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Agriculture and food systems transformation to meet climate and biodiversity goals

Food Forward NDCs & NBSAPs helps decisionmakers advance climate and biodiversity goals and targets by guiding action for agriculture and food system transformation.

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A narrow wooden boat with two people navigating through a waterway filled with green lily pads, surrounded by lush green rice fields. One person stands at the back using a long pole to propel the boat, while the other sits at the front wearing a conical hat and appears to be handling something in the water. Trees dot the horizon under a partly cloudy sky. Man wearing a cap, light blue shirt, gray pants, and white boots crouching and tending to green plants in a garden or nursery with dense trees and a small building with a red-tiled roof in the background. A large center pivot irrigation system watering a field with young green plants. The irrigation equipment extends across the field, spraying water and creating mist. The sky above is partly cloudy with patches of blue. The soil appears moist and reddish-brown. A person wearing a green hat and blue denim jacket is reaching towards a large pile of pineapples loaded on a truck bed, with a cloudy sky and trees in the background. Hands holding a cluster of unripe green tomatoes still attached to the vine, with visible dirt on the hands and a blurred natural background. Seven large metal grain silos with conical roofs are arranged in a row on a dirt lot. The silos are connected by overhead conveyor systems and pipes. Adjacent to the silos is a large industrial building with a metal roof. The surrounding area is dry, open farmland with some trees in the distance. The silos have the name "Kepler Weber" printed on them. Hands holding fresh green lettuce over a large black plastic container, with two people partially visible in casual clothing in a bright indoor setting.

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  • Alliance Bioversity & CIAT logo featuring a stylized human figure with leaves and a globe with a leaf above it, accompanied by a colorful arc above the text. Next to it is the CGIAR logo, showing a green stylized plant with the text "CGIAR" below.

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Food Forward NDCs & NBSAPs is a consolidated collection of 37 policy options in specific areas of agriculture and food systems transformation, organized across five priority areas. The content can be used to identify relevant policy options, implementation measures, their climate and sustainable development benefits, potential trade-offs and examples of their implementation in practice.

Hand holding a bunch of fresh Swiss chard with green leaves and colorful stems in shades of red, yellow, and white.

Explore the five priority intervention areas and identify relevant policy options, implementation measures, their climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development benefits, potential trade-offs, and examples of their implementation in practice.

A person wearing shorts and socks is pouring grain feed from a black bucket into a metal feeder on green grass, surrounded by several brown and one white chicken eating the feed.

Food Environment

Interventions that enable a physical, economic, political or socio-cultural change in how stakeholders engage with sustainable food systems.

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A cleared area of red soil in the middle of dense green forest with a yellow bulldozer parked near the edge. There are some blue barrels and a pile of long wooden planks on the ground, along with a small makeshift structure. Tire tracks are visible in the soil.

Food Governance

Interventions that facilitate equitable, coherent, coordinated and transparent design, implementation and monitoring of food system measures.

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Aerial view of a green field with a circular dirt track surrounding a small pond and some vegetation in the center. To the right of the field is a dense forest with various shades of green trees.

Food Production

Interventions for climate change mitigation and adaptation that help to maintain and restore ecosystems, improve soil and water quality, and that increase availability of healthy food for all.

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A dusty dirt road cutting through a rural landscape with dense green trees on the left and dry grass with wooden fence posts on the right. Several trucks are driving along the road, kicking up a large cloud of dust behind them. The sky is partly cloudy with patches of blue.

Food Supply Chains

Interventions to reduce food loss and waste and to decarbonize supply chain activities in transport, processing and distribution.

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A colorful market display featuring a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables arranged in wooden crates. Visible produce includes green beans, lettuce, green bell peppers, striped melons, oranges, apples in different shades, grapes, plums, bananas, and yellow plums. Bright red price tags are placed among the produce.

Food Consumption

Interventions to enable preparation and consumption of sustainable, nutritious, and healthy diets.

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What are NDCs?

A Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) is a document that outlines a country’s commitments on climate action, as required by Parties to the Paris Agreement.

NDCs

What are NBSAPs?

National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans are strategies for implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity, focusing on conservation, sustainable use, and equitable sharing of biodiversity benefits.

NBSAPs

Explore the connections

Discover how policy options connect to global climate, biodiversity, and sustainable goals and targets.

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