Bolstering the global food supply chain

“Agriculture underpins the livelihoods of more than 2,5 billion people worldwide. Given the sector’s innate interactions with the environment, its direct reliance on natural resources for production, and its significance for national socio-economic development, urgent and ambitious action is needed to build more resilient agricultural systems. Hazardous events need not devolve into full-blown disasters; risks need not become insurmountable. Disaster risk can be reduced and managed.

Disasters threaten all three pillars of sustainable development: social, environmental and economic. This is happening more rapidly and unpredictably than anticipated, across multiple sectors, dimensions and scales. Agriculture continues to bear the brunt of disaster impacts as new risks and correlations emerge.