The COP28 summit highlights food systems as a central theme, featuring a high-level ministerial meeting and an open “Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action”. Using data from the Global Trade Alert (GTA) and Essential Goods Initiative (EGI) datasets, Fiama Angeles Bonelli notes that, despite its significant contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, the agri-food sector is receiving diminished attention in the latest wave of climate change mitigation policies.