Extreme weather, conflict, and trade disruptions are fueling hunger and displacement. Read the full document to explore integrated solutions that match the scale of these challenges.
2025 Shapes Tomorrow: Time to Build Climate-Resilient Food Systems
The climate crisis threatens global food security – but solutions exist. In 2025, key international forums will spotlight how inclusive, climate-resilient food systems can offer lasting solutions. WHH will be on the ground to share experiences and make the case for action.
The climate crisis is intensifying food insecurity and hunger across the globe. Extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, and storms are undermining agricultural productivity, pushing vulnerable communities closer to hunger and displacement. For example, climate-related shocks have already contributed to rising food prices and declining crop yields in many regions, creating a growing humanitarian emergency.
Solutions Are Within Reach — but They Must Be Holistic and Inclusive
Effectively tackling the climate crisis requires moving beyond reactive humanitarian responses towards anticipatory, risk-informed climate adaptation. The agricultural sector, as a cornerstone of livelihoods for millions, must be transformed through sustainable and climate-resilient practices that strengthen food security and reduce vulnerability to climate shocks.
Equally crucial is the urgent need to significantly scale up climate finance, ensuring that funding directly supports vulnerable populations – such as smallholder farmers, women, and marginalized groups – enabling them to build adaptive capacities tailored to their specific risks and contexts. It is crucial that climate funds are not only accessible, but ethically distributed – supporting local leadership and avoiding top-down imposition.
Achieving these goals demands a coherent and integrated approach that bridges development cooperation and humanitarian action. By enhancing local capacities and fostering inclusive governance, we can reduce vulnerability and build lasting resilience against the accelerating impacts of climate change.
Welthungerhilfe (WHH): Turning Commitment into Action
WHH is actively implementing these approaches by supporting climate-resilient agriculture projects, promoting sustainable water management, and advocating for inclusive climate finance. One example is the SUSTFARM+ project in collaboration with the Kenyatta National Farmers’ Cooperative and with ADS Western in Kenya, which empowers smallholder farmers through improved access to climate-smart farming techniques, capacity building, and cooperative marketing. This project strengthens farmers’ resilience to climate variability while enhancing their food security and livelihoods. Together with local communities we build adaptive capacities that meet their unique needs and strive for systemic change through political advocacy.
Key Climate Moments in 2025: Opportunities to Set the Course Right
2025 offers critical platforms for advancing climate adaptation and transformation where WHH will be present and vocal:
Climate Conference Bonn, 16–26 June 2025
World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB), Germany
These are the 62nd sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This key event prepares the ground for decisions to be taken at COP30 in Belém, Brazil in November and will be instrumental in shaping the global climate adaptation agenda.
We co-organize a side event with FAO and CIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development) on 19 June 15:00-16:15 that will gather experts to discuss how locally-led sustainable agrifood system transformation provides actionable solutions for improving quality and quantity of climate finance for the agrifood sector.
2nd Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa, 8–10 September 2025
The Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) is scheduled to take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from September 8–10, 2025. Building on the inaugural summit held in Nairobi in 2023, ACS2 aims to strengthen Africa's collective voice on climate finance and adaptation strategies ahead of COP30 .
COP30 Climate Conference in Belém, 10–21 November 2025
The 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) will convene in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. As the first COP held in the Amazon region, it aims to spotlight forest preservation, climate justice, and the acceleration of global climate finance commitments.
At these events, we will highlight the urgent need to scale up climate adaptation, especially for the most vulnerable.
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