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“By catalyzing innovation in climate-smart agriculture, we can reduce harmful emissions and sequester carbon in the sector, sustainably increase productivity to feed a growing global population, and support farmers on the frontlines in building resilience and adapting to the impacts of climate change.”

“The climate crisis threatens to disrupt food systems around the globe, exacerbate food insecurity and negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods. We must invest in innovative, science-based solutions to help agriculture mitigate and adapt to climate change – and that’s what AIM for Climate is all about.”

Working to enable solutions at the intersection of agriculture and climate

The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate) is a joint initiative by the United States and the United Arab Emirates. AIM for Climate unites global participants to significantly increase investment in and support for climate-smart agriculture and food systems innovation over five years (2021 – 2025), addressing both climate change and global hunger.

Raising global ambition and driving rapid and transformative climate action worldwide – including by enabling science-based and data-driven decision and policy-making – will be key. In this way, AIM for Climate partners are creating a surge of solutions, enabling a quantum leap in climate-smart agriculture and food systems innovation. Together, we are empowering agriculture and food systems to be part of the solution to address the climate crisis, delivering climate action and co-benefits for a sustainable future.

In just three years, AIM for Climate and its growing network of more than 600 partners, including 56 countries, have mobilized $17 billion in increased investment in climate-smart agriculture and food systems innovation over a 2020 baseline.

Despite tremendous progress, our work is not done. AIM for Climate is a five-year initiative and now, in its fourth year, it is critical for partners to work together toward institutionalizing progress. AIM for Climate partners are encouraged to harness the momentum of these successes by unlocking innovation — the key to long-lasting change. Our goal is not just to sustain progress but also to accelerate it toward a food-secure future, where climate change no longer poses an existential threat. Together, we can move farther, faster.

Diversity, gender equity, and inclusion are critical to the success of the mission. AIM for Climate recognizes the wide range of participants necessary to achieve its goal and seeks to draw on diverse knowledge, experiences, and cultures.

Participation in AIM for Climate is voluntary and free of charge.

AIM for Climate will work to:

AIM for Climate focuses on increasing and accelerating investment in, and/or other support for, climate-smart agricultural innovation in the areas of:

An Innovation Sprint is an increase in aggregate self-financed investment from non-government partners to achieve an outcome/output in agriculture innovation for climate-smart agriculture and food systems to be completed in an expedited timeframe.

Innovation Sprints should support climate-smart agriculture innovation by increasing agriculture productivity while adapting and building resilience to climate change and/or reducing/removing greenhouse gas emissions. Components of innovation sprints may include, inter alia: increasing agricultural productivity; adapting and building resilience and/or reducing or removing greenhouse gas emissions.

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There are three avenues for participation in the AIM for Climate coalition:

Government participants who announce an increase in aggregate public investment in agricultural innovation for climate-smart agriculture and food systems over the next five years (). Responsibility, control, and oversight of investments will remain with the participant. Government Partners also support the objectives of AIM for Climate and intend to participate in its activities.

Non-government participants who announce an increase in aggregate self-financed investment in agricultural innovation for climate-smart agriculture and food systems over the next five years () to enable investment for bold ideas to foster innovation in an expedited timeframe. Innovation Sprint Partners are encouraged to facilitate innovation challenges with participation by other AIM for Climate participants, including governments. Responsibility, control, and oversight of investments will remain with the participant unless the participant determines otherwise. Announced new investments should avoid double counting (e.g., double counting of the same investments by Government and Innovation Sprint Partners).

Kindly only submit your request to become an Innovation Sprint Partner if you have already submitted an Innovation Sprint proposal and have been notified of its acceptance. 

Non-government participants, such as private research, education and extension institutions and international organizations, companies, or other NGOs who support the objectives of AIM for Climate, intend to participate in its activities, and announce an intent to amplify agricultural innovation through: insight sharing, innovation collaboration, coordination, demonstration and deployment.

Share best practices to increase the equitable diffusion of – and positive returns to – agricultural innovation efforts focused on adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change.

Launch flexible, inclusive, and targeted innovation collaboration focused on specific innovation areas, guided by the values of openness, transparency, reciprocity, and merit-based competition.

Collaborate to increase mutual and equitable capacity for agricultural innovation focused on climate change, including efforts to enhance the efficacy and resourcing of existing innovation institutions.

Facilitate sharing of information and partnerships among national-level government agricultural innovation and academic research institutions; international research centers, institutions, and laboratory networks; and national agricultural research extension systems.