Presentation
Climate change, soil degradation, biodiversity loss and food insecurity are accelerating global crises. Every year, 100 million hectares of agricultural land disappear, threatening 1.3 billion people. As COP30 has just begun in Belém, the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), alongside IDDRI, CIRAD and the 4P1000 initiative, is publishing the Policy Brief Co-creating synergies through indigenous people and local communities' action on climate, land and food with the objective to highlight the central role of indigenous peoples and local communities in responding to climate, environmental and food challenges.
Recommendations
- Governance: Implement inclusive governance structures at all levels–international, national and local–to coordinate and integrate actions on climate, biodiversity and land use, fully involving non-state actors to ensure sustainable policies that are adapted to local contexts.
- Financing: Coordinate and redirect financing (climate, biodiversity, land restoration) by increasing flows to nature-based solutions and supporting local initiatives co-designed with communities, while reforming agricultural subsidies to align public financing with environmental and sustainability objectives.
- Knowledge sharing: share and co-create knowledge between scientists, local actors, indigenous communities and civil society in order to jointly develop innovative solutions to complex sustainability challenges.
- Monitoring: local solutions must be based on sound science and co-constructed with communities, using participatory monitoring and evaluation systems that ensure synergies, adaptive management and transparency of results.
- The science-policy interface: connecting local, national and global expertise, promoting integrated and inclusive approaches, and supporting the co-design of knowledge and the implementation of public policies.
