Examining the Climate Finance Gap for Small-Scale Agriculture

13 November 2020.  IFAD hosted a second online event as part of the “Recovery. Rebuilding. Resilience.” series, which shed light on how rural communities are facing, and often overcoming, the potentially devastating impacts of COVID-19 and other shocks to their health, productivity, and incomes. 

This event highlighted the needs of smallholder farmers in the face of climate change, as well as the barriers hindering them from accessing much-needed climate finance. 

The virtual event also presented key findings from a new joint report by IFAD and the Climate Policy Initiative tracking climate finance flows down to the level of small-scale producers to uncover currently underserved groups. 

Examining the Climate Finance Gap forSmall-Scale Agriculture. November 2020. 60 pages.

"Small-scale agricultural producers can only seize global climate finance opportunities, however, if they have adequate access to land, markets, capacity support, and finance."

• Dr. David Nabarro, co-director at Imperial College Institute of Global Health Innovation, strategic director of 4SD, and special envoy to the World Health Organization director-general on COVID-19. 
• Dr. Barbara Buchner, executive director, CPI. 
• Meike van Ginneken, associate vice president, strategy and knowledge department, IFAD. 
• Ruth Oniang'o, founder and leader of the Rural Outreach Programme and editor-in-chief of Africa Journal of Food, Nutrition and Development. 
• Michelle Winthrop, director of policy, Irish aid, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ireland. 
• [Moderator] Raj Kumar, president and editor-in-chief, Devex.