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Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation (FAST)

Sustainable agricultural systems offer many opportunities to reduce greenhouse gases emissions. Implementation of climate resilient agrifood systems requires political will, international cooperation, generation and exchange of knowledge and best practices, as well as financial resources to support producers and value chain actors across the world to operate the necessary transformations. Recent assessments show that availability and access to climate finance at both farm and country levels remains largely insufficient. Addressing this need, the aspirational goal of FAST is to implement concrete actions that would result in improving the quantity and quality of climate finance contributions to transform agriculture and food systems by 2030, to support adaptation and maintain a 1.5-degree pathway whilst supporting food and economic security. The FAST initiative will be a multi-stakeholder partnership acting as an accelerator to transform agrifood systems to deliver triple wins: for people, for climate and for nature. FAST is designed as a catalyst, building on ongoing global and regional initiatives and coalitions to drive effective actions, and avoiding duplication.

Summit/ Mobilization process: UNFCCC COP27, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (2022).