Host: Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
The concept of a Just Transition has emerged as a unifying call across sectors to ensure that responses to climate change do not reproduce inequalities but instead uphold human rights, livelihoods, and dignity. However, agriculture and food systems remain largely invisible in the ongoing UNFCCC Just Transition Work Programme.
Agroecology offers a concrete pathway to achieving just transition in agriculture and owing to its principles including but not limited to building resilience, restoring ecosystems, strengthening local economies, and securing the right to food. Importantly, agroecology embodies justice, social, economic, environmental, and intergenerational, making it central to a fair and inclusive transition in agriculture.
This side event will highlight lived experiences of frontline actors including smallholder farmers, women, youth, and indigenous groups demonstrating how agroecology practices drive resilience and justice.
Unpack policy opportunities for integrating agroecology into the Just Transition Work Programme, NDCs, NAPs, and national agricultural plans.
Facilitate dialogue among civil society, farmers’ movements, and policymakers on phasing out industrial agriculture and scaling up agroecology.