Early warning systems and mechanisms for sharing information along the food value chain will be critical to the success of climate-smart agricultural development. The broad coalition of nongovernmental organizations and private corporations which signed the New York Declaration on Forests, in 2014, is one example of the catalytic role public finance can play. The coalition seeks to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases by between 4.5 and 8.8 Gt annually (Conway et al, 2015).