Journal Article
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative
Aline Mosnier; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Michael Obersteiner; Sarah Jones; Valeria Javalera-Rincon; Fabrice DeClerck; Marcus Thomson; Frank Sperling; Paula Harrison; Katya Pérez-Guzmán; Gordon Carlos McCord; Javier Navarro-Garcia; Raymundo Marcos-Martinez; Grace C. Wu; Jordan Poncet; Clara Douzal; Jan Steinhauser; Adrian Monjeau; Federico Frank; Heikki Lehtonen; Janne Rämö; Nicholas Leach; Charlotte E. Gonzalez-Abraham; Ranjan Kumar Ghosh; Chandan Jha; Vartika Singh; Zhaohai Bai; Xinpeng Jin; Lin Ma; Anton Strokov; Vladimir Potashnikov; Fernando Orduña-Cabrera; Rudolf Neubauer; Maria Diaz; Liviu Penescu; Efraín Antonio Domínguez; John Chavarro; Andres Pena; Shyam Basnet; Ingo Fetzer; Justin Baker; Hisham Zerriffi; René Reyes Gallardo; Brett Anthony Bryan; Michalis Hadjikakou; Hermann Lotze-Campen; Miodrag Stevanovic; Alison Smith; Wanderson Costa; A. H. F. Habiburrachman; Gito Immanuel; Odirilwe Selomane; Anne-Sophie Daloz; Robbie Andrew; Bob van Oort; Dative Imanirareba; Kiflu Gedefe Molla; Firew Bekele Woldeyes; Aline C. Soterroni; Marluce Scarabello; Fernando M. Ramos; Rizaldi Boer; Nurul Laksmi Winarni; Jatna Supriatna; Wai Sern Low; Andrew Chiah Howe Fan; François Xavier Naramabuye; Fidèle Niyitanga; Marcela Olguín; Alexander Popp; Livia Rasche; Charles Godfray; Jim W. Hall; Mike J. Grundy; Xiaoxi Wang
Sustainability Science · Vol. 18, Issue 1 · pp. 335-345 · 2023
Abstract
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium to reconcile both global and national elements for developing national food and land-use system pathways. This approach includes three key features: (1) global targets, (2) country-driven multi-objective pathways, and (3) multiple iterations of pathway refinement informed by both national and international impacts. This approach strengthens policy coherence and highlights where greater national and international ambition is needed to achieve global goals (e.g., the SDGs). We discuss how this could be used to support future climate and biodiversity negotiations and what further developments would be needed.