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An agreement has been signed off at Cop28 in Dubai, with great fanfare and backslapping among the delegates. Finally, amid all the proverbial eraser marks, was left least a shift towards acknowledging that fossil fuels need to be phased down.
But what such international agreements exclude is often more startling than what they include. Despite promises that food production would be on the table at this Cop it wasn't. There was no reference to tackling the third of all greenhouse gas emissions that come from our current food systems. These systems were unfair and failing people way before the current awareness of the crisis in our climate.
The UN's agencies are warning anyone who will listen that they are losing of the ability to feed the most needy in the world's trouble zones, while hunger is a key driver behind migration. A radical look is needed to see what changes can be made to make food supplies sustainable and available so we actually do feed the world – at Christmas and every other time of year.
No one should have to go hungry and no one should eat when the price is starvation for others. But without proper reform built in to climate mitigation, only the few are going to be at the table.
Tracy McVeigh
Editor, Global Development

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