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.

When climate finance meets social protection, communities and forests thrive. This story explores how rural and Indigenous communities in Paraguay are benefiting from the financial incentives and technical assistance they receive through the PROEZA project to promote sustainable agroforestry practices.

A new White Paper released Monday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aims to bring together, in one place, a host of recent research findings and offers a synthesis ...

How can we transform our agrifood systems to both withstand climate shocks and help tackle the climate crisis?

Transforming global agrifood systems to be more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable is critical to meeting the Paris Agreement targets on climate change. Yet, the persistent shortfall in climate finance represents “a lost opportunity” for a sector that could cut global emissions by u...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the launch of the Call to Action on Integrated Fire Management and Wildfire Resilience today at the Belém ClimateSummit ahead of the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil.

omething delicious is happening in Brazil’s Bahia region. Here, where forests were once razed to make room for full-sun cocoa plantations, this corner of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest—one of the planet’s richest yet most threatened ecosystems—is now the site of a quiet agricultural revolution.

As the world faces the twin crises of climate change and global health threats, the importance of the One Health approach has never been clearer. This integrated framework – linking the health of humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems – offers a transformative path to address the cascading risks...