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IFAD / CLIMATE FINANCE SMALL FARMERS
STORY: IFAD / CLIMATE FINANCE SMALL FARMERS
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SOURCE: IFAD
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / KINYARWANDA / NATS
DATELINE: NOVEMBER 2020, ROME, ITALY / FILE
FILE – IFAD – 2020, ETHIOPIA
1.Aerial shot, Ethiopia tigray drought Ethiopia Farmer with mule
2.Wide shot, farmer with donkey
3.Aerial shot, drought stricken land
FILE – IFAD - VIETNAM
4. Wide shot, Vietnam Mekong delta area affected by rising sea levels and salty water.
5.Wide shot, shrimp/catfish fisherman with nets
FILE – IFAD – INDONESIA
6. Med shot, fish in water
7.Wide shot, Fisherman collecting fish
8.Wide shot, drying up rivers
FILE – IFAD – RWANDA
9.SOUNDBITE (Kinyarwanda) Grace Mukamana-Maize, Farmer:
“Honestly this changing weather really scares me. …The sun is scorching and clouds pass by quickly.”
10. Wide shot, hillside with smallholder farmers
11. Wide shot, rotten potatoes caused by too much rain
12. Wide shot, rotting corn caused by too much rain
13. Wide shot, carrying sacks on hillside
NOVEMBER 2020, ROME, ITALY
14.SOUNDBITE (English) Marguerita Astalaga, IFAD’s Environment, Climate and Social Inclusion Director:
“Climate finance directed at small- scale farmers results in the continued production of nutritious, affordable food for wider communities. This means that these are investments that help eradicate hunger, which are investments in global peace, wellbeing and stability.”
FILE – IFAD - VIETNAM
15. Wide shot, Mekong delta Farmer putting feed into water
16. Wide shot, fish in water/ fish treatment plant
Less than two per cent of climate finance goes to small-scale farmers in developing countries according a new report out today (12 Nov) by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Climate Policy Initiative (CPI).
The report by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) found that just 1.7 % of funds available to help tackle and adapt to climate change went to small-scale farmers in developing countries despite them being disproportionally vulnerable to climate change.
Higher temperatures and increased incidences of drought and flooding destroy crops and livestock and make it difficult for the farmers working on the worlds estimated 500 million small farms to continue to feed their communities and earn a living. As these farmers produce 50 per cent of the world’s food calories, if they cannot keep producing food, global hunger will inevitably rise.
SOUNDBITE (Kinyarwanda) Grace Mukamana-Maize, Farmer:
“Honestly this changing weather really scares me. …The sun is scorching and clouds pass by quickly.”
The Examining the Climate Finance Gap for Small-Scale Agriculture report found that climate change financing surpassed half a trillion US dollars for the first time in 2017 and 2018, but only $10 billions of this was earmarked smallholder farmers.
IFAD is calling for more climate investment to be directed at this vulnerable group, which will not just benefit the farmers, but the global community as a whole.
SOUNDBITE (English) Marguerita Astalaga, IFAD’s Environment, Climate and Social Inclusion Director:
“Climate finance directed at small- scale farmers results in the continued production of nutritious, affordable food for wider communities. This means that these are investments that help eradicate hunger, which are investments in global peace, wellbeing and stability.”
IFAD’s Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP), is the largest global climate adaptation programme for smallholder farmers, which has already channeled more than $300 million to more than 5 million farmers in 41 countries.
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