NOW Partners Foundation was at UNFCCC’s mid-year Climate Conference, SB64, creating continuity between COP30 and COP31 to feature the COP30 Plan to Accelerate Solutions, the TERRA Action Agenda, and the Global Academy.

Opened by Ambassador Andre Correa do Lago, President of COP30, and NOW’s Chair Walter Link, NOW co-organized this high level action dialogue that featured PAS COACT, PAS TERRA, and GLOBAL ACADEMY.

Together with the COP30 Presidency and Brazil’s Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Farming (MDA), Forest and Farm Facility/FAO, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Agroecology Coalition and CGIAR, NOW co-created PAS TERRA.

TERRA aims to scale agroecology and agroforestry into a new mainstream of agriculture, forestry and food systems that integrate the regeneration of natural and social systems with significantly increasing the financial success of smallholder farmers, their organizations and rural economy.

NOW’s Managing Partner, Daniël Povel, highlighted the necessity of blended finance to facilitate the systemic transition towards agroecology and agroforestry. “To address the systemic proof-to-scale gap that prevents successful agroecology and agroforestry approaches from scaling, NOW develops together with local partners blended finance solutions that help farmer organizations access public and private capital.” More about NOW’s Blended Finance approach here.

Leonardo Andrade of Solucoes Naturais and Global Academy highlighted Global Academy’s work to bring together practitioners of leading agroecology and agroforestry methods for co-innovation and capacity building:

“Global Academy’s Agroecology and Agroforestry Hubs for co-innovation and capacity building scale the transition of farmers at 3 levels: policy design and implementation, improving farmers skills throughout the value chain, from cultivation to access to public and private markets, and via blended finance mechanisms.”

Rosinah Mbenya, of PELUM Kenya Association and Senior Fellow of Global Academy, spoke about the benefits of developing agroecology and agroforestry hubs for farmers in Kenya and beyond. Learn more about Global Academy here.

The event also launched the PAS COACT for the Convergence and Coherence of Public Policies for Climate Action and Food Systems Transformation, established at the request of the COP30 Presidency by Brazil’s Ministry of Social Development (MDS) with international and local partners.