As climate change increasingly threatens agricultural lands, the 2025 World Soil Day serves as a reminder of the crucial role of soils, particularly in peri-urban zones that supply growing cities. To mark World Soil Day 2025, the SAGA 2 project highlights the “Climate Advisory Clubs” approach, wh...

On the front lines of climate change impacts, farmers, Indigenous Peoples, and local communities also are crucial actors in the fight to reduce emissions and achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. However, these actors face challenges in accessing the climate finance necessary for reducing agr...

Sustainable and resilient agrifood systems are essential for achieving the Paris Agreement targets on climate change while ensuring food security and nutrition for present and future generations. This was the overarching message delivered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na...

Land degradation stands as one of the most pressing challenges of our time, undermining food security, accelerating biodiversity loss, and exacerbating climate change, with 1 billion hectares of land degraded worldwide. It also represents an opportunity: restoring degraded farmland, such as cropl...

Forests are at the heart of COP30 discussions in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém. But less is said about how forests provide a vital support system for agriculture. Promoting synergies between the two is therefore essential for sustainable agrifood system transformation in the face of climate ...

Ministers unite at COP30 to launch FIRST (the Farmers’ Initiative for Resilient and Sustainable Transformations), a major South–South effort to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture. Alongside FIRST, Brazil and the United Kingdom launched the Belém Declaration on Fertilisers...

Ten countries have announced their support for an innovative new Brazil-led accelerator that will unite governments and investors behind a shared goal: restoring the world’s farmland to strengthen food security, tackle climate breakdown, and protect biodiversity.

Drawing attention to the underrepresentation of food and agriculture in global climate finance flows, government ministers, experts, financial institutions, and private-sector leaders discuss how to unlock the financial support needed to create cleaner, resilient agrifood systems.

Agrifood systems are central to the global climate agenda; they account for roughly one-third of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and are vital for food security and the livelihoods of over one billion people. 

Building on the legacy of the G20 Bioeconomy Initiative (GIB), the Bioeconomy Challenge defines clear milestones for 2028 — turning the vision of a resilient and inclusive bioeconomy into coordinated action, supported by coherent policy frameworks, measurable outcomes, and innovative financial mechanisms that translate ambition into real-economy results.

As dawn breaks over the Ororubá Mountains in Pernambuco, Brazil, a group of Indigenous youth of the Xukuru do Ororubá people gather at the edge of a nursery. They tend to native plant and tree seedlings: especially species used for medicinal purposes which were once lost but are now being revived.

Bioeconomy holds great promise for transforming how we live, produce, and share resources, with people and the planet at the heart of development; but this potential will not be fulfilled without clear metrics of what counts as sustainable bioeconomy and how it can be monitored and assessed. 

New analysis by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reveals that agrifood systems, critical to addressing climate change, biodiversity loss and global hunger, are receiving a fraction of international climate-related development finance, with much of the funding fail...

The Call to Action on Integrated Fire Management and Wildfire Resilience, now backed by 62 countries, set the tone as speakers highlighted early results from the Global Fire Management Hub and rising cooperation on prevention-centered strategies.

A side event brought IPCC, FAO, and WMO voices together to show how climate science can drive safer agrifood systems, highlighting findings from key reports on heat impacts and emissions data.

Developing countries recognize the urgent need to adapt agrifood systems to climate change, but most National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) are struggling to address key risks or protect vulnerable groups due to severe financing and capacity gaps, according to a landmark report released on Tuesday by t...

Soda Thai holds a photograph in her hand. She has a baby in her arms and is standing together with her husband in worn clothes. It was hard times, she remembers. “I did not have a job, house or land, and I even lacked the resources to start farming,” Soda describes. Eighteen years ago, she got by...

As countries finalize their next national climate commitments – known as nationally determined contributions, or NDCs – at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the world faces a defining test: whether global action can still meet the Paris Agreement’s goals and put agrifood systems at the heart of climate act...

The UK Government today announced long-term funding of GBP 16.9 million for the Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests (AIM4Forests) programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

As COP30 tackles how to measure progress on adaptation, a side event brings together speakers from francophone countries on how they track, learn, and fund climate-resilient agriculture.