Africa\u2019s smallholders represent the largest climate-vulnerable population on the planet. Their livelihood is entirely reliant on the environment, extremely vulnerable to even minor changes in temperature or rainfall. As a result, climate change threatens to have devastating humanitarian and ecological consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Building climate resilience for these farmers requires a massive improvement in Africa\u2019s agricultural value chains. Adopting climate-smart, high-value crops improves smallholder resilience; however, underfinanced value chains limit their access to the inputs and markets they need to shift away from staple crops that are vulnerable to climate change. Commercial banks see African agricultural SMEs as too risky, driving a USD 65 billion investment gap that prevents best-in-class SMEs from emerging and scaling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Smallholder Resilience Fund (SRF)<\/strong> is a blended investment fund and supporting venture studio that deploys synchronized investments and technical assistance across entire agricultural value chains of high-value, climate-smart crops to support smallholder farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n