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

The content provides the basis to inform a holistic policymaking and implementation approach by considering the interaction between different policy objectives within the food system and a series of co-benefits and trade-offs of each policy option.

Food Forward NDCs & NBSAPs is a collaborative effort led by WWF and Climate Focus with technical collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Environment Programme, NDC Partnership, FAIRR Initiative, CIAT Bioversity, CGIAR, Global Alliance for the Future of Food, Biovision Foundation, the Agroecology Coalition, and the Coalition of Action on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems for Children and All (HDSFS Coalition), and others, supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

How can Food Forward NDCs & NBSAPs help?

The content in the FOOD FORWARD NDCs & NBSAPs establishes a basis for holistic policy development and implementation. It takes into account the interaction between different policy objectives in agriculture and food systems, as well as the associated co-benefits and trade-offs of each policy option. Beyond concrete policy measures, the guidance also provides users with relevant supplementary information, up-to-date literature, and links to helpful external resources and tools.

The tool does not intend to prescribe solutions, but instead present a menu of policy options as a starting point for decision makers to further develop and implement on-the ground measures for food systems transformation based on national and local contexts. The material ultimately aims to align countries’ NDCs & NBSAPs with a food systems approach by serving a dual purpose in both:

• Supporting NDC & NBSAP implementation by identifying and presenting concrete practices and measures that enable systemic shifts in agriculture and food systems to meet NDC & NBSAP targets, and
• Supporting NDC & NBSAP enhancement by providing accessible guidance to help countries ramp-up their ambition on food systems in forthcoming NDC & NBSAP updates.