Landscape of Climate Finance for Agrifood Systems 2025

The document provides the technical framework for tracking climate finance in agrifood systems, introducing an expanded taxonomy and a keyword tagging system to capture investments in non-traditional sectors. It distinguishes between 'comparable' and 'adjusted' flows to separate actual investment growth from improvements in data collection. Key data sources include the Global Landscape of Climate Finance (GLCF) and specific agrifood datasets, with a notable increase in finance attributed to energy systems supporting agrifood between 2019/20 and 2021/22.

• The report employs a comprehensive definition of agrifood systems that includes food and non-food agricultural products such as crops, livestock, fisheries, and forestry, covering the entire value chain from production to waste.
• The tracking framework categorizes climate finance into five primary sectors: AFOLU (Agriculture, Forestry, Other Land Use, and Fisheries), Food and Diets, Policy, National Budget Support and Capacity Building, Biodiversity, Land and Marine Ecosystems, and Agrifood-related sectors (non-AFOLU).
• A keyword tagging methodology was implemented to identify agrifood investments in non-AFOLU sectors, such as energy and transport, where projects are rarely labeled as 'agrifood'. This led to a substantial increase in the share of agrifood-related climate finance identified in non-AFOLU sectors, rising from 18% in 2019/20 to 48% in 2021/22.
• Climate finance flows to energy systems supporting agrifood systems grew more than ten-fold, increasing from USD 3.2 billion in 2019/20 to USD 37.7 billion in 2021/22.
• The 2021/22 data relies on 25 sources, with core GLCF data accounting for 90% (USD 85.3 billion) of total tracked finance and additional agrifood-specific sources contributing 10% (USD 9.6 billion).
• The methodology distinguishes between 'comparable flows', which use the 2023 methodology to show actual changes in investment, and 'adjusted flows', which result from new data sources and expanded keywords and thus reflect improvements in data coverage.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (2025). Landscape of Climate Finance for Agrifood Systems 2025. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Landscape-of-Climate-Finance-for-Agrifood-Systems-2025_Annexes.pdf

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. Landscape of Climate Finance for Agrifood Systems 2025. 2025. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Landscape-of-Climate-Finance-for-Agrifood-Systems-2025_Annexes.pdf.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Climate Policy Initiative |title=Landscape of Climate Finance for Agrifood Systems 2025 |date=May 2025 |url=https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Landscape-of-Climate-Finance-for-Agrifood-Systems-2025_Annexes.pdf |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiative2025landscape, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{Landscape of Climate Finance for Agrifood Systems 2025}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2025}, month = may, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Landscape-of-Climate-Finance-for-Agrifood-Systems-2025_Annexes.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }