COP 17: ACF members call for delivery on biodiversity targets through food systems

Ministers from member countries of the Alliance of Champions for Food Systems Transformation (ACF) launched a joint statement, ‘Food Systems for Nature: Closing the Implementation Gap’, together with the ACF’s biodiversity progress snapshot, at a COP 17 press conference in Yerevan on 28 October 2026.

According to Emma Williams, head of the ACF secretariat, the text asked for finance of better quality, easier to access and more predictable, and effectively reaching smallholders. At COP30, in a ministerial statement (19/11/2025), the ACF had put the share of climate finance reaching smallholders at 0.8%, and the share going to food systems at less than 10%.

Williams presented the new text as a response to the first global review of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which…