Food production drives climate change, deforestation, pollution, and biodiversity loss, contributing a third of global emissions. Unsustainable practices threaten key commodities like coffee, cocoa, and soy, worsening environmental degradation and rural poverty.

The FOLUR Impact Program, funded by the Global Environment Facility and led by the World Bank, reforms food systems and restores landscapes. Active in 27 countries since 2021, FOLUR promotes participatory approaches, involving local communities and Indigenous Peoples in resource management. The program uses tools like the Participatory Informed Landscape Approach (PILA) to connect projects with global knowledge and align with international regulations.

FOLUR aims for sustainable value chains by 2050, balancing high yields with conservation, and addressing the significant costs of food system inefficiencies estimated at $12.7 trillion by the FAO.

Download the spring update to learn more about FOLUR’s latest achievements.

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About the FOLUR Annual Meeting

The FOLUR Impact Program brought together over 100 country projects and core partners in São Paulo, Brazil, to discuss topics surrounding land restoration and sustainable value chain implementation over the course of four days.

In this video, the GLF’s Ludwig Liagre sits down with Sékou Yaya Baldé, National Director, Rural Promotion Service and Agricultural Council, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of the Republic of Guinea.

Learn more about the FOLUR Impact Program

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Working together to promote sustainable agricultural practices in Latin America and the Caribbean

Meet the three change-makers who are working toward sustainable agricultural practices in Latin America and the Caribbean:

• Dailson Andrade Santos, Manager of Private Markets, Cooperativa Agropecuária Familiar de Canudos, Uauá and Curuçá
• Fabiane Sebaio, Executive Secretary, Cerrado das Águas Consortium
• Gabriel Chaves, Rural Development Manager, Tabôa

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Acerca del Foro Digital Finanzas para la Naturaleza: Invirtiendo en Futuros Equitativos en América Latina y el Caribe

Nadie conoce la tierra mejor que las comunidades rurales; sin embargo, la población local recibe solo una pequeña fracción de la financiación climática. Es hora de trabajar juntos para cuidar nuestro planeta para las generaciones venideras.

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About the 6th GLF Investment Case Symposium

Hosted in Luxembourg and online, GLF–Luxembourg Finance for Nature 2023: What comes next? united 4,500 participants from 160 countries around how finance can solve – rather than exacerbate – the climate and biodiversity crises. The event featured 106 speakers and 100 global and local partner organizations and reached 10 million people on social media, with more than 230,000 engagements.

About this session

Imagine Impact Bonds is an independent white-label platform accelerating the issuance of impact project bonds, notes, and certificates at affordable cost. In collaboration with UNEP, Imagine launches a new bond issuance program to boost the financing of sustainable land use projects.

The session presents the principles of the Imagine Impact Bonds platform and the benefits of the SLU impact bonds program.

Resources

Publication: Sustainable Land Bonds: How governments can finance climate commitments and strengthen rural economies

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About GLF Africa 2022

GLF Africa 2022: How to build an equitable, resilient food future brought together over 8,500 participants from 122 countries and featured 182 leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth and government leaders, and 68 incredible partners to explore African solutions to the global food crisis caused by climate change, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. 

Across 31 plenaries, interactive sessions, launches, virtual tours, dialogues, performances, and a job fair, the digital conference explored ways to transform the future of food through healthy landscapes, equitable access to land, and shorter, greener value chains. Messages spread on social media rallied 26 million people around concrete ways for Africa to regain its food sovereignty.

How can we transform food systems and develop green supply chains across Africa?

In this closing plenary, Special Adviser on Africa to the United Nations Secretary-General Cristina Duarte, along with key speakers, introduces the concept of innovative ecosystems which are economic engines that scale innovations with high potential. They are fueled by collaboration and form support networks or enabling environments to elevate ideas, start-ups, and local organizations to their full potential.

By working across sectors and geopolitical boundaries, Africa can combine modern innovation, science, local practices, and traditional knowledge to attract the investment needed for a sustainable rural transformation.

Learn about the Impact Potential of Agricultural SMEs in Africa 

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GLF Amazonia 2021: As it happened

How women are restoring Amazonia

Women in Amazonia face a variety of barriers, but when given the opportunity, they can be strong leaders in conservation and sustainable development, says Deborah Delgado Pugley, associate professor and researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP).

Watch the full session video here.

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Though the number of people suffering from poor quality diets outnumbers the number suffering from lack of food, narratives addressing food security and agriculture are still dominated by productionist paradigms focused on producing more staple crops and calories, albeit with increasing attention to doing so sustainably. In this paper, we argue that a narrow focus on intensification of staple crop production in agricultural and food security policy may lead to unintended negative consequences for the dietary quality of millions of rural communities. We advocate for broadening the focus of agricultural policies and funding to take into account dietary diversity and quality.

Highlights:

• Many food security experts have been calling for agricultural intensification in developing countries to feed a growing global population
• This narrative is based on a narrow view of food security focused on calories and neglects issues of dietary quality
• Encouraging small farmers across the developing world to grow more staple crops more intensively may have unintended negative consequences on dietary quality
• A more nuanced approach sensitive to local contexts and appreciative of foods other than staples may lead to alternative policy choices in many places

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