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🥔 How a Tanzanian scientist is transforming potato farming Across Tanzania, weather patterns are becoming increasingly unpredictable, causing crop failures. That’s why Crescentia Mushobozi, a scientist from a potato-farming family, founded MbeguNzuriBiotech Farms ltd, to give farmers the climate resilient seeds they need to adapt and thrive. Using biotechnology, her team develops climate-adaptive potato varieties that perform in both hot and cold conditions. Farmers like Faraji Mruma, once facing repeated crop failures, are now harvesting six times more than before. Now scaling up to 70 tons of resilient seeds per season, Mbegu Nzuri is improving food security and creating new opportunities for young people across Tanzania. This is one of the ventures supported by the Adaptation & Resilience ClimAccelerator, delivered with Smart Lab under Climate KIC’s Adaptation Innovation Cluster, supported by Irish Aid. Together, we are connecting entrepreneurs, farmers, and communities to build climate resilience from the ground up. #FoodFutures #ClimateAdaptation #Sustainability #ClimAccelerator #ClimateInnovation #Agriculture #ResilientFoodSystems

From Europe to Latin America, November is full of opportunities to connect, collaborate, and accelerate climate action. This month, Climate KIC teams and partners are contributing to a range of events exploring how innovation, finance, and community-led change can drive systemic transformation, from regenerative food systems to city–industry collaboration. 📆 Swipe through to see what’s keeping us busy this month, and join us in shaping a climate-resilient, just future. #ClimateAction #Sustainability #ClimateInnovation #ClimateKIC #COP30

As global climate leaders gather in Brazil ahead of #COP30, our CEO Kirsten Dunlop is on the ground, engaging with mayors, regions, and partners driving transformation from the local level up.   From the COP30 Local Leaders Forum with C40 Cities and Under2 Coalition, Kirsten reflects on how cities and regions are bridging the gap between ambition and action, and what’s needed to accelerate real-world implementation: 🌍 bio-regional approaches that align with nature’s systems 🏙️ aggregated city demand that can shift markets 💸 capacity-building and climate literacy at every level 🧩 data collaboration for shared, equitable progress   ➡️ Read Kirsten’s reflections in full below.   #COP30 #ClimateAction #SystemInnovation #NetZeroCities #EUCitiesMission #EUAdaptationMission #ClimateLeadership 

🎙️ The latest episode of our How Could We? podcast is out now! 🇮🇪 What lessons in regenerative agriculture can we learn from Ireland? In this episode, host Anne-Sophie Clulow-Garrigou⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ interviews Michelle Donnelly, a farmer from Mulroy Meadow Farm based in Donegal, Ireland who is running a regenerative farm. Anne-Sophie also talks to Climate KIC’s Stewart Gee, who works on Climate KIC’s Irish Deep Demonstration, a project that aims to help Ireland achieve a climate-neutral food system by 2050. In this episode, Michelle and Stewart discuss: 💬 Why regenerative agriculture is so important 💬 The barriers and opportunities provided by regenerative agriculture 💬 The enabling conditions needed to scale up regenerative agriculture regionally and nationally #HowCouldWe #ClimateAction #FoodFutures #SustainableAgriculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #MulroyMeadowFarm

🌍 COP30 Brazil | Week 1 Highlights As COP30 Brazil begins next week in Belém, Climate KIC will take part in key sessions that explore how systems innovation, collaboration, and investment can accelerate climate action across regions and sectors, and close the implementation gap. From transforming cities and industries to building resilient food systems and financing systemic change, we’re proud to contribute to conversations shaping a just, climate-resilient future. 💬 Explore our first week of events and sessions — swipe through to see where we’ll be! Stay tuned: more sessions will be added soon. #COP30 #ClimateAction #ClimateKIC #SystemInnovation #GlobalMutirão #ClimateFinance

🌍 How can we feed 10 billion people fairly, without breaking the planet? The new EAT–Lancet Commission 2025 Report lays out a powerful roadmap: the Planetary Health Diet, a science-based framework for nourishing people while protecting our planet. By staying within planetary boundaries and addressing fairness and equity, the report shows how transforming our food systems could prevent up to 15 million premature deaths every year, while tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, and malnutrition together. As a member of the EAT Advisory Board, our CEO Kirsten Dunlop is proud to contribute to this global effort to make healthy and sustainable food the default, not the exception. ➡️ Read more about the new EAT–Lancet Report and what it means for systemic food transformation: https://lnkd.in/eTQykUPu #FoodFutures #PlanetaryHealthDiet #ClimateAction #Sustainability #FoodSystems #JustTransition #EATLancet

🌾 How can farms become clean-energy producers while staying productive and resilient?   In our latest #FoodFutures article, Laurène Lebelt and Stelios Dritsas share insights from the HarvRESt project, exploring six ways to integrate renewable energy into agriculture without compromising food production or biodiversity. From agrivoltaics and hybrid wind systems to circular biomass and geothermal innovation, the article shows how farmers, communities, and innovators are driving Europe’s green transition from the ground up, creating climate-resilient food systems powered by clean energy.   #RenewableEnergy #RegenerativeAgriculture #ClimateInnovation #SustainableFarming #EnergyTransition

🏙️ Strong Cities. Healthy Economy. Last week in Berlin, Climate KIC and partners launched a two-year city–industry dialogue process in Germany, marking a major milestone in connecting cities, businesses, and policymakers to co-create climate-neutral, competitive economies. Building on successful collaborations in Spain, Finland, and Poland, this initiative is part of a growing European movement to unite climate action and economic resilience, creating a network where cities and businesses can discover their shared needs and build solutions together. The Berlin kick-off on 23 October drew around 80 representatives from industry, cities, and federal and state governments, marking Germany’s entry into the Europe-wide initiative to reimagine competitiveness and climate neutrality. 🤝 In collaboration with ICLEI Europe, WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. 📖 Read more about the Berlin launch: https://lnkd.in/dNjnvKNx #ClimateNeutrality #NetZeroCities #EconomicResilience #SystemsInnovation #ClimateKIC

🚨 Final call for contributions!   Submissions for the European Carbon Farming Summit 2026 close this Friday, 31 October (EOD). Your ideas, projects, and insights shape the conversations that will define the future of carbon farming and regenerative agriculture in Europe.   Earlier this year, over 500 stakeholders came together in Dublin to explore how carbon farming can move from theory to practice. Organised by Climate KIC as part of the Project Credible consortium, the Summit has become a vital meeting place for Europe’s carbon farming community — connecting science, policy, and practice.   Now, as we prepare for next year’s summit in Padua, we’re calling on innovators, researchers, farmers, and policymakers to help shape the 2026 programme.    ➡️ Submit your contribution: https://lnkd.in/eSugXbEg 📆 Deadline: Friday, 31 October (EOD)   #CarbonFarmingSummit #RegenerativeAgriculture #CarbonFarming #FoodFutures #ClimateAction 

🎙️ The latest episode of our How Could We? podcast is out now! 🌾 How important is the role soil plays in our food systems? Kicking off our food-focused season, host Anne-Sophie Clulow-Garrigou⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ interviews Saskia Keesstra, a soil expert from Climate KIC, who has spent years working at the intersection of soil science, farming practices, and climate policy. In this episode, Saskia discusses:  💬 How healthy soil does much more than grow our food 💬 Why soil is one of our most powerful allies in the fight against climate change 💬 How farmers in our network are pioneering soil regeneration practices that could transform farming and our food system 💬 Her work on Project Credible and the upcoming European Carbon Farming Summit. 🍎 Listen now on Apple Podcasts - https://lnkd.in/ebFpKB-x 🟢 Listen now on Spotify - https://lnkd.in/e8KApp-R #HowCouldWe #Podcast #ClimateAction #FoodFutures #SustainableAgriculture