Climate-Smart Agriculture

Climate change reshapes food production with regenerative agriculture, drought-resilient crops and carbon-negative farming emerging at scale. The session covers regenerative agriculture practices and outcome measurement, drought-resilient crop varieties through breeding and gene editing, carbon-negative farming and soil-carbon sequestration markets, soil microbiome restoration (PivotBio, Sound Agriculture), scope-3 emissions targets driving food-industry transformation (General Mills, Unilever, Nestlé), and climate-adaptation strategies for vulnerable crops. Discussion addresses cover-crop adoption barriers, regenerative-agriculture certification (Regenified, ROA), the EU Common Agricultural Policy climate measures, climate-resilient livestock systems, and the integration of climate-smart practices with smallholder farmers globally.