“We need to completely transform our food systems to reduce their impacts on climate and

nature while making them more resilient and adaptive to a changing climate. For this, we

must change our agricultural practices, stop wasting food, and eat healthier and more

diverse diets.”

Interview with Haseeb Bakhtary, Senior Consultant at Climate Focus

“The connections between the food system and our changing climate are multi-layered.  The way that we produce food has a direct impact on greenhouse gas emissions, which in turn drives the changes to climate patterns.”

Interview with Head of Climate and Food Security at WWF-Australia, Krista Singleton-Cambage 

“Various insights from behaviour science have shown that gradual, incremental change to achieve goals work. It is said that individuals make 35.000 decisions a day, with 226 of them about food alone. With this in mind, being able to consciously make small changes in decisions every day - even if starting with only one out of the 226 - is already a good enough start to change food habits and hopefully make it feel rewarding in the long run.”

Interview with Cinta Azwiendasari, an expert in behaviour change. 

“I often get asked “I am just one person, what can I do? 
To which I reply – you can do so much.  Individual action leads to collective and global impact, that leads to change.  Achieving conservation goals doesn’t happen overnight, and it is our job to continue to inspire and motivate people to be the best they can be through awareness, engagement, and outreach so they feel empowered to make changes and take action in their daily lives, for the greater good.”

Interview with Jennifer Croes, Conservation Scientist and Associate Director at Emirates Nature-WWF.

“We are on a mission to bust the myth of the hero innovator or the myth of innovation mainly stemming from technological or commercial endeavours. We strongly believe in the ability of everyone to be innovative, just by the simple imaginative capacity we all possess!”

Interview with Gabriela Gandel, Executive Director at Impact Hub

“[Innovation is] all about gaining an empathic understanding of the problem and stakeholders needs as a first step. Then be challenged to think critically and out-of-the box to conceive exciting and effective solutions that give value to the problems we would like to solve.”

Interview with Monique Mahusay, SoilMate Project Coordinator at WWF-Philippines

“Advancing equitable livelihoods requires building agency of those people in diverse food systems that lack the space or the enabling environment in which to exercise their power and rights. It implies protecting and strengthening the capacities and the knowledge, resilience and innovation that they possess.”

Interview with Christine Campeau, Senior Advisor - Food Systems at CARE

“In inclusive food systems, it is important to recognize, protect and support other food systems and the practices of farmers, fishers, etc that have proven or are proving economically, environmentally and culturally resilient and sustainable.”

Interview with Cristina Eghenter, Global Governance Policy Coordinator (Voices for Diversity Programme), WWF-International

“If you care about farmers and the sweat equity they put into producing good food; if you care about biodiversity, and like me you want to make sure that we can keep at least half of the planet intact; if you are worried about climate change; then you need to become more aware of food waste and loss.”

Interview with Dr Fabrice DeClerck, EAT Science Director, on food loss and waste

"Representing a large waste of water, land and energy, as well as contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, food loss and waste is a major threat to biodiversity conservation in the KAZA region. We therefore strongly believe that reducing food loss and waste is essential in sustainably achieving food availability and accessibility, and conserving this fragile ecosystem."

Interview with Lynette Tshabangu, WWF-Zimbabwe, on food loss and waste in the KAZA region

"If we get diets right, we will have solved many of
the problems concerning our planetary boundaries. What ends up on our plates or in our shopping baskets in the supermarket will determine how production systems are shaped and therefore, we need to shine the spotlight on people’s diets."

Interview with Anna Richert, WWF-Sweden, on sustainable diets