Expert Meeting on Agriculture and Food
The Expert Meeting on Agriculture and Food will support the IPCC's Seventh Assessment Report process by synthesizing the latest science on agriculture and food systems under climate change.
Agriculture & Food Security
As the world population grows, it is essential to increase sustainable agricultural production, improve the global food supply chain, decrease food loss and waste, and ensure everyone—especially those suffering from poverty, hunger and malnutrition—has access to food. Improving yields on agricultural lands and restoration of degraded lands through sustainable agriculture techniques can also relieve pressure to clear forests for agriculture. Better management of water through improved irrigation and storage technologies, combined with development of new drought-resistant crop varieties, can contribute to sustaining drylands productivity.
Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture,” recognizes the importance of supporting sustainable agriculture, empowering small farmers, promoting gender equality, ending rural poverty, ensuring healthy lifestyles, tackling climate change, and other issues addressed by the 17 SDGs in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) takes the lead on agriculture and food security in the UN system, working in cooperation with other international and regional organizations and national governments.
Events and Articles
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11th Session of the ITPGRFA Governing Body
After 12 years of negotiations, delegates could not agree on measures to enhance the Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing. Decisions on farmers’ rights and conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture set the path for intersessional work.
Global Crop Diversity Day 2025
Global Crop Diversity Day 2025 will explore innovative solutions to future-proof the global genebank system, including cryopreservation and the promotion of opportunity crops.
Ministerial FAST+CCAC - Scaling Up Practical Solutions for Resilient Agri-Food Systems
On Food and Agriculture Day, key stakeholders in action to transform agrifood systems and mitigate super-pollutants combined forces to discuss ways to unlock the finance needed to deliver results for the climate.
Unlocking Climate Finance for Agrifood Transformation and Climate Action
Drawing attention to the underrepresentation of food and agriculture in global climate finance flows, government ministers, experts, financial institutions, and private-sector leaders discuss how to unlock the financial support needed to create cleaner, resilient agrifood systems.
From Farm and Food to Future: Driving Climate Action through NDC 3.0
A side event showed how robust food and agriculture plans can lift climate ambition, with countries sharing third round NDC insights and reviewing tools that can support them, including FAO’s Agrifood Systems Help Desk.
6th Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific
Delegates from Asia Pacific showed “strong convergence” across some key environmental issues they intend to raise in December at the seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly—the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment.
20th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN-20)
Africa’s foremost ministerial-level body on environmental governance adopted decisions on Ocean governance in Africa, strengthening chemicals and waste governance, climate change, biodiversity, and a draft drought protocol.
14th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the ITPGRFA Multilateral System
Although principled differences remain on most major issues, delegates saw progress on technical matters and engaged with ideas that can enable consensus on enhancing the Treaty’s Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing, and addressing user-based payments to the its Benefit-sharing Fund.
13th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the ITPGRFA Multilateral System
Aiming to enhance the functioning of the Treaty’s Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing, deliberations focused on: the payment structure and rates under the draft revised Standard Material Transfer Agreement; benefit-sharing from digital sequence information/genetic sequence data; and the expansion of the list of crops.