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Abandonment of farmland

28/10/2024 Go to Evidence

62.7% of bird species and 77.7% of mammals gain habitat from the abandonment of cropland, but 74.2% and 86.3% would have benefited even more in the absence of recultivation.

Consecuencias del abandono de las tierras de cultivo para la biodiversidad

https://tabledebates.org/research-library/biodiversity-consequences-cropland-abandonment?utm_source=Fodder+mailing+list&utm_campaign=3596ed32c1-FODDER+31%2F10%2F2024_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a4426c720f-a80dd350dd-330103260

Global climate finance

23/10/2024 Go to Evidence

4% of global climate finance goes to agriculture, despite its vulnerability and contribution to emissions (World Bank, 2024).

Banco Mundial (23 de octubre de 2024). El sector alimentario como motor de crecimiento y empleo. Reuniones Anuales de 2024.

Ultraprocessed foods

15/10/2024 Go to Evidence

Between 15 % and 58 % of the daily energy in national diets comes from UPF, according to a recent review (Martini et al., 2021).

Los UPF hacen una contribución considerable a las dietas nacionales, oscilando entre el 15% y el 58% como proporción de la energía diaria en todos los países en una revisión reciente.

Robinson E, Johnstone AM (2024) Ultraprocessed food (UPF), health, and mechanistic uncertainty: What should we be advising the public to do about UPFs? PLoS Med 21(10): e1004439. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004439

Education in climate finance

15/10/2024 Go to Evidence

Only 1.5% of global climate finance went to the education sector in 2021, highlighting the need to increase financial support for education to drive climate action (World Bank, 2024).

Banco Mundial, 2024

Banco Mundial.2024.Elegir nuestro futuro:Educación para la acción climática. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1796-elegir-nuestro-futuro:-educacion-para-la-accion-climatica