Minimizing the footprint of our food by reducing emissions from all land uses

Twenty-four years after the formulation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Paris Agreement will come into force by November 2016 and finally provide an umbrella for addressing fossil fuel as well as land-use aspects of the human impacton the global climate. Its preamble (as well as article 2) emphasizes the primary concern over continued food production. The Policy Brief addresses whether or not accounting systems and accountability further shift towards "footprints" per unit product, aligned with emission accounting from all land uses, not "just" forests. Nationally Determined Contributions emphasize he supply side of accounting (land use, fossil energy use). The "drivers" are the demand-side relations with human wellbeing and Individually Determined Contributions, to which the private sector responds with various claims on deforestation-free or carbon-neutral value chains.