Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation (FAST) Partnership Ministerial Meeting

Baku (Azerbaijan), Baku (Azerbaijan), 19/11/2024

FAST Members and stakeholders share their experiences and lessons learned on the importance of strengthening collaboration to accelerate climate finance for agrifood systems transformation with a special focus on vulnerable groups.

Unlocking Climate Finance for a Resilient Agrifood Future: how can we bridge the $500 billion gap?

Baku (Azerbaijan), 13/11/2024

This fireside chat explores the challenges and opportunities associated with climate finance in the agrifood sector. These include strategies for enhancing the accessibility, predictability, and effectiveness of climate finance dedicated to agrifood systems and the relevance of the ongoing negotiations of the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) for climate finance.

FAST Partnership Board meeting - B.D. 4/2024

Virtual Event, 08/11/2024

Fourth meeting of the FAST Partnership Board

CFS side event: Harnessing climate finance and social protection for inclusive agrifood system transformation

(Italy), Hybrid Event, 25/10/2024

This session presents findings from a recent review of social protection for rural populations within the existing portfolio of the UNFCCC climate funds that explored how to scale-up and strengthen the role of social protection in inclusive climate action for rural and agrifood system dependent populations.

WFF Side event: Road to COP29 - Building Capacity from SBs and beyond (Event code:YP15)

Virtual Event, 15/10/2024

This event is the first of two events that seek to build the capacity and knowledge of young people to engage in the UNFCCC food and agriculture negotiations. 

This session provides an overview of the climate and agriculture negotiations under the UNFCCC and beyond with the aim to provide youth in at...

Climate finance for resilient agrifood systems: navigating through the FAO-GCF partnership

Virtual Event, 10/10/2024

This webinar will explore how the FAO-GCF partnership is helping countries mobilize climate finance to build more resilient agrifood systems.

Climate finance mechanisms for family farmers' organizations

Virtual Event, 30/07/2024

The World Rural Forum (WRF) is organizing the first of a series of global webinars on July 30th in preparation for COP29. The first webinar in this series will cover the available climate finance mechanisms and how family farmers’ organizations can access them.

GEF9 Replenishment - key insights and opportunities

Virtual Event, 25/07/2024

This webinar focuses on the upcoming GEF9 Replenishment and explores how to advocate for improved representation of agrifood systems in the upcoming cycle.

Attributing extreme weather events and agricultural losses and damages to climate change

Virtual Event, 10/06/2024

In this climate change study circle session, Dr Yukiko Imada (University of Tokyo), together with Dr Sabine Undorf and Dr Christoph Gornott (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), will discuss the role of climate attribution science in assessing agricultural losses and damages, after a brief introduction by Dr Hideki Kanamaru (Natural Resources Officer, OCB).

Presentation of the COP29 Presidency priorities and the Harmoniya Initiative at SB60

Bonn (Germany), Hybrid Event, 04/06/2024

FAO and the COP29 Presidency are collaborating on a dedicated initiative for agriculture. The "Harmoniya 4 climate resilience: empowering farmers, villages and rural communities", aims to bring more coherence, alignment, and experience-sharing among existing coalitions for greater impact in the transformation of the food and agriculture. The Initiative will be closely linked to the FAST Partner...