{"id":22343,"date":"2016-11-09T21:17:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T21:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=22343"},"modified":"2016-11-09T21:17:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T21:17:41","slug":"report-small-farmers-can-earn-big-returns-by-investing-in-climate-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/11\/report-small-farmers-can-earn-big-returns-by-investing-in-climate-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Small farmers can earn big returns by investing in climate adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD<\/a>) today issued a new report which shows that for every dollar invested through its Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP), farmers could earn a return of between $1.40 and $2.60 over a 20 year period by applying climate change adaptation practices.<\/p>\n

The report, The Economics Advantage: Assessing the value of climate change actions in agriculture<\/a>, was presented today at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Climate Conference in Marrakech, known by the shorthand \u2018COP 22<\/a>\u2019 and is a result of cooperation between IFAD and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a strong economic case to be made for investing in agriculture for future food security, even under changing climate conditions,\u201d said IFAD\u2019s Director of Environment and Climate, Margarita Astralaga. \u201cIFAD\u2019s ASAP, the world\u2019s largest programme for smallholder farmers\u2019 adaptation, shows that where investments are made that help farmers adapt to climate change the returned financial benefit to farmers is much, much higher.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to findings, regions where IFAD invests in adaptation, the rate of return for farmers and the government agencies comes in 15 to 35 per cent higher, even despite the cost of borrowing.<\/p>\n

CCAFS\u2019s Head of Research, Sonja Vermeulen stressed the importance of agriculture for adaptation and mitigation, \u2018saying<\/a>: \u201cAgriculture is especially sensitive to climate change, as well as accounting for significant emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, there is a strong economic rationale for supporting actions on agriculture confirmed by the majority of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cClimate change proposals on agriculture need to be supported by credible economic and financial proposals in order to unleash significant public and private finance,\u201d stated Ms. Astralaga. \u201cThe purpose of this report is to share emerging information to support the use of clear and concise economic data that shows when, where and how IFAD investments bring financial returns to the communities we work with,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Reports have also shown that positive economic returns can be implemented in practices to build adaptive capacity and reduce emissions intensity such as innovative rice cropping in Viet Nam, or switching from growing coffee to cocoa in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, an additional set of non-technical mitigation and adaptation intervention are equally important but more difficult to implement, including capacity building, institutional strengthening, access to value chains and research.<\/p>\n

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Via Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ News Centre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IFAD report shows that for every dollar invested through its Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP), farmers could earn a return of between $1.40 and $2.60 over a 20 year period by applying climate change adaptation practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,16,4],"tags":[114,144,369,4721,943,4853],"class_list":["post-22343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-zero-hunger","category-economic-growth","category-news","tag-agriculture","tag-climate-change","tag-economic-growth","tag-food","tag-ifad","tag-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}