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How Agroecology Can Help Countries Tap Climate Finance and Fund Food Systems Transformation

Food Tank

This is the second part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. Called Resilient food futures: agroecology and climate finance for ambitious NDCs 3.0, Read part one.

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Op-Ed | A Missing Investment Strategy: Climate Resilience Hides in Local Food Markets

Food Tank

Policymakers, donors, and investors are seeing the wisdom of investing in soil restoration, agroecology, agroforestry, and biodiversity, among other regenerative actions. Not only are these markets a good fit for smallholder farmers who practice agroecology , but they are also more equitable and accessible for women and youth.

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Harvesting Solutions: How Food Systems Can Unlock Progress on Climate and Biodiversity

Food Tank

This is the first part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. And efforts to make food systems more nature positive, including through agroecology, must be integral to each.

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Can Agroforestry Breathe New Life Into Carbon Markets?

Civil Eats

“The direction of the market at present points to the fact that regenerative, nature-based credits are priced artificially low and that valuing mitigation projects based solely on their supposed carbon benefit is neither the proper vehicle to drive drawdown nor to finance better land management,” she acknowledges.

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Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Yet, without defined priorities or target recipients, the program may inevitably lend itself to financing large-scale operations rather than serve as a new capital product for small, scaling, or new local operations.

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Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

Financial institutions, including several UK banks, are also investing in piloting new finance schemes. xliii] Improved pastures managed using agroecological practices contain up to 41% more plant species than conventionally managed pastures, a level of species richness comparable with some semi-natural grasslands. cattle industry.

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Why we’re in a critical period in the development of regenerative agriculture

Agritecture Blog

Producer premiums for regenerative products have begun to pop up but, as Bande notes, the financing mechanism must be “way broader” than this. He argues agroecological systems are “networks of relationships, not collections of practices. They cannot be easily rendered into a set of definitions, standards or technological principles”.