{"id":6788,"date":"2025-11-14T10:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panap.net\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:10:24","slug":"panap-flags-major-concerns-over-cop30-agriculture-text-a-step-back-for-climate-and-food-security","status":"publish","type":"panap_updates","link":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/updates\/panap-flags-major-concerns-over-cop30-agriculture-text-a-step-back-for-climate-and-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"PANAP flags major concerns over COP30 agriculture text: \u2018A step back for climate and food security\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEL\u00c9M, Brazil \u2014 PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) today expressed deep concern over the latest draft text of the Sharm el-Sheikh Joint Work on Implementation of Climate Action on Agriculture and Food Security (SJWA), released on November 13, during the COP30 climate talks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Malaysia-based regional network observed that although the SJWA draft mentioned agroecology and its potential to promote sustainable agriculture and food systems, as well as Indigenous knowledge and the urgency of adaptation finance, these points are overshadowed by a strong emphasis on corporate-driven, techno-centric approaches that risk pushing farmers, especially small-scale producers, further into harmful agricultural models and practices.<\/span><\/p>\n

The SJWA is the formal process under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with agriculture and food security.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PANAP Deputy Executive Director Arnold Padilla, who is attending the COP30 negotiations in Bel\u00e9m, northern Brazil, described the draft as \u201ca step back for climate and food security\u201d, noting that it promotes \u201cinnovation,\u201d precision agriculture, artificial intelligence, and large-scale technology transfer, while disregarding farmers\u2019 rights, data sovereignty, and the social and ecological risks associated with these technologies. \u201cThe SJWA text also endorses climate-smart agriculture, a framework widely criticized for enabling agribusiness greenwashing and reinforcing input-intensive models that worsen climate vulnerabilities rather than address them,\u201d Padilla added.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group said that the text\u2019s explicit endorsement of market-based approaches and carbon markets, including Article 6 offsets, as tools to supposedly reward farmers for so-called \u201cclimate-positive outcomes,\u201d is a major concern for advocates of climate justice, farmers\u2019 rights, and food sovereignty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCarbon offset schemes in agriculture have repeatedly resulted in land dispossession, farmer indebtedness, and the diversion of public finance toward private profit-making, while failing to deliver real or lasting mitigation benefits. Embedding carbon markets in the SJWA risks institutionalizing a mechanism that prioritizes commercial interests over climate action, food security, and human rights,\u201d said Padilla.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, the draft reinforces global trade frameworks such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), disregarding how these regimes undermine domestic food systems and restrict governments\u2019 ability to support small-scale food producers, safeguard biodiversity, and strengthen local markets.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAgroecology, recognized globally as a transformative pathway that advances climate resilience, biodiversity, and farmers\u2019 rights, is mentioned only in passing. The text fails to define people-led agroecology and advance it as a core solution. Without clear language, agroecology risks being diluted or treated as interchangeable with climate-smart agriculture and other corporate-driven concepts,\u201d Padilla said.<\/span><\/p>\n

PANAP emphasized that a just, people-centered transition in food and agriculture will never be achieved by deepening dependence on harmful technologies and profit-oriented market mechanisms or global value chains.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGame-changing reforms require a rights-based approach that puts farmers, Indigenous Peoples, and other small food producers at the center of climate action. As the climate crisis intensifies, governments cannot afford to adopt approaches that not only perpetuate but even reinforce the very systems driving ecological collapse, hunger, and inequality. A real solution is already in the hands of those who feed the world: communities of farmers and other small food producers practicing agroecology. It is time for the COP negotiators and the SJWA to finally recognize this before it is too late,\u201d stressed Padilla. ###<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEL\u00c9M, Brazil \u2014 PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) today expressed deep concern over the latest draft text of the Sharm el-Sheikh Joint Work on Implementation of Climate Action on Agriculture and Food Security (SJWA), released on November 13, during the COP30 climate talks. The Malaysia-based regional network observed that although the SJWA draft mentioned agroecology and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6789,"template":"","update_categories":[107],"class_list":["post-6788","panap_updates","type-panap_updates","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","update_categories-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_updates\/6788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_updates"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/panap_updates"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_updates\/6788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"update_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update_categories?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}