Climate change has severe negative impacts on livelihoods and food systems worldwide. Our future climate according to the latest scenarios seriously undermines current efforts to improve the state of food security and nutrition, especially in sub-Sahara Africa.

To address this to its full extent, there is an urgent need for transformational change of our food systems towards more sustainability and resilience. Agroecology could play a vital role here. As a response to FAO’s Governing Bodies’ call for increased evidence-based work on agroecology, a recent study aims to elaborate on existing links between agroecology and climate change.

The webinar provides evidence on the technical and policy potential of agroecology to build resilient food systems. Inspired by the idea that transformation will only happen through a coordinated approach among all levels, this study was jointly developed by a broad set of actors from UN agencies (FAO), research institutes (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FIBL), Bioversity, Senegalese Institute of Agricultural Research (ISRA)) and Civil Society Organization (Biovision, Enda Pronat, Institute for Culture and Ecology (ICE)) and thus combines evidence from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives.

The webinar includes presentations by:

• Fabio Leippert, Policy and Advocacy Manager (Biovision)
• Matthias Geck, Program Manager (Biovision)
• Adrian Muller, Senior Researcher (FiBL)
• Molefi Mpheshea, Natural Resource Officer (FAO).