Linking food & climate action: complementarities between the UNFSS national pathways

The current food systems and climate crises are deeply interconnected. In 2017, the UNFCCC Conference of Parties recognized this linkage by setting up the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA), the only sectoral programme to focus on agriculture and food within the climate space. Since then, the topic has gained increasing attention, reaching its peak at the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which helped to raise awareness in the global community on the need to radically reform not only agriculture but our food systems to address the climate challenge.  At COP 27 decisions must be made on the future of the KJWA and broadening its scope to food systems is urgently needed. While today there is increased understanding and commitment across food systems stakeholders on the need to transform food systems, the actions identified during the KJWA and UNFSS processes lack integration. This event will engage speakers and the audience in a discussion around areas of convergence and synergies between the KJWA outcomes and the national pathways of food systems transformation which came out of the UNFSS. The session will also explore the role that stakeholder including CFS can play in bringing the post-summit process and the KJWA outcomes together.