08:00 – 09:00 ET | 14:00 –15:00 CEST

Preparing the agriculture sector and building the resilience of smallholder farmers will not be possible without significant increases in climate finance. Ensuring finance actually reaches the small-scale farmers, SMEs, and cooperatives on the frontlines of our food systems is essential.

How can donors and institutions like IFAD work together to multiply impact and really make a difference to the lives of smallholders? How can we ensure that impact actually reaches the household level? How can we leverage indigenous approaches and the potentials of women?

We will hear from those who know best – the farmers themselves.

This 2021 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) side-event will share lessons learned from IFAD’s Adaptation to Smallholder Agriculture Programme to highlight practical ways to support the resilience of the small-scale farmers around the world.

The world’s agriculture is facing multiple challenges, including an increasing demand for food to feed a growing population, diminishing yields, and degradation of natural resources and biodiversity as a result of human activity. In addition, the impacts of climate change are posing new threats to the world’s farmers and our food systems. A warming climate could cut crop yields by more than 25 per cent, while extreme weather events resulting from climate change can have devastating effects on farmers, their land, and their harvests.