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Climate Technologies

Climate technologies  and their effective application are essential in tackling the climate crisis. They include equipment, practices, skills and institutional capacity and can be found at any stage of the agrifood system, from production to processing, storage to distribution.

Climate technologies enhance adaptation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon storage, improving food security and transforming rural livelihoods.  

Lack of investment, know-how and enabling policies often block technology adoption. Tailored finance is essential, creating favourable conditions for borrowers and financial institutions to invest in climate technologies. 

Accurate assessments are fundamental, ensuring the best technology for a particular location. Building skills, especially among smallholders, rural women and vulnerable groups, improves outcomes. FAO is working closely with countries to identify the most suitable climate technologies, to build capacity and boost investment. Ensuring there are relevant national policies and systems in place to implement and monitor these climate technologies is essential. 

 
Useful resources
Climate technologies for agrifood value chains
01/11/2025

Technologies, and more specifically climate technologies, have consistently been recognized as a key driver of agrifood systems transformation, supporting agricultural development, povertyreduction and economic growth, while enabling transitions to more sustainable pathways. In this context, the nature, type and set-up of each technology play a key role in ensuring that settargets can be achieved. The need for sustainable technologies has been further reinforced by climate change and extreme weather events.

Climate technologies for agrifood systems transformation
01/10/2024

The global community has committed to responding to climate change while ensuring decent livelihoods and healthy food for everyone, keeping within planetary boundaries. Transforming agrifood systems is essential to meeting these challenges, with climate response being an intrinsic element.

Climate Technologies in agrifood systems can help us address the climate crisis
02/12/2024

With 3.3 billion people living in countries that are highly vulnerable to climate change, urgent action is needed to address the climate crisis. Using climate technologies, that help adapt our agrifood systems to climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon storage, is essential. They can make every stage of agrifood systems more sustainable, inclusive and resilient. They can also improve food security and transform livelihoods.