Future-Proof Agriculture and Food Value Chains

Introduction

Who we are?

The Challenge

Climate change poses physical risks to agrifood systems, from reducing crop yields and exacerbating food insecurity to disrupting supply chains. At the same time, our current agrifood system contributes to pressing global challenges. It causes approximately 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, three-quarters of biodiversity loss and is a leading cause of non-communicable disease.

The Business Case

Forward-thinking businesses understand that decarbonizing agrifood systems can drive value chain resilience, open innovation pathways, and promote long-term competitiveness. They are investing in the transition toward regenerative, equitable and nutritious agrifood systems.

The Solution

WBCSD and its members work together to scale regenerative agriculture, halt land-use change to protect nature, and shift toward healthier and more sustainable diets to drive climate impact, nature protection and value chain resilience. Together, we are developing and adopting best-practice metrics, standards and protocols to inform decision-making; taking action at the landscape level; and advocating for an enabling policy and finance environment.

1. The Challenge 2. The Business Case 3. The Solution

Related Areas

Healthy & Sustainable Diets

The Healthy and Sustainable Diets workstream drives food systems transformation by developing solutions that support healthy people on a healthy planet.

Emissions Reduction Accelerator

Accelerating Emissions Reduction and Generating Business Value through Value-Chain Transformation

Nature-based Solutions (NbS)

The UN defines Nature-based Solutions, or NbS, as “actions to protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use and manage natural or modified terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems”.

ONIX

ONIX is a digital public infrastructure to share ag data simply and securely via a unique identifier for all of the world’s farm fields.

Rice Methane Action Alliance (RMA)

Scaling Business-Driven Climate Action in Rice Agriculture . WBCSD has launched the Rice Methane Action Alliance (RMA) in 2025.

Landscape Accelerator: Brazil (LAB)

Regenerative landscapes offer a transformative pathway to align agricultural productivity with climate action, biodiversity conservation, and farmer prosperity.

One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B)

One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) is an international cross-sectoral, action-oriented business coalition on biodiversity with a specific focus on agriculture.

Soft Commodities Forum (SCF)

The Brazilian Cerrado is the world’s most biodiverse savannah and home to 5% of the planet’s animals and plants.

International Platform for Insetting (IPI)

Part of WBCSD, IPI is a collaborative platform for businesses implementing insetting projects that achieve positive impacts for the environment and communities along their value chains.