The paper analyzes how green finance can be aligned with agricultural policy to support sustainable agrifood systems amid global environmental pressures such as soil degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate variability, emphasizing the role of international frameworks like the Paris Agreement and the need to expand climate finance reaching agriculture; it highlights Latin America and the Caribbean’s advances in green taxonomies and programs such as Brasil’s ABC+, underscores the importance of strong monitoring, reporting, and verification systems, and reviews evidence showing that conditional agricultural credit can drive sustainable practices when institutions are strong and transaction costs are low, while noting persistent barriers especially for small producers; for Colombia, the paper identifies major environmental tensions, structural rural challenges, and progress in policies such as green growth, agroecology, and climate‑aligned finance, concluding that stronger intersectoral coordination, adaptive financial mechanisms, territorial approaches, and producer‑centered strategies are essential for enabling a just transition toward sustainable agricultural productivity.
