Future-Proof Agriculture and Food Value Chains

Introduction

WBCSD’s Agriculture & Food program supports its members to strengthen their performance, build value chain and landscape collaborations, and advocate for enabling policy environments.

Future-Proof Agriculture and Food Value Chains

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The Challenge

Agrifood value chains are facing increasing physical risks, which reduce crop yields, exacerbate food insecurity, and disrupt supply chains. At the same time, they contribute to pressing global challenges: agrifood systems cause approximately 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, three-quarters of biodiversity loss and are a leading cause of non-communicable disease.

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The Business Case

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

3.

The Solution

WBCSD and its members work together to scale regenerative agriculture, halt land-use change, and shift toward healthy and sustainable diets. Together, we are harmonizing measurement & accountability frameworks that businesses, investors, and policy-makers can use for decisions; taking landscape level action; and advocating for an enabling policy and finance environment. This will promote competitive, resilient agrifood value chains, delivering quality raw material and nutritious food for all by 2050.

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

Our Areas of Work

Healthy & Sustainable Diets

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

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.