Wheat prices internationally have soared due to the conflict in Ukraine. Consequently, the countries with the greatest reliance on Ukraine and Russia, the world’s top wheat producers and suppliers, will be in the gravest danger.
Interregional for Strategic Analysis recently stressed that efforts to make food and agriculture systems more equitable, accessible and sustainable will receive unprecedented attention at COP 28 hosted by the UAE later this year.
The COP28 UAE Presidency launched its Food Systems and Agriculture Agenda. This forms part of its continued work to define the COP28 Action Agenda leading into this year’s climate conference.
The Presidency, represented by Mariam Almheiri, UAE Minister for Climate Change and Environment and COP28 Food Systems Lead, called on governments to demonstrate leadership by signing the first-ever Leaders Declaration on Food Systems, Agriculture and Climate Action, during the Food Systems Summit in Rome.
The COP28 Presidency will call upon a diverse group of stakeholders in the food and agriculture sector to accelerate existing initiatives across food systems, agriculture, and climate action.
In a joint session on Food Systems and Climate Action at the UN Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment, co-chaired by, Mariam Almheiri and Antonio Tajani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, Almheiri highlighted the need to urgently increase the resilience of climate-vulnerable farmers and reduce food system-related emissions.
She emphasized that the recalibration will also contribute to realizing both the Paris Agreement and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
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