Our food systems are a significant source of nature’s decline. According to the IPBES Global Assessment report, since 1970, land-use change, mainly for agriculture, has had the greatest negative impact on nature, with more than one-third of land surface now used for crops and livestock farming. Unsustainable food production and consumption patterns are also driving climate change, fueling obesity and hunger, and leaving humans vulnerable to disease.
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