How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative

Mosnier, A., Schmidt-Traub, G., Obersteiner, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6981-2769, Jones, S., Javalera Rincón, V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8743-9777, DeClerck, F., Thomson, M., Sperling, F., Harrison, P., Pérez Guzmán, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5189-6570, McCord, G.C., Navarro-Garcia, J., Marcos-Martinez, R., Wu, G.C., Poncet, J., Douzal, C., Steinhauser, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5989-6855, Monjeau, A., Frank, F., Lehtonen, H., et al. (2022). How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative. Sustainability Science 18 (1) 335-345. 10.1007/s11625-022-01227-7.

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Abstract

There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium to reconcile both global and national elements for developing national food and land-use system pathways. This approach includes three key features: (1) global targets, (2) country-driven multi-objective pathways, and (3) multiple iterations of pathway refinement informed by both national and international impacts. This approach strengthens policy coherence and highlights where greater national and international ambition is needed to achieve global goals (e.g., the SDGs). We discuss how this could be used to support future climate and biodiversity negotiations and what further developments would be needed.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Part of a Special Feature: Globally-Consistent National Pathways towards Sustainable Food and Land-use Systems
Research Programs:	Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) > Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) > Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) > Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) > Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) > Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
Depositing User:	Luke Kirwan
Date Deposited:	06 Oct 2022 08:21
Last Modified:	04 Apr 2023 12:27
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/18268

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