Green Climate Fund and AGRA partner to transform Africa's food systems
The Green Climate Fund (GCF), in collaboration with AGRA have launched Re-Gain, a regional programme that will support Africa’s food production.
This milestone was announced at the African Heads of States Food Systems Session at COP28, organized by AUDA-NEPAD and AGRA. The initiative will enhance African smallholders' access to technologies, make food loss reduction solutions more accessible and affordable, and support the creation of enabling environments for food systems transformation.
The project will seek to support the wide scale adoption of food loss solutions, in partnership with the private sector. Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia have joined this initiative, and further participation is expected in subsequent phases. This has been made possible through funding from GCF.
The financial support will enable partners and participating countries to conduct diagnostics and consultations, align programmes with country priorities and climate science, and deliver meaningful impact to African smallholders.
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More than 135 world leaders endorse Food and Agriculture Declaration
Over 135 countries, including 35 African Countries – representing over 5.7 billion people, 70 per cent of the food we eat, nearly 500 million farmers and 76 percent of total emissions from the global food system – have signed up to the leaders-level ‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action.’
The Declaration is the first of its kind for the COP process and stresses the need for common action on climate change, which adversely affects a large portion of the world’s population, particularly those living in vulnerable countries and communities.
More than $2.5 billion has been mobilized by the global community to support the food-climate agenda, H.E. Mariam Bint Mohammed Almheiri, UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment and COP28 Food Systems Lead, announced.
COP28 Food Systems and Agriculture Agenda has four pillars, covering national leadership, non-state actors, scaling up innovation, and finance.