CCAC Food & Nutrition Challenge 2025

📝 About CCAC Food & Nutrition Challenge

The CCAC Food & Nutrition Challenge 2025 aims to address super pollutant emissions from food systems globally. Food production and consumption contribute significantly to emissions of black carbon, methane, nitrous oxide, and HFCs, while also being impacted by climate change and air pollution.

Key issues include:

• Food wastage: Over one-third of food produced globally is lost or wasted, decomposing in landfills and negatively impacting human health, soil fertility, and biodiversity.
• Organic waste management: Robust systems are needed to capture organic waste for agricultural inputs, preserve soil health, and support food security.
• Bioeconomy approaches: Incorporating biodegradable waste to replace fossil-origin products and fuels.

The challenge seeks innovative cross-sector proposals to tackle these issues, improve food security, reduce greenhouse gases, and enhance resilience.

📅 Opportunity Details

• Date Published: July 25, 2025
• Application Deadline: August 06, 2025
• Category: Grants
• Sponsor Organisation: Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)

🌟 Benefits

• Funding: Eligible projects will receive financial support.

✅ Eligibility Criteria

General Requirements:

To be eligible for consideration, project proposals must:

• Be complete and relevant.
• Be submitted on time.
• Stay within the budget range set in the call for proposals.
• Be less than 24 months in duration.
• Comply with CCAC gender criteria.

Eligible Entities:

• Non-profit entities: NGOs, IGOs, and government entities.
• For-profit entities are not eligible for funding but can participate as collaborators or co-funders.

📋 CCAC Food & Nutrition Challenge Requirements

Proposals should:

1. Target at least two focus areas outlined below and demonstrate cross-sector approaches to reducing food loss and waste.
2. Be innovative, collaborative, and scalable.
3. Show GHG/super pollutant reductions and impacts using indicators.
4. Clearly outline the proposed approach/methodology.
5. Encourage engagement with sub-national, private sector, and other stakeholders.
6. Include co-funding or in-kind contributions from private sector stakeholders or other donor schemes.
7. Target activities in ODA-eligible countries.

🌍 Focus Areas

Proposals should address one or more of the following focus areas:

• Strengthen natural cycles: Improve nutrient and material flows between rural and urban systems, divert organic waste for better uses, and boost resilience through planning, infrastructure, and financial mechanisms.
• Advance agroecological practices: Preserve soils, improve food security, and enhance resilience through compost application, soil management, crop diversification, agroforestry, and integrating crop and livestock.
• Expand energy-efficient cold chains: Develop sustainable cold-chain services using low-GWP refrigerants to reduce food loss.
• Prevent food wastage: Redistribute edible food waste and support infrastructure investment at sub-national levels.
• Shape financial systems: Document GHG emission reductions transparently and create clear indicators for super pollutant emissions.

📅 Selection Process

Timeline:

1. Concept Note Evaluation:

   • Eligible concept notes will undergo preliminary evaluation within three weeks of submission.
   • Applicants may be contacted for follow-up information or clarifications.

2. Project Implementation Plan:

   • Successful applicants will develop a detailed plan and budget in consultation with the CCAC Secretariat within four weeks of submission.

3. Detailed Application Submission:

   • Applicants invited to Step 2 will have three weeks to submit a detailed application form and budget.

4. Full Proposal Review:

   • Proposals will be reviewed by sector experts, the CCAC Funding Task Team, and the CCAC Board.

5. Announcement:

   • Successful projects will be announced in Q4 2025.

📤 Application Process

Step 1:

1. Complete the Challenge Programme Concept Note (available here).
2. Fill out the Challenge Programme Google Form (available here).
3. Upload the Concept Note (in Word format) and additional documents to the Google Form.
4. Submit the Google Form to the CCAC Secretariat.

Step 2:

1. The CCAC Secretariat may request additional information or clarifications.
2. Successful applicants will be invited to submit a detailed project proposal and budget.
3. Full proposals will undergo in-depth review by the CCAC Secretariat and technical experts.

📅 Application Deadline

August 06, 2025

For more details, visit the CCAC Food & Nutrition Challenge Portal.

Apply for the challenge here.

• Funding will be provided for eligible projects.