Central America seeks synergies between climate action and food security

22/02/2024

Central America seeks synergies between climate action and food security

Representatives from the portfolios of Environment, Agriculture and Health come together to build bridges between the three areas.
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The Central American Commission for Environment and Development together with the Central American Council for Agriculture are working on an initiative that links agriculture and the environment, with the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2040. FIIAPP, through the EU-funded EU4SUN project, has joined this conversation to include the area of health and food.

Within this framework, a meeting was organized in Panama to identify synergies that support climate action and food security in the region, as well as to develop a catalog of nature-based solutions (NBS) for the sector, led by the Executive Secretariat of the Council.

This project against hunger and malnutrition seeks to identify incentives for the implementation of BNS, as well as to initiate a discussion on opportunities for their promotion in Central America based on public policy incentives and innovation.

Agriculture suffers the consequences of environmental degradation and at the same time causes it. For this reason, there is currently a debate on how to improve sustainability at all stages of food production in order to preserve biodiversity, strengthen resilience to climate change and improve the efficiency of agricultural systems.

The rescue of ancestral knowledge and food properties in traditional food systems, the exploration of new sustainable uses and reuse of production residues, as well as strategies for diet diversification, constitute nature-based production solutions that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies and to a sustainable and resilient productive transformation in Central America. BNS are particularly relevant for the Central American region because of its natural capital and the role of agriculture in food security.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the pandemic and the economic crisis have aggravated inequalities and food insecurity. Climate change affects production and health, especially in vulnerable communities. The aim is to promote sustainable diets to save money and improve food security, with a focus on biodiversity and climate resilience.