Harmoniya
Baku Harmoniya Climate Initiative for Farmers
Launched by the COP29 Azerbaijan Presidency in 2024, the Baku Harmoniya Climate Initiative for Farmers is a flagship programme under the FAST Partnership. The Harmoniya flagship programme brings greater coherence and impact to climate action in agrifood systems, while also promoting improved climate finance and a farmer-centric approach, with a particular focus on women and youth.
Launched by the COP29 Azerbaijan Presidency in 2024, the Baku Harmoniya Climate Initiative for Farmers is a flagship programme under the FAST Partnership. The Harmoniya flagship programme brings greater coherence and impact to climate action in agrifood systems, while also promoting improved climate finance and a farmer-centric approach, with a particular focus on women and youth.
Goals
FAST Partnership activities support the delivery of Harmoniya’s three main goals:- Clarifying the landscape of existing initiatives at the intersection of climate, finance and agrifood systems. The FAST Partnership online initiative mapping tool brings clarity to the current landscape by identifying existing efforts, reducing duplication, fostering collaboration, and enabling more targeted and inclusive funding strategies. By systematically identifying and categorizing the multitude of actors and initiatives operating at the intersection of agrifood systems, climate change, and finance, the mapping provides a strategic foundation for Harmoniya’s role as an aggregator. It allows the Initiative to pinpoint existing synergies, avoid duplication, and foster collaboration across networks, coalitions, and institutions.
- Strengthening collaboration between MDBs and AgriPDBs to catalyze investments in agrifood system transformation. Recognizing that scaling up climate finance requires innovative financial mechanisms and stronger institutional partnerships, the FAST Partnership has taken concrete steps to advance Harmoniya in this context. In May 2025, the FAST Partnership convened a workshop bringing together financial institutions, farmers’ organizations, and technical experts. The workshop produced clear mappings of key stakeholders and the conditions needed to enable effective collaboration, helping partners better align roles and coordinate action.
The Adaptation, Biodiversity and Carbon Mapping Tool (ABC-Map), developed by FAO and IFAD with support from the AgriPDB Platform and AFD, helps banks assess climate and environmental impacts, reduce investment risks, and align investments with funder requirements such as those of the GCF and World Bank. Ongoing enhancements to the tool will also enable farmers’ organizations to develop stronger, bankable proposals and improve access to climate finance. - Fostering a farmer-centric approach. The FAST Partnership recognizes farmers and their organizations as equal partners in designing and implementing finance programs that reflect their needs and knowledge and prioritizes meaningful farmer representation within its governance to improve the quality of finance. In 2026 as part of the International Year of the Woman Farmer (IYWF), the FAST Partnership will host a roundtable on climate finance for women and collect stories about Women Farmers across its Members.
