Animal and aquatic food systems sustain billions and drive resilience for smallholders, women, and youth in LMICs. Yet they remain highly vulnerable and underfunded in climate action. This COP30 session will showcase CGIAR’s science-based, finance-ready innovations that cut emissions, boost productivity, and build resilience. It will highlight evidence, partnerships, and investment opportunities to position livestock and aquatic systems as key solutions in achieving climate, adaptation, and global food system goals.

Event objectives

Demonstrate how science-based innovations in livestock and aquatic systems deliver measurable climate, nutrition, and equity outcomes.

Showcase actionable investment cases and policy pathways that integrate animal and aquatic food systems into national climate strategies and finance mechanisms.

Strengthen partnerships among governments, finance institutions, and community actors to scale resilient and low-emission food systems.

Influence COP30 dialogues to ensure animal and aquatic systems are recognized as critical levers for adaptation, mitigation, and just transition.

Key outcomes

Animal and aquatic food systems are explicitly recognized as mitigation, adaptation and finance priorities in NDC and Global Stocktake debates.

Stronger linkages between on-farm innovation and national-level data collection and reporting for climate action.

New partnerships forged with governments, finance institutions, and community actors to co-develop investment cases that ensure equity for smallholders, women, youth, and indigenous peoples.