Building climate-resilient nutrition: What the 2026 Global Nutrition Report reveals about food systems synergies and trade-offs for healthy diets under climate change
Food systems are increasingly at the centre of efforts to tackle both climate and nutrition challenges. Many of the leading food systems strategies are presented as win-wins, but the choices that improve resilience and support healthy diets can involve difficult trade-offs. Maximising the mutual benefits will depend on intentional changes across food systems and managing the trade-offs from the start.
This brief examines climate-smart agriculture, sustainable healthy diets and food loss and waste reduction, highlighting opportunities, trade-offs and policy considerations for achieving better nutrition and climate outcomes.