The event will foster a high-level multi-stakeholder dialogue to discuss challenges and opportunities in Africa to scale up climate finance that effectively reaches small-scale farmers, women, youth, and small and medium-scale enterprises. Two keynote presentations will be followed by a moderated panel discussion bringing together diverse perspectives.

The event will end with a call for action to build a roadmap for more and better coordinated investments for food systems’ adaptation in Africa, targeting relevant policy processes such as: the Climate Finance Delivery Plan(s); the UN Food System Summit’s national pathways (including in the case of Africa the post-Malabo Agenda as an opportunity for integrating climate and food systems transformation plans and targets); the G7 and G20 2024 Presidencies; and coordinated international TA mechanisms for national food systems and climate plans in Africa.