The Global Action Agenda for
Innovation in Agriculture
The Global Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture — aka the #ClimateShot — will close the ‘innovation gap’ in agriculture and food systems. This gap holds back current ambitions in adapting to — and mitigating the impact of — climate change.
ClimateShot - THE Key Objectives
Increase investment in agricultural research and innovation to create more climate-resilient, low-emission technologies and practices;
Focus at least a third of agricultural research and innovation investments deliver demand-driven solutions across food systems, to protect nature and limit climate change;
Showcase successful business models and promote public-private partnerships that deploy these innovations on the scale needed to meet the climate and food security challenge;
Forge consensus on the evidence of what works, and facilitate inclusive dialogue among food and climate champions around the world.
THe Global Action Agenda for INNOVATION in agriculture
With the launch of the #ClimateShot global action agenda at the UN COP26 Climate Change summit in Glasgow, the agricultural innovation race to save our planet has officially begun.
Let the #Climateshot begin!
This #ClimateShot brings together our allies — governments, research organisations, financial institutions, implementing agencies, businesses and civil society — to build a groundswell of support and commitments to its ambitions at COP26.
The #ClimateShot goals were crafted by evidence reviews and engagement with key stakeholders through events over the course of 2021. These included the Climate Adaptation Summit, the 47th and 48th Committees on Food Security and most recently the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit.
Crucially, the #ClimateShot is also informed by engagement with countries through the Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) dialogue as well as the Policy Action Agenda for Transition to Sustainable Food and Agriculture.
How the ClimateShot will deliver on its ambitions
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The Global Action Agenda for Innovation in agriculutre
The #ClimateShot will transform the multi-billion dollar research and innovation ecosystem that underpins agriculture and food systems.
This will help us feed a growing global population — which the UN estimates to be nearly 10 billion by 2050 — in a way that protects nature and limits greenhouse gas emissions.
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Climateshot Priority initiatives
A preliminary list of priority initiatives will help implement the ambitions of the Global Action Agenda, including:
100 Million Farmers Multi-Stakeholder Platform
The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA)
New CGIAR organisational structure and reseach priorities
ClimateShot for Impact Investors
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Allies contributions and pledges
To accelerate research and innovation in agriculture, we’re creating a global alliance of organisations who support the Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture.
Contributions and pledges from ClimateShot allies will operationalise the vision and objectives of the Global Action Agenda.
CLIMATESHOT PRIORITY INITIATIVES
A preliminary list of priority initiatives will help implement the ambitions of the Global Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture. These currently include the 100 Million Farmers Multi-Stakeholder Platform convened by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA), CGIAR, and a new ClimateShot Coalition on Impact Investment. To advance the vision and ensure the successful implementation of the Global Action Agenda, more initiatives will be welcomed in the upcoming years.
Download the PDFs corresponding to each initiative to learn more.
The 100 Million Farmers multi-stakeholder platform
The 100 Million Farmers multi-stakeholder platform puts forward an actionable and transformative contribution to the Global Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture by catalysing action through its regional ‘lighthouse’ projects to accelerate the transition towards net-zero, nature-positive food systems by 2030.
ONE CGIAR
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research and innovation network, has undergone a transformation to “One CGIAR,” with a new organisational structure and a far-reaching research and innovation strategy. CGIAR will contribute to the Global Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture by addressing climate change and protecting nature while advancing gender equality, poverty reduction, and food and nutrition security for the world’s most vulnerable small-scale producers and consumers.
The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA)
The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA) focuses on building global research and science capability. GRA makes a key contribution to the Global Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture by facilitating collaborative and evidence-based dialogue and knowledge sharing.
ClimateShot for Impact Investors
This initiative gathers leading organisations investing in private sector-led solutions in agriculture and food systems, to accelerate financing for the Sustainable Development Goals. It makes a key contribution to the Global Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture by establishing a coalition of organisations around a shared set of priority actions that will ultimately drive increased investment to scale solutions that work for people, nature and climate.
Allies contributions and pledges
The transformation of agricultural innovation requires collective action by those who have a stake in the agricultural sector. We welcome the following groups to become allies of the ClimateShot.
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Engage with research projects and the innovation process, holding institutions to account by articulating and communicating their needs, concerns and priorities.
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Increase and reorient funding to accelerate the development and scaling of sustainable technologies and practices.
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Provide policy support to agricultural research and innovation while repurposing subsidies to enable both.
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Commit to demand-driven solutions that deliver innovations at scale.
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Increase and reorient funding for agricultural research and innovation, and scale up new climate-resilient technologies and practices.
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Commit to demand-driven solutions that deliver innovations at scale.
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Commit to the rapid deployment of innovation as part of a wholesale ‘end-to-end’ approach across food systems, from ‘farm to fork’.
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