Smallholder farmers make up an incredibly important piece of the global food system — the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, or FAO, estimates that around 35% of the world’s food comes from farms that span 10 hectares or fewer.
But these farmers receive only 0.3% of global climate funding, and they’re consistently the ones hit hardest by climate shocks such as floods and droughts.
This disparity was front and center at Devex’s Climate + summit last week on the sidelines at the United Nations’ COP 28 climate conference in Dubai. In many cases, experts said, closing the gap between farmers and solutions doesn’t need to be complicated or expensive.
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Lauren Evans@laurenfaceevans
Lauren Evans was formerly an Assistant Editor/Senior Associate in the Office of the President at Devex. As a journalist, she covers international development and humanitarian action with a focus on climate and gender. Her work has appeared in outlets like Foreign Policy, Wired UK, Smithsonian Magazine and others, and she’s reported internationally throughout East Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America.
