Last month, we launched the ClimateShot Global Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture and we’re thrilled with the global reach of our campaign.

Partners: SNV, Netherlands Space Agency (NSO), Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Agriculture and livestock are the backbone of Sahelian livelihoods. However, climate change and growing insecurity continue to threaten pastoralists’ resilience and food security. Digital solutions can help them to cope with those challenges.

Partners: Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Farms and Farmers (FnF), DeHaat, Bihar Agriculture Management and Extension Training Institute (BAMETI), Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University (RPCAU)

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and our local partners are working in the northeast Indian state of Bihar to spread climate-smart farming techniques using a digital platform and mobile phone app called DeHaat (the Hindi word for “Village or Rural Hinterlands”).

Partners: CoSAI, Havos.ai
What are we looking at as an agricultural research community? More importantly, what are we not looking at? Analysing the meta data of over one million agriculturally related publications reveals that there is nearly twice as much literature on the technological domain as there is on environmental and socioeconomic domains.

Partners: Pesitho, World Food Programme

It is estimated that two billion people depend on wood fuel as their energy source for cooking. This contributes to deforestation, particularly where internal displacement or refugee movements increase the pressure on shared natural resources, and to meet the urban demand for charcoal.

Partners: Weather Impact, AUXFIN
The agricultural sector is the most important segment of Burundi’s economy. It is estimated that 95% of Burundians work in the agricultural sector. At the same time 70% of the population is food insecure—due to lack of food production—and makes less than a dollar a day. Farmers in Burundi are therefore some of the poorest in the world. Yet farming is crucial for the country’s food security especially due to its rapid population growth rate (3% in 2021).

Partners: SunCulture, Energy Access Ventures, Microsoft, REEEP, MIT, PG Impact, GSMA, EDF, Shell Foundation, SNV, USAID, EEP Africa, Mercy Corps, DPI, Acumen Capital Partners, Self Help Africa
Smallholder farmers are gaining access to agricultural assets previously out of reach through Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) models. PAYG leverages mobile money payments and remote-locking technologies to viably provide assets such as farm equipment, energy grids and irrigation systems to farmers.

Partner: Good Food Institute

Alternative protein innovation can and will benefit people across the entire food system, from farmers and small-scale producers, to processors and end product manufacturers. The Good Food Institute (GFI) is helping to develop indigenous sources of plant proteins for the alternative proteins sector in Brazil and internationally.

Partners: Ryan Institute at National University of Ireland Galway and CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Program.

Transformational change to transition to climate smart agrifood systems needs transformational people at all levels. The National University of Ireland Galway is a strategic research partner of the CGIAR’s Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) program which has been working on development of innovative multidisciplinary education and training programs to build capacity for transforming agrifood systems in the face of climate change and other sustainability challenges.

Partners: The eco.business Fund was initiated by Germany’s KfW Development Bank, Conservation International and Finance in Motion with financial support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The fund is advised by Finance in Motion.

At its core, biodiversity is the foundation on which many businesses and all livelihoods depend. When calculating biodiversity services in financial terms, the economic value of biodiversity to society globally is estimated at approximately USD 33 trillion per year.

Partners: Aceli Africa, supported in part by IKEA Foundation, USAID, and the Swiss Development Cooperation

New data finds that lending to agricultural SMEs in East Africa is twice as risky and generates 3-5% lower returns than lending in other sectors in the region. Aceli Africa is a market incentive facility designed to overcome these barriers and mobilize $600M in private sector lending to high-impact (i.e., climate-smart, gender inclusive) agricultural SMEs by 2025.

Partners: SNV, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CGIAR’s Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Agriterra, Rabobank, Wageningen University and Research

The Climate Resilient Agribusiness for Tomorrow (CRAFT) Project promotes the uptake of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies in the East Africa region, as part of its overall climate smart services integration pathway to building resilient food value chains.

Partners: IRD, national and international meteorological agencies and research institutions, national and local government, development agencies and smallholder farmer networks

Developing relevant and useable climate information services is key for smallholder farming to adapt to climate variability and extremes. However, it is a complex and challenging process.

Partners: GSMA, Dialog Axiata Sri Lanka, MTN Nigeria, Digicel Papua New Guinea, Wageningen University & Research, Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI), TU Delft, Hyds, FCDO, DFAT

Reliable ground-level weather observations are key inputs to digital climate resilience services, providing more reliable data than remote sensing sources, however, this data is lacking in low and middle income countries (LMICs).

Partners: University of Leeds, Met Office, Chatham House, University of Aberdeen, FANRPAN, CISANET, ESRF, NAMC, ACF, GCRF, UKRI

Can countries in sub-Saharan Africa make sure their agricultural practices adapt to climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and still increase production in a way that improves the diet and nutrition of its population?

Partners: Solidaridad, AgroCares

About 70% of the rural population in Southern Africa relies on agriculture for their livelihoods, most of whom are highly vulnerable to climate change. However, smallholder farmers often lack technical knowledge and critical services for productive and resilient farm management.

Read the story behind #ClimateShot and learn why we're putting agricultural innovation at the heart of climate action.

Feeding a growing global population AND protecting the natural world is one of the most critical challenges we currently face.

Partner: FAIRR

ClimateShot Ally FAIRR was named a BBC Food & Farming Awards 2021 Food Innovation Award finalist for its work in leveraging the power of capital markets to transform food systems.

The FAIRR (Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return) Initiative – supported by investors with 45 trillion in collective assets - is the world's fastest-growing investor network focusing on ESG risks in the global food sector and advocating for transparency in our food systems.

ClimateShot builds on the experience of impact investment funds, advancing action to mobilise finance for people, nature and the climate.

ClimateShot has three action areas where impact investors can make a difference: (i) Mobilising financing to scale the solutions that work; (ii) Working together to unlock opportunities to enhance impact; and (iii) Understanding and accounting for our impact on people, nature and the climate.

Partners: Mercy Corps, Dalberg Advisors, Consumers International, World Economic Forum

In a few regions of the world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, inadequate food production is still a major cause of food and nutrition insecurity – this leads to other areas of the food system underperforming. Data collected in our food systems can be used to inform better farming practices but major gaps remain.