At the end of 2025, the World Weather Attribution (WWA) team, which analyzes the causal relationship between extreme weather events and climate change, published a report looking back at 2025 and sounding the alarm about the growing risk of extreme weather events taking many lives, destroying local communities, and having a devastating impact on agricultural production in a warming world.

2025 was a historic year of change in international development, and the trend toward transforming the global food system continued unabated. JIRCAS also demonstrated its commitment through side events at the UN Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Meeting and JIRCAS International Symposium.

Regeneration has become a buzzword in sustainability in recent years, and is being mentioned in the agricultural field as well. A paper published in the journal Ambio concludes that resilience thinking focuses on mechanisms that help systems weather difficult times, while regeneration emphasizes building inherently healthy systems capable of continuous regeneration. The paper concludes that these are complementary concepts in sustainability science.

At the end of November, a cyclone struck Sri Lanka, as well as Indonesia, Malaysia, and southern Thailand, bringing extreme rainfall and causing significant human and property damage. World Weather Attribution (WWA), which analyzes the causal relationship between extreme events and climate change, noted that rising global average surface temperatures, high sea surface temperatures, and the ongoing La Niña and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) natural variability patterns may have also influenced the heavy rainfall, while rapid urbanization and dense populations and infrastructure may have increased exposure to flooding.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)'s 2025 report, "The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security," published every two years, warns that climate-related disasters are causing significant losses in water availability, soil health, and agricultural productivity. It emphasizes the need for integrated water resource management and the expansion of digital solutions to predict, mitigate, and manage risks as a foundation for resilience.

Achieving both nutrition and climate resilience requires interdisciplinary, participatory action research focused on systems change. An editorial published in Nature Food proposes the concept of "nourishing crops," promoting participatory research in sub-Saharan Africa, respecting local needs and ownership, and focusing on opportunity crops.

The Global Environment Outlook, Seventh Edition: A Future We Choose (GEO-7), released at the Seventh United Nations Environment Assembly held in Nairobi on December 9, 2025, found that investing in planetary health—including stabilizing the climate, conserving nature and land, and addressing pollution issues—could increase global GDP by trillions of dollars, save millions of lives, and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and hunger.

On November 28, 2025, the official website of the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, which was established within the FAO as a follow-up mechanism of the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), published an online article introducing JIRCAS and the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) as "Japan's Innovation Engine" driving Japan-originated agricultural research innovations.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released its World Food Price Trends report on December 4. The average for November 2025 was 125.1 points, down 1.2% from the revised October figure of 126.6 points, marking the third consecutive month of decline. Declines in the price indexes for dairy products, meat, sugar, and vegetable oils outweighed the increase in the cereal index. Overall, the price index remained 2.1% below its November 2024 level and 21.9% below its peak in March 2022.