Thursday, November 14 Finance Day
11:30 - 12:30
Catalyzing Smallholder Farmer Adaptation through Improved Climate Finance: Closing the Quantity and Quality Gaps
Increasing access and availability of climate finance for 500 million smallholder farmers, with a further 2 billion people relying on them for food and income, is essential for fostering resilience, food security, and sustainable agriculture globally in the face of climate change. Yet only 0.3% of climate finance today reaches smallholder farmers (CPI).
This session aims to highlight the finance gap for a more climate resilient food system and advocate for a transformative approach to climate finance for smallholder farmers as the cornerstone of this transition.
Co-organised by One Acre Fund, Environmental Defense Fund, SDG2 Advocacy Hub
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13:00 - 14:00
Unlocking the Hidden Middle: Harnessing climate finance to accelerate food systems transformation
Global food systems are at a critical juncture. With the world facing the dual challenges of ensuring food security and meeting climate commitments, there is an urgent need for governments to take decisive action.
This panel discussion will explore the mismatch between the significant greenhouse gas emissions from food systems and the minimal climate finance allocated to this sector.
Today, food systems overall only account for 4% of climate finance, whereas the sector accounts for more than 30% of GHG emissions yearly, with food loss and waste accounting for a third of this - or 10% of GHG emissions globally.
Experts will discuss the urgent need to bridge the financing gap faced by food manufacturers, and along the Hidden Middle of the value chain, highlighting the importance of targeted investments that deliver environmental benefits, strengthen food security, and support a just transition.
Organised by Tetra Pak
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16:00 - 17:00
Financing Resilient Futures for Smallholder Farmers
The global food system is responsible for a third of greenhouse gas emissions, and it is impacted heavily by climate change. A rapid transition to a resilient and low-emission food system is essential for feeding the world into the future and reaching the Paris goals. This requires large-scale financing, and careful attention for trade-offs with nutrition, biodiversity, water, health and poverty reduction.
Over the past decades, the scale of the problem has gradually become clearer. Climate change and its impacts are now key ingredients in the conversation on how to keep the global food system resilient to shocks and negative trends. The other way around, things have moved more slowly. Food systems are beginning to get more attention in conversations on climate change (see for example the attention for food systems in the latest IPCC reports), but financing for the necessary transition lags behind. In particular, it has proven difficult to link financing to the smallholder farmers.
Smallholder farmers produce a substantial part of the world’s food, especially in LMICs. Their farms are often in more vulnerable landscapes than large farms and bear the brunt of climate change. At the same time, limited income levels mean that many farmers are understandably reluctant to increase their financial risks.
This session will consist of the following elements:
• An overview of the size of the challenge of food systems transformation, and how this relates to smallholder farmers
• A conversation among those on the stage about (1) the challenges in linking smallholder farmers to financing and (2) possible ways forward
• A conversation with the audience on what needs to be done to get from good examples to change at global scale.
Co-organisers: NL Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CGIAR, East African Farmers Federation, FMO, and SNV
8:30 - 9:00
Meditation and Inner Nutrition
Brahma Kumaris
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9:00 - 10:00
Communication Connection with Greenhouse
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15:30 - 17:00
Pavilion and Community Leader Solutions Dialogues
Co-hosted by Future Economy Forum & Food Tank
09:00 - 10:00
Fireside Chat: Adaptation and Food Systems from a Party Perspective
Co-organised by CGIAR and ProVeg International
Open to all Blue Zone badge holders
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12:00 - 13:00
Fireside Chat: Unlocking Climate Finance for a Resilient Agrifood Future: how can we bridge the $500 billion gap?
Co-organised by CGIAR, FAO, FAST Partnership
Open to all Blue Zone badge holders.
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18:00 - 19:00
Briefing for the Food Systems Community
Open to all Blue Zone badge holders