In its final report, the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change proposes specific policy responses to the global challenge of feeding a world confronted by climate change, population growth, poverty, food price spikes and degraded ecosystems. The report gives a complete overview of the current state of the food system and specifies a holistic approach to transforming the food system and defining a path towards long-term sustainability. It highlights specific opportunities under the mandates of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Group of 20 (G20) nations. This report seeks to elevate discussion of the interconnected dimensions of sustainable agriculture, food security and climate change, and to communicate the importance of investments in self-sustaining rural development, as well as in new tools and information systems to support governance of sustainable agriculture and the food system. In addition, it emphasizes the need for a revitalized global architecture for agreeing and delivering essential investments in sustainable agriculture and food systems; an architecture that incorporates lessons learned about the importance of ‘bottom-up’ approaches with strong connections to global policy development. This means striving to move beyond ‘silos’ and building linkages among policy processes.
