The smallholder advantage: a new way to put climate finance to work
This report on IFAD’s response to climate change shows how investments in access to weather information, technology transfer and disaster preparedness are helping smallholder women and men to feed themselves and their families on a warming planet - whilst restoring degraded ecosystems and reducing agriculture's carbon footprint.
The report draws on experiences from IFAD's Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP), which was launched in 2012 to make climate finance work for smallholder farmers. ASAP blends climate finance from multiple donors with large-scale agricultural investment programmes that are financed by IFAD and its partners. It shows that agricultural investment programmes can provide platforms for climate action and that effective climate action can be about more than just technology.
In addition, examples presented from Mali and Viet Nam illustrate how smallholders can be supported to engage in local and national planning processes.