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  • Publication | 2024

Biodiversity and Climate Action in Agriculture and Food Systems: Opportunities for Building Synergies

Global Food and Nutrition Security Bioeconomy

This article highlights the urgent need for national and international policy regimes to align with scientific findings on the links between biodiversity, climate change, agriculture, and food systems. While the connections are well-documented, concrete policy actions are still lacking.

The article stresses the importance of holistic policymaking and financing, advocating for coordination between environmental, food, and development planning processes at the national level. It calls for integrating traditional and local knowledge, supporting bottom-up initiatives like agroecology, and scaling up innovative approaches to enhance food security, resilience, and nature's role in addressing climate and biodiversity crises. Additionally, it urges donor countries to increase climate finance in a coherent manner and calls for countries to avoid harmful food system subsidies.

The article concludes by noting the growing efforts of research and civil society organizations to provide tools for policymakers, aimed at supporting a just transition to nature-positive agriculture and achieving global biodiversity and climate goals through integrated, bottom-up approaches.