Water-Energy-Food Systems
TEC Rolling Workplan 2023-2027
Transforming The Agrifood Systems with Climate Technologies Uptake
The 2022 IPCC report highlighted the severe repercussions of intensified global warming and extreme weather events on food and water security, as well as agricultural productivity. Water, energy and food are essential for human well-being, poverty reduction and sustainable development. Energy is used throughout the agrifood systems’ value chain and strong links exist between climate change response, water management, livelihoods, nutrition, and food security. Limited or inadequate access to energy along the agri-food chains has negative impacts, including increased food loss, limited capacity to produce higher value products and limitations in the ability of farmers to increase incomes and improve livelihoods. Reducing energy-related emissions from agri-food chains requires the promotion and scaling up of renewable energy technologies and improvement of energy efficiency. Furthermore, this allows to reduce food losses caused by improper storage and handling, reduce deforestation by providing sustainable alternatives to using wood fuels for cooking and an overall increase in rural incomes and agricultural productivity. In particular, water-energy-food nexus presents opportunities for achieving the climate goals.
In the TEC rolling workplan for 2023–2027, which is part of the joint work programme of the Technology Mechanism, the committee has identified the work on Water-Energy-Food nexus as a key activity under the ‘transformative and innovative solutions’ workstream and the joint work programme of the Technology Mechanism for 2023-2027 outlines Water-Energy-Food systems as a common area of work for the TEC and CTCN.
Climate Technologies for Agrifood System Transformation: Placing food security, climate change and poverty reduction at the forefrontThe TEC, in collaboration with the FAO, analysed knowledge gaps and identifies relevant climate technologies to promote transforming the agrifood systems, as set out in its rolling workplan 2023-2027.
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Moving forward with NDC acceleration in agrifood systems: Climate Technology Uptake
The high-level dialogue on 19 November 2024, will convene a diverse set of ministers, local and regional leaders, financial institutions, and non-government stakeholders. This dialogue aims to accelerate actions to implement NDCs and other global and national policies through climate technologies uptake in agrifood systems and to address challenges identified in the report.
