Climate Resilience Platform

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The Climate Resilience Platform is a free, open-source online tool to help bring climate change adaptation to the forefront of agricultural supply chain planning. It enables informed decision-making for agri-food and beverage businesses, industry platforms and policymakers, prodding early action to avoid the climate change induced yield losses that are inevitable in cases of inaction.

The platform helps companies know where and how to invest in climate resilient agriculture by combining crop-specific yield responses with climate hazards like drought, flood, heat and frost to provide actionable insights on opportunities to improve cropping system resilience to climate change. Through simple visualizations, it shows likely yield impacts under “do nothing” and “resilient” scenarios, helping procurement managers quickly grasp climate impact on crop production and identify mitigation actions.

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In what context is this tool useful?

Sustainability and procurement managers within the downstream agribusinesses will interpret the CRP results and recommendations as strategic input to their corporate planning processes to ensure the integration of climate risks and resilience into company-wide operations and long-term planning.

Results achieved

In 2024, Open Climate Resilience Platform was launched to the public. This version releases climate risk and resilience recommendations for 9 global crops to the public.

4 years after the first pilot implementation in Thailand. The platform identified that climate change would require potato farmers to drastically change the way they farm, and quantified the risk of in-action to PepsiCo and other off-takers in the region. These insights helped secure a US$3 million, 3-year partnership jointly funded by PepsiCo Thailand’s Agronomy team and The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to prioritize investments in better soil health and drip irrigation across the farm rotation. As a result, 3,000 farmers adopted climate-resilient practices, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20% per ton and increasing net farmer income by over 15%.

To increase the share of the food system that can benefit from this open-access climate resilience data, several organizations committed funding in 2024 to add more crops, including: Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, Bonsucro, PepsiCo and Rainforest Alliance.

Looking forward, CRP aims to scale its impact to support resilience of at least 9 million hectares of agricultural land and integrate 500,000 livelihoods into sustainable sourcing plans. Supported by agri-climate experts, the platform is set to become a global service, embedding climate resilience and long-term sustainability into agricultural supply chains worldwide.

Variations, scaling and adaptations

The current version of the CRP is a first Minimum Viable Product that was developed for 9 major food crops (canola, corn, grapes, oats, soybean, sugarcane, sugar beet, sunflower, wheat) in 50 countries. The project can expand by focusing on four key areas:

Increase Scale
Increase Access
Enable Action
Sustain

CRP is currently seeking partnerships and funding to scale by adding new climate-sensitive crops globally, enhancing data storage and processing to handle broader datasets, and extending climate projections further into the future. Access will increase by incorporating crop-specific data from diverse sources and building a network of agri-climate experts to validate risk assessments and adaptation recommendations. The platform will drive action by improving business cases for adaptation and highlighting critical landscapes for collective action. To ensure sustainability, partnerships with organizations who will integrate CRP into broader agricultural tools, while shared governance and funding will secure the platform’s future.