Food systems contribute between 25% and 30% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Climate Smart Food Systems are necessary to slow climate change causing emissions. Agricultural practices, land use change and methane emissions from ruminant animals are the leading cause of food system GHG emissions and environmental degradation.

Humanitarian and development programs need to balance ethics and tradition with a scientific basis for food system, resilience and livelihoods that are climate smart. 

The humanitarian and development ecosystem needs to redirect activities to take account of the environmental degradation and climate change causing effects of some programming techniques. 

The Humanitarian Impact Institute will work with your program and portfolio to embed climate smart food system designs into your resilience, livelihoods, poverty reduction or agricultural project.