The Apulia Food Systems Initiative’s joined-up approach to food and climate. The Italian G7 Presidency’s focus on food and climate is urgently needed. Across our
continent, torrential rain and floods have destroyed thousands of acres of farmland in East Africa, extreme drought has pushed millions of people into hunger and malnutrition across Southern Africa and the Horn, and a deadly heatwave has damaged crops in West Africa leading to a surge in the price of cocoa on international markets.