
COP27 Side-Event: Climate-resilient Food Systems and Peace: Exploring the Interconnections
Key Policy Recommendations
This document presents six key recommendations resulting from the COP27 Side Event on 11 November 2022, "Climate-resilient Food Systems and Peace: Exploring the Interconnections." Panelists discussed the interconnection between climate change, food insecurity and conflict, which are present in a number of vulnerable environments worldwide, and currently be witnessed in Pakistan and the Horn of Africa. Acknowledging the compounding effects between climate change, food insecurity, and conflicts is key to developing effective multi-sectoral initiatives that contribute to building resilient, food secure and peaceful societies. Whilst there is increased awareness of this interconnection, there is space for much greater integrated action.

Climate Security and Food Systems Workstream
Summary of Meetings 1 and 2
The objective of the Climate, Security, and Food systems workstream of the Fighting Food Crises along the HDP Nexus Coalition is broadly to synthesise and collate existing evidence with regard to the connection between climate and conflict, particularly for the purposes of unpacking exactly how impacts in climatic and ecological systems may cascade into political and economic systems. Food systems occupy a key position in this landscape, with around a quarter of those facing chronic food insecurity worldwide living in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCASs), contexts which are also frequently amongst the most vulnerable to climate change impacts. Climate change is therefore likely to continue driving the confluence between conventional security issues – such as terrorism or insurgency – and non-conventional human security issues, such as food insecurity, and a loss of livelihoods, yet robust localised and policy-relevant evidence on these links is still lacking. This workstream aims to respond to demands for capacity and evidence building on this topic to maximise the co-benefits of climate adaptation and resilience building for peace and security.

Looming Food Insecurity in Eastern Africa
50 million people are projected to face severe acute food insecurity by the end of 2022
Ministers and Heads of Delegations from IGAD Member States (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda) and humanitarian partners met on 6-7 October 2022 in Nairobi during a high-level regional meeting on national and regional efforts to address the persistent food crises in eastern Africa. They have collectively affirmed a joint commitment to develop a comprehensive ‘roadmap’ that prioritizes scaling up famine prevention, strengthens food systems, enhances resilience, and improves cross-border trade within the IGAD region.

Food Crises and COVID-19: Emerging evidence and implications for action
Photo Gallery of the virtual side-event 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly

CFS 46 Side Event: SE100 Stopping and reversing the trends in food crises.
Photo Gallery of CFS 46 Side Event