July 10, 2019

A transformation is urgently needed in the world’s food system to make it more resilient to climate change and to reduce its emissions, explains the Executive Director of the CGIAR System Organization in an op-ed.

Farmers in low- and middle-income countries are benefiting from CIMMYT’s improved maize and wheat varieties, suitable for drought- and disease-affected areas. (Photo: Apollo Habtamu/ILRI)

A new urgency is being felt on climate change. Schoolchildren are striking, there are protests in the streets, and politicians across the world, including the UK, are pushing to call climate change a national emergency.

A cruel irony is that climate change will not be felt equally by all—those who have contributed the least to rising temperatures are set to suffer the most.

Read the full op-ed in Diplomati Courier authored by Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Executive Director of the CGIAR System Organization, in Diplomatic Courier’s special G20 Edition:
https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/inequality-agriculture-and-climate-change-from-a-vicious-to-a-virtuous-circle

Website: http://www.cimmyt.org

Published: July 11, 2019