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A new guidance document from the FAO on strengthening the interface between science and policy in agrifood systems. Why do we need science-policy interfaces (SPIs), what do they aim to achieve and how do we structure them to ensure inclusive science- and evidence-based policymaking? This document was developed in collaboration with the Juno Evidence Alliance, a Hesat2030 initiative.

⏩ What makes the Latin America and Caribbean region unique? ⏩ What is AVANZAR2030 and what does it plan to achieve? ⏩ What are the links between AVANZAR2030 and Hesat2030? ⏩ Who are the partners contributing to AVANZAR2030? Find out from Hesat2030 Co-Chair, Valeria Piñeiro, who heads AVANZAR2030 in video below 👇 https://lnkd.in/ett5vaSg Earlier this month, AVANZAR2030 co-organized a side-event during the #T20 Summit that explored how the LAC region can lead the transition towards sustainable agrifood systems: https://lnkd.in/eeqEahcd Joaquin Arias Segura | Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) | Fabio Veras Soares | Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) | Brian McNamara | Elsa Olivetti | FAO | Carin Smaller | Shamba Centre for Food & Climate | Francine Picard | Jaron Porciello | CABI | Juno Evidence Alliance | David Laborde | Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty | Thiago Lima | Sabine Papendieck | Estrateco

🎉 Hesat2030 is now part of the Food Systems Architecture Database. Hesat2030 partner Global Donor Platform for Rural Development developed a new tool to provide greater clarity on the often complex and multifaceted web of organisations and initiatives working in the area of global food systems and agricultural development. 💡 Check it out: https://lnkd.in/eRQ33UQb 📆 Hesat2030 Co-Chair, Carin Smaller, will participate in the upcoming GDPRD Annual General Assembly this week as part of the panel reflecting on the event them: Financing Food Systems Transformation and Rural Revitalization: Opportunities and Challenges. 🔗 Register at: https://lnkd.in/e-cXwfvn #database #aga2024 #foodsystems #financingdevelopment

Hesat2030 welcomes the launch of the G20's Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty under the aegis of the Brazilian Presidency. This initiative brings a much-needed spotlight - at the highest political level - on the double scourge of hunger and poverty. We also welcome the commitment of the many countries and organizations that have joined this initiative. As the latest figures from the #SOFI report show, we are failing to address food insecurity. After rising sharply from 2019 to 2021, global hunger has persisted at nearly the same level for the past three years and continues to affect 733 million people. Our inability to take action has a steep cost. According to the most recent estimates, ending hunger by 2030 will cost an additional USD 540 billion whereas our earlier projections made in Ceres2030 in 2020 had estimated an extra USD 330 billion. By aligning our efforts and capitalizing on the current political momentum generated by Brazil, we can achieve our common goals – ending hunger and malnutrition, improving the livelihood of small producers and mitigating against further damage to our planet. Read the full statement: https://lnkd.in/eBhzxs24 Jaron Porciello | Valeria Piñeiro | David Laborde | Carin Smaller | Zero Hunger Coalition | Francine Picard | Ibrahim Mayaki | Juno Evidence Alliance | Hafsa Sheikh | CABI | Joaquin Arias Segura | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) | Shamba Centre for Food & Climate | Global Donor Platform for Rural Development | Maurizio Navarra | Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) | Lawrence Haddad CMG

How can knowledge and evidence from the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region can contribute to the ambitions of the G20 Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty? The LAC region has the potential to become a global leader in sustainable agriculture transformation. It is currently the world’s largest net food-exporting region and provides important ecosystem services, housing 49% of the world’s forest carbon stock.  However, the region also faces challenges due to climate change, the difficulty for many to access and afford healthy diets and an agricultural productivity rate that has slowed in comparison to other regions.  Last week, #Avanzar2030 co-organized a side-event as part of the #T20 Summit in the run-up to the #G20 Summit which brought together experts from Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), Estrateco and the Ministry of Finance - Brazil for a discussion moderated by Hesat2030 Co-Chair, Valeria Piñeiro. Avanzar2030, an initiative launched in response to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, showcased how evidence-based strategies can promote sustainable solutions. Initial results from Avanzar2030 show: ➡️ The benefits of transitioning away from subsidies towards incentives that can achieve long-term positive outcomes such as soil health and biodiversity improvements.  ➡️ Incentives and mechanisms to scale climate action must be tailored to local contexts and offer a collaborative and multistakeholder approach. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eeqEahcd Thiago Lima | Sabine Papendieck | Joaquin Arias Segura | MARCELO JOSE NONNENBERG |

As #COP29 opens in Baku with a focus on finance, we need to know how much of government aid is going to fund climate projects? And, of the aid grants to agriculture and food security, how much also meets climate objectives? Research finds that more than 80% of aid to agriculture and food security screened had no climate mitigation objective, and over 60% had no climate adaptation objective. Using the OECD - OCDE Development Assistance Committee database, researchers screened USD 12 billion in spending on agriculture and food security projects in 2021. They found that only USD 2.2 billion was spent on projects with an objective related to climate mitigation and USD 5 billion on projects with a climate adaptation objective. Why the difficulty to link agriculture and food security aid with climate action?   ⏩ There is an inconsistent use of the climate change markers ⏩ The design of the climate markers, with a strong environmental framework, means that many agricultural projects that do have a climate link do not align with the requirements of the marker.   ⏩ The lack of consensus a common standard to quantifying aid to agriculture and food security means the total amount of aid for agriculture and food security is contested and the full extent of the links across sectors unknown. 👀 How can Agriculture and Food Security Aid Tracker can help? To progress towards a more coherent framework, the FAO and the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, as part of the Hesat2030, are building an Agriculture and Food Security Aid Tracker for donors to better understand and assess their contribution to multiple sustainable development outcomes.  The new Agriculture and Food Security Aid Tracker will provide donors with: ⏩ Greater transparency on how they are recording ODA to agriculture and food security, and whether it is linked to climate action. ⏩ Through artificial intelligence tools, such as text mining, it will help donors identify the aid that offers the strong linkages with climate change but is missing due to inconsistent use of the climate markers or poor coding. Ultimately, it will help donor agencies and advocates make the case for more ODA that links agriculture, food security and climate change, and make sure that they are not missing opportunities to leverage the billions of dollars of aid going to climate finance to accelerate progress towards SDG 2 and sustainable food systems transformation. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e8rU8_yC David Laborde Carin Smaller Mali Eber Rose Elsa Olivetti

How much do countries spend on ODA? #SOFI2024 provides much needed guidance on how to define public and private financing for food security and nutrition. However, despite a common definition on financing, and the use of a shared aid database, a common standard to track official development assistance (ODA) is lacking. ⏩ This results in significantly different estimates on how much ODA is spent on food security and nutrition – from USD 5.9 to USD 63.8 billion. As part of Hesat2030, the FAO and the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate have published three background papers to understand current measures to define ODA, map what already exists, and make the case for a new ODA tracker for food security and nutrition. 1️⃣ Towards a common definition of aid for food security and nutrition: https://lnkd.in/eR7uRymh 2️⃣ A review of existing food security and nutrition aid trackers: https://lnkd.in/exc_rvED 3️⃣ The case for the food security and nutrition aid tracker: https://lnkd.in/e5-wX9Nz Why do we need a common standard to track ODA? 👉 To allow donors to understand who is giving, how much they are giving, where they are giving, and on what 👉 To allow researchers to measure the investment gap to achieve certain goals 👉 To allow civil society to track, monitor and hold governments to account for their commitments 👉 To allow donors to better leverage other sources of development finance so they can design better projects to achieve multiple outcomes Find out more about these background papers: https://lnkd.in/ep6cVpGn David Laborde Carin Smaller Mali Eber Rose Elsa Olivetti Hafsa Sheikh Lysiane L. Neil Watkins Maurizio Navarra Michelle Tang Lawrence Haddad CMG Global Donor Platform for Rural Development Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) CABI Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Our inability to take action to end hunger has a cost: USD 210 billion. In 2020, Ceres2030 projected that it would cost an additional USD 330 billion to end hunger by 2030. Now, however, recent reports show that ending hunger by 2030 will cost an extra USD 540 billion. This is the cost of our inaction. Nearly half of the additional public expenditure will finance social protection payments. However, such expenditure is not fiscally sustainable. Instead, an industrial development approach centred on jobs and income is needed. Hesat2030 Co-Chair, Carin Smaller, presented the findings of a new report published by UNIDO and FAO that focuses on end hunger through an income-generating approach at the local level. This presentation, alongside Maximo Torero, opened the high-level ministerial conference, World Without Hunger organised by UNIDO, the African Union and the Government of Ethiopia currently underway in Addis Ababa. This new approach promotes policies to increase productivity on-the-farm, expand local food processing and provide the most vulnerable with the means to meet their basic needs. Doing so will allow for an effective way to redistribute production and consumption to where it is needed most. Watch the session: https://lnkd.in/eet3gvYm Read the report: https://lnkd.in/dTNncK7u David Laborde Oshani Perera Francine Picard Elsa Olivetti Lysiane L. Kamal El Harty Gunther Beger Rana Fakhoury Hannah Grupp

Event alert 🔔 Join the Zero Hunger Coalition and its partners SDG2 Advocacy Hub, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), the African Food Systems Parliamentary Network, The Consortium of African Youth in Agriculture and Climate Change (CAYACC) and the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate for their next webinar as part of their #RoadToKampala series. This webinar will explore how the Zero Hunger Coalition, G20 Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty and the Alliance of Champions for Food Systems Transformation can align and coordinate their efforts to help Africa implement its next framework for agrifood systems (CAADP3). See below for more details 👇

What is Hesat2030 and what makes it unique? Hesat2030 brings together academics, applied researchers, donors, policy makers and partners from all over the world to generate evidence that can inform donors and policy makers and impact their investment in food security and nutrition. It uses evidence-synthesis and cost-modelling to determine the most effective and efficient interventions to end hunger and malnutrition while also addressing climate change and equity. As Hesat2030 Co-Chair David Laborde explains, "Good information and good data are the basis for good decisions. Hesat2030 delivers the right answers to the right people." Watch here: https://lnkd.in/ept7yvyc Valeria Piñeiro Carin Smaller Jaron Porciello Hafsa Sheikh Vlada Boldyreva Maximo Torero Francine Picard Maurizio Navarra Michelle Tang Ibrahim Mayaki FAO Shamba Centre for Food & Climate Juno Evidence Alliance CABI Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) Global Donor Platform for Rural Development Zero Hunger Coalition