
That spending could be redirected to finance food systems transformation—helping to reduce carbon footprints while boosting resilience, improving food and nutrition security, and enhancing poverty reduction and equity. Such restructuring or repurposing of agriculture subsidies is one of the proposed game-changing solutions for the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), and was the topic of a UNFSS Science Days official side event sponsored by IFPRI, the Indian Council for International Economic Research (ICRIER) and the Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy, China Agricultural University.
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