Nature-Positive Agrifood Systems Toolkit: Primer

Hundreds of tools, resources, frameworks, and success stories already exist to support sustainable food systems. Yet for many practitioners and policymakers, this landscape may be difficult to navigate to identify the most relevant, credible, or actionable resources for their national context.

The new Nature-Positive Agrifood Systems Toolkit fills this gap by serving as a practical entry point and helping users to quickly find and apply the right resources to design and implement effective food systems strategies. The toolkit provides policymakers and practitioners with practical resources to drive agriculture and food systems transformation that delivers for people, nature, and climate – supporting them in navigating the path from commitment to implementation. This primer explains what is inside the toolkit and how to engage with it.

Earlier versions of the toolkit were launched ahead of COP28 and COP29. The 2025 edition, released ahead of COP30, expands both its scope and functionality, now presented in an interactive online platform. Launching in beta version, the toolkit will continue to evolve with new resources, case studies, and examples added over time.

By connecting practitioners, policymakers, and partners to the tools and guidance they need, the toolkit aims to accelerate food systems transformation worldwide by bridging the gap between knowledge and action.

An ongoing collaborative effort

The toolkit and the primer are the results of collaboration among a network of partners including WWF, Climate Focus, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT, and the NDC Partnership. The 2025 edition received financial support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Several individuals from GIZ, the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI), Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina, The Global FoodBanking Network, The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat, among others, contributed to the toolkit by submitting resources for inclusion.

Read the primer, and explore the toolkit: https://agrifood-systems-toolkit.panda.org