Country: Tanzania
Lead organisation: Solidaridad East and Central Africa Expertise Centre (Solidaridad)
Solidaridad recognises the urgent need for transformative adaptation practices to accelerate the adoption of climate-smart methods among small-scale farmers. To address this, a project is being implemented that aligns food system resilience with broader sustainability and ecosystem health objectives.
The project will employ several key strategies:
a) Regenerative and Climate-Smart Farming: Promote agroforestry within coffee systems, driven by the need for sustainable agricultural landscapes.
b) Green Financing: Small-scale agriculture often faces structural barriers to green financing, including inadequate delivery instruments and a low-risk appetite among climate finance providers.
c) Carbon Trading: The innovative approach allows smallholder farmers to receive payments for climate-smart practices, such as agroforestry, through the international carbon market. In partnership with Rabobank and the Acorn platform, Solidaridad aims to facilitate access for small-scale farmers to this marketplace, encouraging them to adopt sustainable agricultural practices and contribute to climate resilience.