1、1.What critical challenges is WWFs Future Food Togetherinitiative tackling?2.What is WWFs Future Food Together initiative?3.What key factors are making WWFs Future Food Together effective in the Mekong region?4.Example innovative partnerships&market-based approaches5.Scalability&replicability lesson
2、s for the Greater Mekong subregion23Sources:(1)WWF Living Planet Report 2020,(2)WWF Driven to Waste 2022,(3)FAO State of Food Security and Nutrition 2023,(4)World Obesity Federation 2023,(5)Crippaet.al 2021(6)FAO,1999(7)Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit4In the past 20 years,Cambodia has
3、 been one of the fastest-growing economies on the globe.Malnutrition and hunger indicators have rapidly improved,but still 4.6%of the population is undernourished,and 21.9%of children under five are stunted.The agri-food sectors expansion was led by profitable crops like cassava and maize,some of wh
4、ich is used as feed for the also growing livestock sector,linked to increasing meat consumption.Agri-food sector growth was accompanied by environmental challenges,such as land conversion and deforestation,negatively impacting natural habitat and biodiversity,and leading to increased GHG emissions.5
5、The good news is that food systems are a critical part of the solution not just to hunger,health,and malnutrition,but to the nature and climate crises.By simultaneously adopting sustainable consumption and production(SCP)practices(nature-positive/agroecological farming;food loss&waste,sustainable di
6、ets)we can:mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis,protect and conserve nature,while providing everyone with nutritious food and decent income.67Future Food Together is a WWF-led multi-country initiative aimed at addressing one of the main drivers of the climate and biodiversity crises:unsustainabl