Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme
Launched by IFAD in 2012, the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) aims at improving by 2020 the resilience to climate change of 8 million people who are living in poor smallholder farming communities. It will do so by delivering grants ranging between USD 3 and 15 millions to IFAD projects, where resilience is fully integrated into the wider IFAD country programme or project. ASAP is also expected to deliver co-benefits in terms of carbon sequestration and reduction in net emissions from agriculture, and to reduce the pressure on conversion of forests to agriculture use.
| Land/Region | Thema | Periode | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
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Weltweit |
Klimawandel & Umwelt Landwirtschaft und Ernährungssicherheit Wasser
Umweltpolitik
Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung Landwirtschaftliche Wasserressourcen |
01.12.2013
- 31.12.2015 |
CHF 10'000'000
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- Improve land management and gender-sensitive climate-resilient agricultural practice and technologies
- Increased availability of water and efficency of water use for smallholder agriculture production and processing
- Increased human capacity to manage short- and long-term climate risks and reduce losses from weather related disasters
- Rural infrastructure made climate-resilient
- Knowledge on climate-smart smallholder agriculture documented and disseminated
- Internationaler Agrarentwicklungsfonds
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
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Sektor nach Kategorisierung des Entwicklungshilfeekomitees der OECD ALLGEMEINER UMWELTSCHUTZ
LANDWIRTSCHAFT
LANDWIRTSCHAFT
Sub-Sektor nach Kategorisierung des Entwicklungshilfeekomitees der OECD Politik und Verwaltung im Umweltschutzbereich
Förderung der Landwirtschaft
Landwirtschaftliche Wasser-Ressourcen
Querschnittsthemen Spezifisches Projekt zur Geschlechter-Gleichstellung.
Art der Unterstützung Öffentliche Entwicklungshilfe (ODA)
Zusammenarbeitsform Bilaterale Zusammenarbeit
Finanzierungsform Zuwendung ohne Rückzahlung
Unterstützungsform Gemeinschafts-/Sammelfinanzierungen
Gebundene/ungebundene Hilfe Ungebundene Hilfe
Projektnummer 7F08974
| Hintergrund |
500 million smallholder famers have to face the challenge of climate change, and the majority of them rely directly on climate-affected natural resources for their livelihoods. Even if over centuries smallholder farmers have developed mechanisms and accumulated knowledge to adapt to variations in the climate, they are today particularly exposed to climate change acceleration, and to the increased frequency and intensity of weather related disasters such as floods, droughts, biodiversity loss and water scarcity. Climate change is expected to decrease food security, and it is foreseen that by 2050, global yields are expected to be reduced by about 7%, and in some of the most food insecure regions, yield losses are likely to be 20% or more as soon as 2030. |
| Ziele |
The Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) pursues two goals: the first one is to put smallholder farmers on the climate finance map, by channelling earmarked climate and environment finance to smallholder famers, and demonstrating the value of investing climate finance in smallholder farmers to the Green Climate Fund and other climate initiatives. Second, ASAP aims at making climate change part of “IFAD’s DNA”, by integrating responses to climate change more systematically into IFAD’s core policies, programmes and activities, and by developing and scaling-up innovative and multiple-benefit adaptation approaches to landscape management and rural development. |
| Zielgruppen |
Smallholder farmers (8 million people), of whom 4 million should be women and girls. Indigenous people are also an important target group, because they face economic, social, political and cultural marginalization in the society in which they live, resulting in extreme poverty and vulnerability for a disproportionate number of them. |
| Mittelfristige Wirkungen |
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| Resultate |
Resultate von früheren Phasen: As ASAP started in September 2012, one project is at the stage of implementation in Mozambique (climate change adaptation in pro-poor value-chains), a project in Bangladesh has been approved by IFAD’s Executive Board in September 2013 (flood damage prevention and food production diversification), and another nine projects are under preparation for submission to the Executive Board (Viet Nam, Rwanda, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Yemen, Djibouti, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria and Mali). In addition to preparing the new ASAP projects, ASAP has enabled IFAD to define a knowledge management strategy for climate change adaptation, which incorporates the delivery of staff training, knowledge products and knowledge partnerships. |
| Verantwortliche Direktion/Bundesamt |
DEZA |
| Kreditbereich |
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit |
| Projektpartner |
Vertragspartner Organisation der Vereinten Nationen (UNO) |
| Budget | Laufende Phase Schweizer Beitrag CHF 10'000'000 Bereits ausgegebenes Schweizer Budget CHF 10'000'000 |
| Projektphasen |
Phase 1 01.12.2013 - 31.12.2015 (Completed) |