Nature-positive Agrifood Systems

Nature-positive Agrifood Systems

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This toolkit was developed collaboratively by WWF, Climate Focus, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CIAT-Bioversity, the NDC Partnership Support Unit, and partners, with financial support for the 2025 edition from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

This toolkit includes 356 resources from 175 organizations across 33 sectors that can help accelerate a sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems, including:

• Guidance and frameworks: Policy briefs, implementation guides, frameworks, and more that can help policymakers implement sustainable agriculture and sustainable food systems measures and/or implement their country's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs);Technical tools: Analytical tools for climate, land-use, and biodiversity assessments in the context of food systems, ranging from emissions scenario calculators and climate risk screening tools with geospatial data to land-use comparison models, cost-benefit analysis tools for sustainable agriculture transitions, and frameworks for resolving land-use conflicts;
• Partnerships, platforms, or initiatives: Organisations, initiatives, dedicated to supporting countries in developing, implementing, and monitoring their national plans and strategies or otherwise supporting the advancement of sustainable food systems;
• Implementation case studies: Real-world programs, projects, and policies that successfully integrate food systems targets and measures into national climate and biodiversity strategies;
• National strategy examples: Specific NDCs, NAPs, and NBSAPs examples with explanations of how they demonstrate agriculture and food systems integration and are developed through inclusive, multi-stakeholder processes.

The toolkit covers resources specific to a wide range of sectors and themes, including livestock, crops, fisheries and aquaculture, agroforestry, nutrition, food security, forestry and other land use, biodiversity, nature-based solutions and ecosystem services, water, cities, coastal zones and oceans, disaster risk reduction, economic recovery, education, energy, gender equality, health, infrastructure and industry, livelihoods, poverty alleviation, waste, rural development, transport, youth, just transition.