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 employs several key strategies, including regenerative and climate-smart farming, green financing, and carbon trading. Regenerative and climate-smart farming promotes agroforestry within coffee systems, driven by the need for sustainable agricultural landscapes. Small-scale agriculture often faces structural barriers to green financing, including inadequate delivery instruments and a low-risk appetite among climate finance providers, and the project seeks to address these barriers. Finally, on carbon trading, the innovative approach allows smallholder farmers to receive payments for climate-smart practices, such as agroforestry, through the international carbon market.