Our key takeaway: Our agrifood systems are fragile, and the FAO highlights the urgent need to increase their resilience. This includes building the absorptive capacity of agrifood systems, and specifically building the resilience capacities of small-scale producers whose livelihoods are increasingly vulnerable to climate shocks and depletion of natural resources.
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) released ‘The State of Food and Agriculture 2021. Making agrifood systems more resilient to shocks and stresses’. Some highlights: