The importance of agrifood systems to tackle climate change: Interview with Kaveh Zahedi

Three crucial United Nations climate and environmental summits will be held in the last quarter of 2024: the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) in Cali, Colombia, from 21 October to 1 November; the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) hosted by Azerbaijan in Baku from 11-22 November; and the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2 to 13 December

In this interview, Kaveh Zahedi, Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), explains that FAO’s advocates for placing agrifood system solutions at the heart of the global efforts to tackle climate change while safeguarding rural livelihoods.

00:12 What is FAO’s main message for the upcoming UN summits on climate change, biodiversity and land degradation?
00:44 What is needed to accelerate the transformation of agrifood systems?
02:02 What is the Baku Harmoniya Climate Initiative for Farmers presented by the COP29 Presidency and why is FAO supporting it?

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