The Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy (FABLE) Consortium recently published its second global report analyzing pathways for 20 countries to develop sustainable land-use and food systems.

The FABLE Consortium is convened as part of the Food and Land-Use Coalition (FOLU), a community of organizations and individuals committed to transforming the food system. Teams of researchers from 20 different countries make up the consortium. Each team develops the data and infrastructure to create food system solutions specific to their country.

In the report, Pathways to Sustainable Land-Use and Food Systems, FABLE takes the aggregate data and proposes frameworks for countries to meet the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the objectives of the Paris Agreement, such as the 2°C climate target.

“Our main objective is to show how integrated long-term pathways can support countries in their efforts to meet mid-century objectives on food security, climate mitigation, and biodiversity conservation,” Aline Mosnier, FABLE Scientific Director, tells Food Tank. “Our findings suggest that this is possible but will require profound and rapid transformation of countries’ food and land-use systems.”

The report notes that conventional practices cannot continue — land-use and food systems are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture is also the main global driver of biodiversity loss.

Its conclusions are informed by tools like the open-access, custom-built FABLE Calculator. Helping to connect the scientific and policy communities, the open-source calculator is an Excel accounting tool used to study the potential evolution of food and land-use systems.

Read the full article about food systems change by Amanda Fong at Food Tank.