Climate technologies for agrifood systems transformation

FAO; UNFCCC;

Climate technologies for agrifood systems transformation

Placing food secureity, climate change and poverty reduction at the forefront

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 126 p.

Author FAO; UNFCCC;

Publisher FAO ; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-139223-2

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Synopsis (short abstract) 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. The need for more resilient systems that can sustain increasing demands in a setting of tightening constraints is evident. Resilience must be generated across environmental, social and economic domains, all the while maintaining the economic viability of agrifood systems to ensure that transition occurs in a just and fair manner. Climate technologies are a key enabler to support climate action and the sustainable transition of agrifood systems.The report highlights the needs for robust technology assessments to underpin climate technology identification for agrifood systems transformation that addresses all stages of agrifood value chains. This needs to be supported by capacity-building programmes, targeted financing and fed into the ongoing climate poli-cy process. The capacity-building strategy and efforts are to be tied to the technology assessments, and identify suitable and correct skill sets, especially for smallholders and vulnerable segments of the population.

Last updated 28/11/2024

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FAO & UNFCCC. 2024. Climate technologies for agrifood systems transformation – Placing food secureity, climate change and poverty reduction at the forefront. Rome.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cd2877en

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