Food-Climate Connections

Strengthen resilience of farms, food value-chains and rural systems to current climate variability, extreme events and longer-term climate trends, so food security is protected. 

Build and reshape innovation systems (research-practice linkages, partnerships, local knowledge, co-production) so that solutions emerge faster, are more relevant, and scale effectively. 

Enable farmers and food-system actors to make informed decisions (through climate services, early warning, better risk-management) so they can invest, innovate and adapt. 

Shift agricultural and rural livelihoods toward climate-resilient trajectories. 

Reduce barriers (financial, institutional, knowledge) that prevent smallholders from accessing innovations, markets or support, thereby lowering vulnerability and enabling scaling. 

Reinforce linkages between production, value-chains and rural economies so that farming becomes part of dynamic, diversified livelihood systems rather than only low-income subsistence. 

Reconfigure investments, policies and institutions so that farming systems serve inclusive rural development (especially benefiting smallholders, women and youth