Grants and Contributions

The primary goal of the Climate Resilient Smallholders Programme would be to significantly increase smallholder’s resilience and adaptation to climate change, demonstrating Canada's leadership and commitment to sustainable development and climate justice for the poorest and most vulnerable. The objectives would be to 1) Strengthen the environmental sustainability and climate resilience of poor rural people’s economic activities; 2) Increase poor rural people’s productive capacities; and 3) Increase poor rural people’s benefits from market participation.

The Private Sector Financing Programme (PSFP) aims to support rural people to overcome poverty and achieve food security by supporting sustainable, and resilient livelihoods. The PSFP focuses on catalyzing greater private sector investments to support and benefit small producers and rural micro, small and medium enterprises in local agri-food systems. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) manages the PSFP .

Project activities include: (1) addressing bottlenecks in underserved value chains; (2) increasing market participation through small producers’ aggregation (3) creating more resilient value chains (4) promoting the adoption of digital innovations that improve value chain efficiency, transparency, sustainability, and resilience.

This project will support IFAD’s full environmental and climate mainstreaming agenda. Canada’s financial support to IFAD will substantiate IFAD 12th and 13th replenishment resources and be deployed via IFAD’s Performance-Based Allocation System, which includes climate dimensions as a way to direct allocation of resources to countries in highly vulnerable situations. It will contribute to increasing the programming and geographic flexibility of IFAD’s climate work to reach and benefit all Member States, while also being carefully targeted to reach the poorest and most vulnerable people in countries most affected by climate change.

IFAD provides grants and low-interest loans to developing countries to support programmes and projects that promote agricultural growth and inclusive rural transformation, with a focus on helping poor rural people improve their production and productivity, build their capacity, connect to markets and services so they can grow more, earn more, and become more resilient. It targets the extreme poor and food-insecure in rural areas, with special attention to women, youth and indigenous peoples as key beneficiaries, but also as full partners.

This project represents an additional loan of $190 million to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for climate-smart agriculture in developing countries. This contribution supports IFAD’s full environmental and climate mainstreaming agenda whose overarching goal is to strengthen the environmental sustainability and climate resilience of rural people to overcome poverty and achieve food security. The purposes of this loan are: (1) to support IFAD’s provision of loans to eligible Member States in line with IFAD’s commitment to ensure that its Programme of Loans and Grants is climate-focused; and (2) to support gender mainstreaming and gender-transformative projects.
Project activities include: (1) expanding IFAD’s support to smallholder farmers, particularly women; and (2) promoting farming practices adapted to climate change and adoption of technologies and practices which help reduce the carbon footprint from agricultural systems. This project enables poor populations to adapt to the effects of climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This project aims to improve the financial inclusion of the rural poor and of organizations and enterprises (especially female) excluded from the mainstream financial system in order to increase their resilience to climatic, social and economic shocks. The project also aims to promote a sustainable transformation of agricultural value chains and economic partnership between actors in the agricultural sector, including women and youth, producers’ organizations, and small and medium agricultural enterprises.

Project activities include 1) promotion of adapted agricultural financial services to small producers, including products that specifically meet women's needs; 2) digitalization of financial services; 3) provision of financial education and support to various target groups to facilitate access to loans; 4) promotion of gender equality and inclusion among organizations and poor populations; 5) provision of technical assistance to the Cellule de contrôle, the Centre de promotion et d’appui and to the Association professionnelle des systèmes financiers décentralisés; 6) strengthening the organizational capacities of producer organizations through training on organization, governance and the animation of a collective structure.

The project aims to reach 400,000 direct beneficiaries (50% of whom are women and 50% of whom are young people aged 18 to 40) in the regions of Kayes, Koulikoro, Mopti, Ségou and Sikasso.

This project represents Canada’s 150-million-dollar unconditional repayable contribution (URC) – a loan – to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for climate finance that is aimed at supporting climate-smart agriculture in developing countries. This contribution supports IFAD’s full environmental and climate mainstreaming agenda whose overarching goal is to strengthen the environmental sustainability and climate resilience of rural people to overcome poverty and achieve food security. The purposes of this loan are: (1) to support IFAD’s provision of loans to eligible Member States in line with IFAD’s commitment to ensure that its Programme of Loans and Grants is climate-focused; and (2) to support gender mainstreaming and gender-transformative projects.
Project activities include: (1) expanding IFAD’s support to smallholder farmers, particularly women; and (2) promoting farming practices adapted to climate change and adoption of technologies and practices which help reduce the carbon footprint from agricultural systems. This project is designed to enable poor populations to adapt to the effects of climate change, as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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