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COP to COP Agrifood Legacies with Kaveh Zahedi
COP to COP Agrifood Legacies: A Key to Achieving Global Climate Goals
19/11/2024

Transformations in agrifood systems are essential for addressing climate challenges, as they build climate resilience and enhance food security. This...

Making Climate Finance Work for Farmers: On-farm Experiences and Concrete Solutions
19/11/2024

Family farmers produce over 80% of the world’s food based on value, face disproportionate climate risks, and receive only 0.3% of the world’s public...

Together for farmers: FAO and COP29 Presidency launch the ‘Baku Harmoniya Climate Initiative for Farmers’
19/11/2024

To help farmers navigate their way through dozens of initiatives and programs working to support climate-resilient agrifood systems transformation,...

Good news for climate finance to agrifood systems but not good enough
19/11/2024

Newly released data for 2022 shows an increase in climate-related development finance allocated to agrifood systems New FAO analysis shows that in 2022,...

High-Level Dialogue - Moving Forward with NDC Acceleration in Agrifood Systems: Climate Technology Uptake
19/11/2024

Climate technologies are critical to accelerating climate action and the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems. The challenge, however, is...

Launch of Baku Harmoniya Climate Initiative for Farmers with Kaveh Zahedi
Launch of Baku Harmoniya Climate Initiative for Farmers
19/11/2024

Opening Food, Agriculture and Water Day at COP 29, this event served as the launch of the COP 29 Presidency’s Baku Harmoniya Climate Initiative...

New report reveals USD 1 trillion gap in annual finance for agrifood systems
19/11/2024

A report released at COP29 today finds that global agrifood systems are massively underfunded and require USD 1.1 trillion annually to align with a...

Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation (FAST) Partnership Ministerial Meeting
19/11/2024

The Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation (FAST) Partnership, launched at COP 27, is a multi-stakeholder partnership that aims to accelerate...

Climate change negatively impacts crop yields and food security by increasing the frequency of extreme weather events that damage crops and shifting climate patterns that affect growing seasons and water availability
COP29: New FAO analysis maps Nationally Determined Contributions, identifies opportunities, gaps and risks related to agrifood climate solutions
18/11/2024

A new analysis from FAO finds that almost all countries identify agrifood systems as a priority for climate change adaptation (94 percent) and mitigation...