This video shows how men and women farmers and other decision makers have applied the climate-smart agriculture approach in practice. UNFAO shares project results from Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Nicaragua and Vietnam.

Kenyan smallholder farmers have addressed climate change through integrated livestock systems and improved their incomes. The ecosystem approach has reduced environmental degradation of mangroves and reduced the climate vulnerability of Nicaraguan communities. FAO’s work with partner countries in Asia and Africa has generated solutions helping decision makers to overcome barriers in the sustainable adoption of climate-smart agriculture.

Looking to the future, it won’t be easy to feed the world in a changing climate, and farmers will not be able to do it alone. Making food production climate-smart requires: investments in agriculture, knowledge of locally suitable practices and harmonized policies.

Some 40,000 delegates from 195 countries, including heads of state and prominent figures in the fight against climate change, will gather in Paris 30 November – 11 December for the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention Climate Change (COP21).

The Paris climate conference aims to produce a legally binding agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. Climate change threatens to derail efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, with the heaviest effects being felt by the poor -- including millions of small-scale farmers -- who have contributed least to the problem.

Agriculture, forestry and fisheries hold great potential to be a transformational force in the global response to climate change, provided that the international community initiates a shift towards food systems that are more resilient, more productive, and more sustainable.

In this edition of Hungry Planet, at EXPO 2015 in Milan the Austria "pavilion" is actually a forest– cool, calm and refreshing; in São Tomé, consumer demand for organic chocolate is helping save one of the world's most threatened environments; and in Nepal, aid workers struggle to reach the most isolated and worst hit communities.

The first regional REDD+ Academy for Latin America and the Caribbean was held in Argentina from October 5-10, 2015. Over 45 representatives from government, civil society and indigenous peoples from 12 UN-REDD partner countries from the region participated in the Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop, which aimed to provide participants with knowledge and training methodologies to be used for REDD+ capacity building processes in their countries.

The video briefly traverses the background to the Global Agenda of Action; outlines its objectives and the three initial Agenda focus areas, providing some examples of their activities; and explains the Multi-stakeholder Partnership.