Description

This Initiative facilitates change through the following CHANGE PATHWAYS: (1) improving transparency, accuracy, completeness, comparability, and consistency of data for planning, monitoring, and reporting; (2) strengthening local and national planning and coordination to integrate socially inclusive food system changes that reduce GHG emissions and create sinks in production systems, improve sinks in stable natural ecosystems, reduce food loss/waste, and reduce the GHG intensity of supply chains; (3) applying food systems approaches in living labs and incorporating lessons into scaling up approaches; (4) scaling up best practices in next generation Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and mitigation actions by creating enabling environments, including sustainable financing opportunities; and (5) fostering greater international and national integration of food system solutions that contribute to GHG mitigation targets. This initiative will reduce food system GHG emissions by 1.18GtCO2e y-1 and enhance sinks (OUTCOME).

Mitigate+ research for low emission food systems is one of the research initiatives of the new CGIAR research portfolio, that delivers science and innovation to transform food, water and land systems in the climate crisis. It focuses on reducing GHGs emissions in food systems through five work packages. CIFOR leads WP1 at a global level and in all five WPs. It will also support WP3 at global level and in Kenya and Vietnam.