Climate change and nutrition: Creating a climate for nutrition security
Climate change further exacerbates the enormous existing burden of undernutrition. It affects food and nutrition security and undermines current efforts to reduce hunger and promote nutrition. Undernutrition in turn undermines climate resilience and the coping strategies of vulnerable populations.Th...
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| author | Tirado, Maria Cristina Crahay, Philippe Mahy, Lina Zanev, Catherine Neira, Maria Msangi, Siwa Brown, Rebecca Scaramella, Carlo Costa Coitinho, Denise Müller, Alexander |
| author_browse | Brown, Rebecca Costa Coitinho, Denise Crahay, Philippe Mahy, Lina Msangi, Siwa Müller, Alexander Neira, Maria Scaramella, Carlo Tirado, Maria Cristina Zanev, Catherine |
| author_facet | Tirado, Maria Cristina Crahay, Philippe Mahy, Lina Zanev, Catherine Neira, Maria Msangi, Siwa Brown, Rebecca Scaramella, Carlo Costa Coitinho, Denise Müller, Alexander |
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| description | Climate change further exacerbates the enormous existing burden of undernutrition. It affects food and nutrition security and undermines current efforts to reduce hunger and promote nutrition. Undernutrition in turn undermines climate resilience and the coping strategies of vulnerable populations.The objectives of this paper are to identify and undertake a cross-sectoral analysis of the impacts of climate change on nutrition security and the existing mechanisms, strategies, and policies to address them.A cross-sectoral analysis of the impacts of climate change on nutrition security and the mechanisms and policies to address them was guided by an analytical framework focused on the three ‘underlying causes’ of undernutrition: 1) household food access, 2) maternal and child care and feeding practices, 3) environmental health and health access. The analytical framework includes the interactions of the three underlying causes of undernutrition with climate change, vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation.Within broad efforts on climate change mitigation and adaptation and climate-resilient development, a combination of nutrition-sensitive adaptation and mitigation measures, climate-resilient and nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, social protection, improved maternal and child care and health, nutrition-sensitive risk reduction and management, community development measures, nutrition-smart investments, increased policy coherence, and institutional and cross-sectoral collaboration are proposed as a means to address the impacts of climate change to food and nutrition security. This paper proposes policy directions to address nutrition in the climate change agenda and recommendations for consideration by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).Nutrition and health stakeholders need to be engaged in key climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives, including science-based assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and policies and actions formulated by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Improved multi-sectoral coordination and political will is required to integrate nutrition-sensitive actions into climate-resilient sustainable development efforts in the UNFCCC work and in the post 2015 development agenda. Placing human rights at the center of strategies to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change and international solidarity is essential to advance sustainable development and to create a climate for nutrition security. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1529862025-10-16T08:35:05Z Climate change and nutrition: Creating a climate for nutrition security Tirado, Maria Cristina Crahay, Philippe Mahy, Lina Zanev, Catherine Neira, Maria Msangi, Siwa Brown, Rebecca Scaramella, Carlo Costa Coitinho, Denise Müller, Alexander adaptation agriculture climate change therapeutic diets food security health nutrition undernutrition sustainable development risk analysis mitigation risk reduction Climate change further exacerbates the enormous existing burden of undernutrition. It affects food and nutrition security and undermines current efforts to reduce hunger and promote nutrition. Undernutrition in turn undermines climate resilience and the coping strategies of vulnerable populations.The objectives of this paper are to identify and undertake a cross-sectoral analysis of the impacts of climate change on nutrition security and the existing mechanisms, strategies, and policies to address them.A cross-sectoral analysis of the impacts of climate change on nutrition security and the mechanisms and policies to address them was guided by an analytical framework focused on the three ‘underlying causes’ of undernutrition: 1) household food access, 2) maternal and child care and feeding practices, 3) environmental health and health access. The analytical framework includes the interactions of the three underlying causes of undernutrition with climate change, vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation.Within broad efforts on climate change mitigation and adaptation and climate-resilient development, a combination of nutrition-sensitive adaptation and mitigation measures, climate-resilient and nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, social protection, improved maternal and child care and health, nutrition-sensitive risk reduction and management, community development measures, nutrition-smart investments, increased policy coherence, and institutional and cross-sectoral collaboration are proposed as a means to address the impacts of climate change to food and nutrition security. This paper proposes policy directions to address nutrition in the climate change agenda and recommendations for consideration by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).Nutrition and health stakeholders need to be engaged in key climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives, including science-based assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and policies and actions formulated by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Improved multi-sectoral coordination and political will is required to integrate nutrition-sensitive actions into climate-resilient sustainable development efforts in the UNFCCC work and in the post 2015 development agenda. Placing human rights at the center of strategies to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change and international solidarity is essential to advance sustainable development and to create a climate for nutrition security. 2013-12 2024-10-01T13:55:26Z 2024-10-01T13:55:26Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152986 en Limited Access SAGE Publications Tirado, Maria Cristina; Crahay, Philippe; Mahy, Lina; Zanev, Catherine; Neira, Maria; Msangi, Siwa; Brown, Rebecca; Scaramella, Carlo; Costa Coitinho, Denise; and Müller, Alexander. 2013. Climate change and nutrition: Creating a climate for nutrition security. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 34(4): 533-547. https://doi.org/10.1177/156482651303400415 |
| spellingShingle | adaptation agriculture climate change therapeutic diets food security health nutrition undernutrition sustainable development risk analysis mitigation risk reduction Tirado, Maria Cristina Crahay, Philippe Mahy, Lina Zanev, Catherine Neira, Maria Msangi, Siwa Brown, Rebecca Scaramella, Carlo Costa Coitinho, Denise Müller, Alexander Climate change and nutrition: Creating a climate for nutrition security |
| title | Climate change and nutrition: Creating a climate for nutrition security |
| title_full | Climate change and nutrition: Creating a climate for nutrition security |
| title_fullStr | Climate change and nutrition: Creating a climate for nutrition security |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate change and nutrition: Creating a climate for nutrition security |
| title_short | Climate change and nutrition: Creating a climate for nutrition security |
| title_sort | climate change and nutrition creating a climate for nutrition security |
| topic | adaptation agriculture climate change therapeutic diets food security health nutrition undernutrition sustainable development risk analysis mitigation risk reduction |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152986 |
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