RCC MENA and SA, the UN Climate Change Regional Collaboration Center for MENA and South Asia hosted by the WGEO in Dubai, and the FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa are organizing a webinar as a platform to discuss the status of food security in the MENA region, showcase food security policies, and understand the available support ecosystem for food security in the context of the NDCs 3.0.

 

Background

The outcome of the first Global Stocktake (GST) emphasizes the importance of the global goal on adaptation of enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience, and reducing vulnerability to climate change. The GST also recognized the fundamental priority of safeguarding food security and ending hunger. More specifically, the GST outcome encourages the implementation of integrated, multi-sectoral solutions, such as resilient food systems. The decision also urges Parties and invites non-Party stakeholders to accelerate swift action towards the achievement, by 2030 and beyond, of targets, such as, inter alia, the attainment of climate-resilient food and agricultural production and supply and distribution of food, as well as increasing sustainable and regenerative production and equitable access to adequate food and nutrition for all. 

In addition, the first GST outcome recognizes the increasing adaptation planning and implementation efforts being undertaken by Parties towards enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability, as set out in national adaptation plans (NAPs), adaptation communications and nationally determined contributions (NDCs). The call to Parties to have in place their NAPs by 2025, and the next round of NDCs, due in early 2025, can be an opportunity to highlight food security prioritization.

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