• COP29 saw existing food pavilions join forces to create the Action On Food Hub, which offered an inclusive space for dialogues, collaboration and partnerships with stakeholders across the food system.
• The Action on Food Hub will return to COP30 to platform marginalised voices and advocate for greater ambition to transform food systems, with a group of leading partner organisations.
• Applications are now open for partners, sponsors and event organisers to join the Action on Food community ahead of COP30.

On the opening day of the Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB62), the Action on Food Hub has announced that it will return for COP30 in Brazil, to actively engage with the international climate negotiations and support the development of policy outcomes aimed at transitioning to healthier, sustainable, just and resilient food systems for all. 

 Looking towards Belém, ten years on since Paris, pavilions such as the Action on Food Hub will be key to ensuring diplomacy is held to account. As decisions affecting the integrity of a just transition are discussed by policy-makers, forging civil society dialogue will be crucial to ensuring local realities are reflected. The Action on Food Hub will facilitate this at COP30, helping to deliver better outcomes for food systems by strengthening transparency, building alliances and ensuring inclusivity. 

 At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Action on Food Hub united food pavilions for the first time – including the Food Systems Pavilion and the Food4Climate Pavilion. By joining forces, the food community set out to create an inclusive space for conversation, collaboration and partnerships where less-represented voices could connect with stakeholders from the entire food system. Across a dedicated plenary space, roundtable area and policy zone, farmers and Indigenous communities fed into negotiations, helping to shape global progress on agrifood systems.

 Demanding action

 COP29 saw 93 organisations partner with the Action on Food Hub to run the pavilion – including businesses, philanthropies, foundations, charities, coalitions and think tanks. On the ground, partner organisations ensured important messages were embedded into conversations – the Global Alliance on the Future of Food urged governments to put food systems transformation at the centre of climate funding, while ProVeg's FoodSystemData exposed how country emissions are linked to food chains.

 At COP29, the Action on Food Hub also partnered with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and the wider food systems community to amplify the Food Systems Call to Action.

Over 300 food systems actors, including farmers, Indigenous Peoples, businesses, financial institutions and civil society, united behind this urgent call to safeguard food systems and build climate resilience by 2030 – with four key asks:

• Scale and re-orientate all sources of finance to incentivise and fund resilient, sustainable, and equitable food systems.
• Strengthen and implement existing global goals and action plans, strategies, and policies at all levels, and accountability frameworks.
• Support farmers, Indigenous Peoples and local communities and meaningfully include them in policy-making and decision-making processes.
• Spotlight food systems in the Rio Convention Summits.

 At COP30, the Action on Food Hub will serve as a crucial platform for hundreds of food system actors to have their voices heard, helping to ensure a just, nutritious, sustainable and resilient food transition for all.

 So far, confirmed partners for COP30 include: Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Coalition of Action for Soil Health (CA4SH), Tetra Pak, Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV), Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). 

 Call open for expressions of interest

 The Action on Food Hub is now accepting expressions of interest from potential partners, sponsors and event organisers to join its community ahead of COP30.

 Expressions of interest should be submitted here: Action on Food Hub 

 Dr Lucy Wallace, Director of Global Relationships, EIT Food, said: 

"COP30 will be a make or break point for global climate action, and we will only see meaningful outcomes if food systems are at the heart of climate negotiations. We cannot achieve this by operating in silos; we must embrace the diversity of our movement and join forces to advocate strongly and urgently for the food systems of tomorrow.

 "We hope that the Action on Food Hub can once again offer a space for constructive dialogue and to facilitate new and stronger partnerships, so that the food systems community can continue the momentum from COP29, through to COP30 and beyond."

 Diane Sibanda, Botswana Farmers Association, said:

"Smallholder farmers produce most of our communiies' food - putting them at the forefront of climate breakdown and its impacts on their livelihoods, incomes and environment. 

 They are stewards of the land, but when it comes to policy, they don't have an equal place at the negotiating table. Looking to COP30, we need to ensure their voices are heard and their experience valued in shaping the policies that directly affect them. The Action on Food Hub will be central to this in Belém - giving the community a platform to advocate for their interests and hold governments to account."

 Harko Koster, Global Lead - Climate and Food Systems, SNV (Partner of Action on Food Hub), said:

"As climate risks intensify and COP30 will highlight the need for tangible systemic change, connecting governance, finance, and implementation is more essential than ever - shifting food systems decision-making closer to where change is already underway, often in fragile or under-resourced regions. 

 Action on Food brings a needed emphasis on aligning global support with locally defined priorities. SNV contributes by working with local actors to strengthen context-driven approaches and creating linkages with the systems and structures needed to sustain them."

 Jennifer Chow, Senior Director, Climate-Resilient Food Systems, Environmental Defense Fund (Partner of Action on Food), said:

"EDF is grateful to be part of the founding group that only 4 years ago helped to connect the agrifood system and climate community in a meaningful way. Today, we need to embrace every tool in the toolbox. Each year is more critical than the last, and the Action on Food Hub will continue to help create common ground."

 Eija Hietavuo, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Tetra Pak (Partner of Action on Food Hub), said:

"Tetra Pak is delighted to be an official partner of the Action on Food Hub at COP30 in Belém. Food system transformation is not only necessary, it is achievable. The Action on Food Hub will help spread the word on the solutions that are available today to decarbonise food systems, reduce food loss and waste, and strengthen food security."