The Agriculture Innovation Mechanism for Scale (AIM for Scale) was announced at COP28 by the United Arab Emirates and the Gates Foundation, with a mission to accelerate the adoption of rigorously tested solutions that improve farmer livelihoods and strengthen food systems. The initiative builds on years of UAE leadership in food systems innovation through the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate)—a joint effort with the United States. AIM for Scale draws on lessons from both AIM for Climate and the Innovation Commission for Climate Change, Food Security, and Agriculture, a global commission backed by the Gates Foundation and chaired by Nobel Laureate in Economics and Chair of our Advisory Panel, Michael Kremer.
AIM for Scale develops tailored packages and mobilizes investments to bring cost-effective, scalable innovations to hundreds of millions of farmers.
Raising global ambition and driving rapid and transformative climate action worldwide – including by enabling science-based and data-driven decision and policy-making – will be key. In this way, AIM for Climate partners are creating a surge of solutions, enabling a quantum leap in climate-smart agriculture and food systems innovation. Together, the initiative is empowering agriculture and food systems to be part of the solution to address the climate crisis, delivering climate action and co-benefits for a sustainable future.
