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Slow Food: COP27 ends, polluting food systems remain 

Slow Food: COP27 ends, polluting food systems remain 

COP27 was meant to be the “Implementation COP”, but after two weeks of negotiations, existing pledges and national plans remain insufficient to reach the Paris agreement 1.5-degree target. Although food and agriculture have been higher up the agenda than at any previous round of climate talks, solutions put forward to help tackle their dramatic impact on climate change do not challenge the current status-quo, confirming once more the overrepresentation of the agrifood industry’s interests.

Slow Food: COP26 addresses agriculture but focuses on false solutions

Slow Food: COP26 addresses agriculture but focuses on false solutions

After two days of discussion on “Nature and Land Use”, the session that included the issue of sustainable agriculture, came to an end today at Cop 26.

Slow Food believes that the very approach to this issue was flawed: talking about sustainable agriculture without considering the food system as a whole is wrong. The proposed solutions that emerged seemed to go in two different and separate directions, presented as complementary: reforestation on the one hand and technological innovation in agriculture on the other.