Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and Wageningen University & Research

8 April 2022. High-level event: Launching of the Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and Wageningen University & Research

Recording forthcoming

The high-level event celebrated the longstanding partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), raised awareness of the new and strengthened areas of cooperation under the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding, and inspire the audience to learn more about FAO and WUR joint efforts to support the achievement of the Sustainable.

• FAO Director-General, Mr QU Dongyu
  
• President of the Executive Board of Wageningen University & Research, Professor Louise O. Fresco
• The Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture, Ambassador Marcel Beukeboom
• FAO Chief Scientist, Ms Ismahane Elouafi

Highlight:

Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture through NDCs and National Adaptation Plans (SCALA)

FAO and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are co-leading a 5-year programme (2020-2025) called Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture through Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans (SCALA), funded by the German Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) through its International Climate Initiative (IKI). 

SCALA responds to the urgent need for increased action to cope with climate change impacts in the agriculture and land use sectors. The 20 million euro programme will support at least twelve countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to build adaptive capacity and to implement low emission priorities.

Country support includes strengthening policies, adopting innovative approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation, removing barriers related to information gaps, governance, finance, gender mainstreaming and integrated monitoring and reporting. To achieve this shift, the programme will engage the private sector and key national institutions.

SCALA supports countries to develop the capacity to own and lead the process to meet targets set out in their National Adaptation Plans and nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement, and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The SCALA initiative builds on another FAO-UNDP led programme, Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (2015-2020) which is currently phasing out. 

Partner countries: Argentina Cambodia Colombia Costa Rica Cote d’Ivoire Egypt Ethiopia Mongolia Nepal Senegal Thailand Uganda