Opening: June 25, 2025
Closing: August 6, 2025
Estimated project cost: $2,000,000
Through the Food & Nutrition Challenge, the CCAC is seeking innovative cross-sector proposals that advance multiple focus areas outlined below:
- Strengthen the natural cycles, improving at scale nutrient and material flows between rural and urban systems, or within the rural or urban circular/bio economies diverting organic waste for better uses (e.g. landscaping, gardening/farming, bio-based products or others) and boosting resilience through (urban/rural) planning, development, infrastructure, logistics, financial mechanisms including certification and trade, while taking local circumstances and traditions into account;
- Advance agroecological practices and measures to preserve soils, environment and livelihoods improved food security, resilience to climate change/desertification and nutrition outcomes such as application of the soil conditioner compost/digestate at scale and soil management, crop diversification, intercropping, agroforestry, integrating crop and livestock;
- Expand along the entire value chain energy-efficient cold, sustainable and inclusive cold-chain services based on low- and ultra-low GWP refrigerants, HFC alternatives or other services that lead to a substantial reduction of food loss, including farmer access to post-harvest product storage and “first mile” infrastructure to transport produce.
- Support the prevention wastage of edible food or the redistribution of food waste, which is appropriate for consumption, including through infrastructure and greater investment at sub-national level. Proposals responding to this focus area should support the objectives of the COP29 Declaration on Reducing Methane from Organic Waste.
- Shape and strengthen financial systems to document GHG emission reductions in a transparent, accountable manner and to create/use clear, subject-related indicators for all GHG/super pollutant emissions sources to demonstrate a wider impact related to framework conditions or replicability or alike, with a clear methodology outlined in the project proposal.
Successful projects will be announced at COP30 alongside the possible launch of other related CCAC activities (including a possible CCAC Agriculture-focused Flagship, and some preliminary findings and discussions around the upcoming CCAC Integrated Assessment on Agriculture and Food).
What we are looking for
- Proposals should target at least 2 of the focus areas outlined above and show cross-sector approaches to reducing food loss & waste
- Proposals should target innovative approaches that are collaborative, scalable, and address more than one of the above-mentioned challenges
- Proposals should show GHG/super pollutant reductions and impacts of all non-GHG/super pollutants-related areas by indicators
- Proposals should clearly outline their proposed approach/methodology
- Engagement with sub-national, private sector and other stakeholders is encouraged
- Proposals from consortiums are encouraged including from local NGOs, government entities, and international organizations
- Proposals with co-funding or in-kind contributions are encouraged including from private sector stakeholders or other donor schemes than those of CCAC
- Proposals must target activities in ODA-eligible countries
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