifting to Sustainable Consumption Patterns, UN Food Systems Summit.

The session is moderated by James Lomax, UN Food Systems & Agriculture Adviser, UNEP, and Secondee to the UN Food Systems Summit Secretariat.

[galatei]

Great report, nice to see faces behind the programmes.

[galatei]

one point regarding the alternative proteins is that they are more ethical, and there's a chance that animals will be treated a lot better than as a simple source of food in places where people don't care.

[carineyallouz]

Dommage qu'il n'y ai pas la traduction française

[ponente]

What about addressing the huge elephant in the room: OVERPOPULATION?
Reducing our growth will automatically reduce our food demand, the cutting down of forests, the encroachment on other creatures habitats, pollution, global warming... in short it will reduce every single man-made problem. We need education, women's emancipation and free family planning all over the world.
Why are we so unwilling to face this?