Ninth International Conference on Food Studies

Abstract

Today the need for a sustainable agriculture sector and clear pathways to cost-effective and quality food remains top of our concerns. Agriculture today remains one of the key sectors for most of the greenhouse gas emissions globally that are causing global warming and climate change. This fact has led to the need to have policies that simultaneously address climate change and sustainable development that ensures food accessibility, quality, and food security are achieved through a sustainable agriculture sector. Hence the birth of Climate Compatible Development (CCD) which is “development that minimizes the harm caused by climate impacts while maximizing the many human development opportunities presented by a low emission, more resilient, future.” The main goal of this research was to assess whether CCD as a model for policymakers in developing countries has the potential to develop a sustainable agriculture sector with co-benefits whereby food availability, quality, and security is ensured and at the same time climate change impacts are reduced or minimized. This research concluded that CCD is a unique model in combating climate change and ensuring to it that food quality, access, and food security is ensured, however, this particular model has a lot of challenges in delivering a triple win opportunity in Bangladesh. The findings were that, while the idea of an integral approach (CCD) in the fight against climate change and pursuit for a sustainable agriculture system that ensures food quality, availability and food security is attained, this model remains very highly context-specific, sector-specific and highly debatable.