Smart Net-Zero

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) | Source | Report |

This FAO assessment reviews how agrifood systems are addressed in countries’ National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and finds a persistent gap between recognition and implementation. While most countries identify agriculture as highly climate-vulnerable, agrifood priorities remain underfunded and weakly operationalized. The report shows that agrifood systems account for around 54% of total adaptation finance needs identified in costed NAPs, yet receive only 20% of global adaptation finance, or roughly 1% of total climate finance. Many NAPs lack clear investment plans, costed actions, and links to financing mechanisms, and only about one-third are supported by climate risk and vulnerability assessments. In addition, relatively few adaptation measures explicitly target reported climate hazards or vulnerable groups such as smallholders and women. By highlighting these misalignments, the report calls for stronger integration of climate-smart agriculture into NAPs, improved cross-ministerial coordination, and clearer, finance-ready pathways to translate adaptation ambitions into action.