Family Farmers for Climate Action is an alliance of farmer organisations

representing over 50 million producers across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific. Small-scale family farmers produce a third of the world’s food and are on the front line of the climate crisis, but receive just 0.3% of international climate finance to adapt. Family farmers are pioneering the solutions needed to tackle the climate, nature and food crisis yet are sidelined by governments and overlooked by funders.

Our mission

We are calling on governments and funders – public and private – to recognise the key role family farmers play in building more sustainable and climate resilient food systems.

No access to climate finance: Decades of underinvestment and an unfair global food system, mean millions of family farmers lack the infrastructure, technology and resources needed to adapt to an increasingly erratic and extreme climate.

Just a fifth (19%) of international public climate finance for agriculture, forestry and fishing was used to support sustainable and resilient agricultural practices in 2021. This amounts to US$1.6 billion - a fraction of the estimated US$300-350 billion a year that is needed.

More climate finance is needed to adapt the food system, and more of this needs to go directly to family farmer organisations where it will have the most impact.
We need more grants, fewer loans and lower interest rates, plus longer-term investments that are tailored to our needs as farmers, not to donor priorities.

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