ECI Leads: Professor Jim Hall, Alison Smith
Food, agriculture, biodiversity, land-use and energy pathways consortium (FABLE) is a collaborative initiative, operating as part of the Food and Land Use Coalition, to understand how countries can transition towards sustainable land use and food systems.
The project is coordinated by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), and involves modelling teams from leading institutions in 18 countries.
Our work
The main aim is to develop and test ambitious integrated strategies that can tackle the synergies and trade-offs between agriculture, water, biodiversity, healthy diets and greenhouse gas emissions. Each FABLE country team is responsible for its own analysis, and all coordinate to share lessons, ensure consistent trade flows, and align the sum of national pathways with the SDGs and the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
The UK country team is steered by the University of Oxford & the Centre of Ecology & Hydrology.
- More information on the FABLE Consortium website
Outputs
2020 FABLE report and country chapters
The second global report presents pathways towards sustainable land-use and food systems for 20 countries. The pathways present at least one Current Trends Pathway and one Sustainable Pathway to assess how far and how quickly improved policies can make land-use and food systems sustainable. The report’s findings suggest that integrated strategies across food production, biodiversity, climate, and diets can meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but will require deep transformations in all countries.
- Pathways to sustainable land-us and food systems summary, pdf (14 pages, 3 MB)
- Pathways to sustainable land-us and food systems full report, pdf (715 pages, 76.2 MB)
Pathways for food and land use systems to contribute to global biodiversity targets
This analysis models two future scenarios and shows how much progress can be made toward global biodiversity targets if urgent action is taken to make food and land use systems more sustainable.