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The Max Planck Institute’s "Perspectives from the Global South" team released an Executive Report at COP30, showcasing regenerative agriculture and resilient food systems. The report highlights Indigenous knowledge, land restoration, and climate adaptation, urging policy makers to align with local realities. It includes insights from Global South communities and supports sustainable farming solutions.
The Perspectives from the Global South team (ECHOES) at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology has launched the Executive Report: Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Food Systems during a series of activities at COP30. The report was written in collaboration with scholars from across the world. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research from the Global South, including Andean, African and Asian case studies, to show examples of regenerative agriculture and resilient food systems that are not only sustainable but often rooted in longstanding local and Indigenous knowledge systems. It highlights:
● How traditional agricultural landscapes - terraces, agroforestry, communal water
systems, and soil-management practices - provide resilience in extreme environments.
● The importance of restoring degraded agricultural land and mobilizing finance for
regeneration, echoing the priorities reaffirmed during COP30.
● Policy recommendations for aligning global adaptation and restoration agendas with
local realities across the Global South.
● Evidence from Indigenous, rural, and smallholder communities across the Global South
to highlight pathways for climate adaptation, land restoration, and resilient food systems.
● Voices from local communities and Indigenous peoples through interviews and report
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Although Parties were unable to agree on formal language that would anchor a fossil fuel phase-out as an outcome of COP 30, the launch of the RAIZ Accelerator (Resilient Agriculture Investment for Net-Zero Land Degradation) signaled a major commitment to restoring degraded farmland through public–private collaboration. Supported by ten countries - Brazil, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay and the United Kingdom - RAIZ aims to scale land restoration, map degraded areas, and derisk private investment with support from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Positioned within COP30’s broader “implementation turn,” the ECHOES Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Food Systems report invites policymakers, practitioners, financiers, and community leaders to draw on Global South evidence and translate global commitments into on-the-ground climate solutions.
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Verónica Zuccarelli Freire
Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization
zuccarelli@gea.mpg.de
https://gs-anthropocene.org/executive-report-regenerative-agriculture-and-resili... - Download the report
https://www.youtube.com/@ArchGlobalSouth - Interviews & audiovisual materials
https://www.gea.mpg.de/149175/perspectives-from-the-global-south-to-navigate-the... - The Perspectives from the Global South team (ECHOES) at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Laura Furquim, Mariya Antonosyan and Freg Stokes representing the ECHOES team at Belém
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A photo from the exhibition “What the Invisible Dream – Cosmoperceptions of the Forest” at COP30
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Laura Furquim, Mariya Antonosyan and Freg Stokes representing the ECHOES team at Belém
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A photo from the exhibition “What the Invisible Dream – Cosmoperceptions of the Forest” at COP30
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