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Cross-cutting topics related to food and agriculture
A wide variety of learning materials and studies for technical audiences including concepts, practices and techniques for food security, systems and production in the context of climate change in food and agriculture.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF "Energy-Smart" food for people and climate
- PDF Actions to transform food systems under climate change
- Website Agriculture, food security and climate change: Outlook for knowledge, tools and action
- PDF Assessment of agricultural plastics and their sustainability. A call for action
- PDF Climate change: Unpacking the burden on food safety
- PDF Enhancing knowledge on climate change mitigation and adaptation for food security and nutrition
- PDF Ensuring access to safe and nutritious food for all through transformation of food systems
- PDF Framework for Action on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
- PDF Measuring progress towards sustainable agriculture
- PDF Panorama of food and nutrition security in Latin America and the Caribbean
- PDF Priorities related to food value chains and the agri-food sector in the nationally determined contributions (NDCs)
- PDF The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017: Building Resilience for Peace and Food Security
- PDF The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World – 2018
- PDF The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2016 : Climate change, agriculture and food security
- PDF The State of Food and Agriculture 2016 Info Note 1: Climate change, agriculture and food security climate change: what does it mean for ...
- PDF The future of food and agriculture – Trends and challenges
- PDF Africa: regional overview of food security and nutrition
- PDF Climate change and food security and nutrition Latin America and the Caribbean (policy guidelines)
- PDF Food systems transformation: Developing sustainable, eco-friendly, climate-smart food production along value chains in Africa
- PDF Info Note 2. The State of Food and Agriculture 2016; Climate change, agriculture and food security improved farming practices reduce impacts of ...
- PDF Pulses and climate change. Revised edition
- PDF Report on the high-level regional dialogue on the mainstreaming of biodiversity in the agricultural, forestry and fisheries sectors
- PDF The state of food and agriculture: Adaptation
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Tools for greenhouse gas assessments
A series of tools and databases to support countries in assessing GHG emissions and removals from the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector through useful tools.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Emissions due to agriculture: Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
- Website AFOLU Carbon Calculator
- Website Agriculture and Land Use national Greenhouse Gas Inventory software (ALU)
- Website Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Mitigation Option Tool
- Website Collect Earth
- Website Cool Farm Tool
- Website EPA. 2020. U.S. EPA Toolkit for Building National GHG Inventory Systems
- Website EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT)
- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT) for value chains
- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool for value chains
- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool | EX-ACT
- Website Emissions overview
- PDF Estimating GHG emissions and carbon sequestration in agriculture, forestry and other land use with EX-ACT
- PDF Ex-Ante Carbon balance Tool
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions - Agriculture
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions - Land use
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions intensities
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions shares
- Website GLEAM v 3.0 Dashboard
- Website Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM)
- PDF Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM): Model description. version 3.0
- Website Global database of greenhouse gas emissions related to feed crops
- Website Global database of national greenhouse gas inventory capacity in developing countries
- Website IPCC 2020. IPCC Inventory Software
- Website Quality assurance/Quality control (QA/QC) and verification
- PDF The LoGIc tool for developing land representation for national greenhouse gas inventories
- PDF The LoGIc tool for developing land representation for national greenhouse gas inventories. The file input template
- PDF The LoGIc tool for developing land representation for national greenhouse gas inventories. The tool
- Website Using EX-ACT to estimate the mitigation potential of agricultural interventions
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Food safety and climate change
Various resources that explore the relationship between climate change and food safety.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Climate change: Unpacking the burden on food safety
- Website Food safety – climate change and the role of WHO
- PDF Thinking about the future of food safety
- Website Climate change is making our food less safe
- Video Climate change is threatening the safety of our food
- Website Food safety – climate change and the role of WHO (summary)
- Website Foresight
- Website How Is Climate Change Affecting the Safety of Our Food?
- PDF How a single aspect of climate change can make food less safe
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Resources on climate-smart agriculture
A wide variety of materials on concepts, guidelines, policies, practices and approaches related to climate-smart agriculture.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Climate-smart agriculture: Building resilience to climate change
- Website Climate-smart landscapes: opportunities and challenges for integrating adaptation and mitigation in tropical agriculture
- PDF Collaboration on climate-smart agriculture: Agriculture and climate change challenges and opportunities at the global and local level
- Website Economics and Policy Innovations for Climate-Smart Agriculture (EPIC) working papers
- PDF Law and governance in support of climate-smart agriculture and international climate change goals
- PDF Leveraging COVID-19 recovery strategies to build climate-smart agrifood systems in developing countries
- PDF Managing climate risk using climate-smart agriculture
- PDF Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Call for Action
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture in action: from concepts to investments
- PDF Crops and climate change impact briefs
- Website Economics and policy innovations for Climate-Smart Agriculture programme (EPIC) policy briefs
- PDF Enabling advisory services for climate-smart agriculture (CSA): Key elements to foster farmers' adoption of CSA practices
- Website GACSA portal
- Website Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture
- PDF Improving climate risk transfer and management for climate-smart agriculture: A review of existing examples of successful index-based insurance ...
- Website Introduction to climate-smart agriculture
- Video Scaling up Investments for Climate Smart Agriculture projects in food systems
- Website The North America Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance
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Country experiences addressing agriculture in National Adaptation Plans
A wide variety of learning materials and/or country experiences on climate change National Adaptation Plans in the agriculture sector and ultimately on food security.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Enhancing knowledge on climate change mitigation and adaptation for food security and nutrition
- PDF Public expenditure analysis for climate change adaptation and mitigation in the agriculture sector: a case study of Kenya
- Website Assessing institutional barriers to National Adaptation Plan (NAP) implementation in Kenya’s agricultural sector
- PDF Brazil: National Adaptation Plan to climate change
- PDF Colombia: advancing monitoring and evaluation of adaptation in the agriculture sector
- PDF Conservation agriculture for climate change adaptation in Zambia: A cost-benefit analysis
- Website From the bottom up: Key lessons learned from Senegal’s national adaptation plan
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-AG) programme: Case study – Thailand
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-AG) programme: Case study – Uganda
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) Programme: Case study – The Philippines
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP–Ag) Programme: Case study – Uruguay
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP–Ag) Programme: Case study – Kenya
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans Programme: Highlights report 2015–2018
- PDF Kenya: National Adaptation Plan (2015–2030)
- PDF National Adaptation Plan for climate change impacts in Sri Lanka (2016–2025)
- Website National adaptation planning: Lessons from OECD countries
- PDF Burkina Faso: National climate change adaptation plan
- PDF Plan national d'adaptation du Sénégal - État des lieux du processus
- PDF Plan national d'adaptation du Sénégal pour le secteur de l’agriculture - État des lieux du processus
- PDF National Adaptation Plan: Priorities for Agriculture and Food Security in Tunisia
- PDF Progress in developing a national monitoring and evaluation system for adaptation in the agriculture sector: a multi-country case study
- PDF Saint Lucia’s Sectoral Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan for the Agriculture Sector (Agriculture SASAP) 2018–2028
- PDF État des lieux pour le processus d’élaboration du Plan national d’adaptation pour le secteur de l’agriculture au Sénégal
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Assessing climate resilience of vulnerable communities
Tools, studies and methodologies for assessing climate change vulnerability which can help climate change specialists incorporate adaptation planning into different sectors. They also allow farmers and pastoralists to self-assess and express their climate change-related concerns and interests.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Atlas of agricultural livelihoods and climate risk of the Lao People's Democratic Republic 2019–2020
- Website Compendium on methods and tools to evaluate impacts of and vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
- PDF Migration, agriculture and climate change: Reducing vulnerabilities and enhancing resilience
- PDF The relations between climate change and child labour in agriculture
- PDF The unjust climate
- PDF CLIMAFRICA: Climate change predictions in sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts and adaptations
- PDF Delivery of climate services to last mile users: challenges and opportunities for scaling
- Website Drought portal - Knowledge resources on integrated drought management
- PDF Regional workshop on assessing climate change vulnerability in fisheries and aquaculture
- PDF Report of the vulnerability and capacity assessments in coastal and fishing communities in Saint Kitts and Nevis
- PDF Report of vulnerability and capacity assessments in coastal and fishing communities in Grenada
- PDF Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of Climate Resilience of Farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP)
- Website Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP)
- PDF Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information Systems (SAMIS) to improve adaptation to climate change and food security in the Lao ...
- PDF Toolkit for Increasing Climate Change Resilience
- PDF Vulnerability assessment methodologies: An annotated bibliography for climate change and the fisheries and aquaculture sector
- PDF Vulnerability sourcebook: Risk supplement
- PDF Terminal evaluation of the project "Mainstreaming ecosystem-based approaches to climate-resilient rural livelihoods in vulnerable rural areas ...
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Implementing climate-smart agriculture
These guidelines and methodologies help with the implementation of climate-smart agriculture.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action
- PDF Synergies and trade-offs in climate-smart agriculture: An approach to systematic assessment
- Website Climate-Smart Agriculture Implementation Brief : A Summary of Insights and Upscaling Opportunities through the Africa Climate Business Plan
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals: Mapping interlinkages, synergies and trade-offs and guidelines for integrated ...
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture sourcebook
- PDF How do we actually change the business as usual management of agricultural systems? A methodology for building Climate-Smart Agriculture
- Website Climate-smart agriculture
- Website CSA Programming and Indicator Tool
- Website The climate-smart agriculture implementer
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The impact of investments in the agriculture sector on climate change
These materials examine the impact of agricultural investments on climate changeThe most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Agriculture-related activities in the Green Climate Fund portfolio
- Website Climate-related development finance to agrifood systems
- Website Climate-related development finance to agrifood systems, 2024 update
- PDF Feeding people, protecting the planet
- PDF Accelerating investment towards carbon-neutral agrifood systems
- PDF Adoption of climate technologies in the agrifood system: investment opportunities in Kazakhstan
- PDF Adoption of climate technologies in the agrifood system: investment opportunities in the Kyrgyz Republic
- Website Co-designing the assessment of climate change costs (COACCH)
- Website Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
- PDF How to invest in farmers?
- PDF Incorporating climate change considerations into agricultural investment programmes. A guidance document.
- PDF Investing in agricultural water management
- Website Making climate finance work for agrifood systems in Asia and the Pacific
- PDF Manual for climate investments of the private sector
- PDF Private sector mapping, outreach, and engagement in climate-responsive agrifood systems
- Website Promoting inclusive green finance in agriculture
- PDF The shortest path. Accelerating investment towards carbon-neutral agrifood systems
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Sustainable livestock to tackle climate change
A wide variety of useful resources to accelerate the sustainable development of livestock supply chains and to support coherent climate actions.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Climate change and the global dairy cattle sector
- PDF Pathways towards lower emissions
- PDF Livestock solutions for climate change
- PDF Tackling climate change through livestock
- PDF Understanding the role of ruminant systems on greenhouse gas emissions and soil health in selected Central Asian countries
- PDF Cameroon moves towards low-carbon livestock systems
- PDF Climate smart livestock production in Ecuador
- Website Estimating methane emissions from enteric fermentation using Tier 2 method
- PDF Five practical actions towards low-carbon livestock
- Website GLEAM v 3.0 Dashboard
- Website Global agenda for sustainable livestock
- PDF Improving efficiency of small ruminants productions for reduction of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity
- Video Introducing the Global Agenda of Action in support of sustainable livestock sector development
- PDF Livestock and climate change
- Website Livestock environmental assessment and performance partnership (LEAP)
- Website Low carbon livestock development in Kyrgyzstan
- PDF Piloting the Climate-Smart Approach in the Livestock Production Systems
- PDF Prioritizing the reduction of methane in livestock climate actions in East Africa
- Website The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases: Livestock research group
- PDF The role of animal health in national climate commitments
- PDF Understanding the role of ruminant systems on greenhouse gas emissions and soil health in selected Central Asian countries
- Website Webinars on livestock
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The role of soils in climate change mitigation
A series of learning materials related to soil carbon and soil management in the context of climate change mitigation.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Carbone des sols en Afrique. Impacts des usages des sols et des pratiques agricoles
- PDF Global Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration Potential Map – GSOCseq v.1.1
- PDF Global assessment of soil carbon in grasslands
- PDF Global assessment of soil pollution: Report
- PDF Understanding countries’ status and challenges for the estimation of carbon stock changes from mineral soils in national greenhouse gas ...
- PDF Soil organic carbon – the hidden potential
- PDF Soils help to combat and adapt to climate change by playing a key role in the carbon cycle
- PDF Soils help to combat and adapt to climate change
- PDF Soils' potential to contribute to offset international aviation emissions
- PDF Soils: key to unlocking the potential of mitigating and adapting to climate change