322 billion. This is how many potential hours of labour agriculture and farmers lost due to high temperatures in 2023.
Bloomberg News recently featured Dhanush – Clim-Eat’s founder and Chief Climate Catalyst – in a piece on the disconnect between emissions from food systems and the financing food systems receive.
A Climate Focus analysis shows that while small family farmers grow more than one-third of the world’s food, just 14% of the over 9 billion dollars in international public climate finance for agriculture and land use was targeted at activities most relevant to them.
But it gets worse: less than 3% of all public climate finance goes into food systems. And lest not forget that food systems remain responsible for about one-third of global emissions.
“Instead of spending diplomatic efforts each year creating a new initiative which makes everyone look good, the focus needs to shift to getting money, technology and capacity to farmers,” said Dhanush on the topic.
The full story is available in Bloomberg’s Green Daily.
