ClimBeR: Building Systemic Resilience against Climate Variability and Extremes

This initiative will transform the climate resilience of food, land and water systems in six low- and middle-income countries, ultimately increasing the resilience of smallholder production systems to withstand severe climate change impacts such as drought, flooding and high temperatures. This objective will be achieved through: Reducing risk to producers' livelihoods and in value chains by employing agricultural risk management, climate-smart innovations and digital information services to reduce the impact of variable weather and extreme events on smallholder farmers; Understanding climate security risks and identifying pathways towards climate resilient peace, including equitable access to natural resources; Ensure that policymakers have the evidence needed to develop urgently needed, holistic and context-specific adaptation policies and strategies, as well as to untangle the natural and social science complexities that hinder progress; Capacity building for policies that bring together local needs and available tools to enable governance for resilience, working across levels, scales and sectors, and engaging "change champions" who can advocate for local investment and the empowerment and inclusion of all; Scaling climate finance with innovative mechanisms that increase farmers' access to finance at the local level and help policymakers identify new opportunities at the national level; Ensuring social equity, because a climate-resilient and environmentally secure future will require policy that is sensitive to inclusion, ensuring that grassroots voices are heard and that women, youth and marginalized groups are included.