Event Title: Private Sector-oriented Climate-Smart Agriculture for Smallholder Farmer Resilience: The CRAFT Experience

Event Description

The Climate Resilient Agribusiness for Tomorrow (CRAFT) project, led by SNV and funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is pleased to invite you to a pivotal learning event. The CRAFT project, implemented in partnership with Wageningen University and Research, Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa, Agriterra, and Rabo Partnerships, has been instrumental in promoting climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Since its inception in 2018, CRAFT has empowered agribusinesses and smallholder farmers through technical assistance, business facilitation, and knowledge management.

Event Theme: "Private Sector-oriented Climate-Smart Agriculture for Smallholder Farmer Resilience: The CRAFT Experience"

This theme encapsulates the project's mission to bolster smallholder farmers' resilience through climate-smart, inclusive, and scalable business models. The event will serve as a platform to reflect on lessons learned, celebrate achievements, and chart the course for future initiatives.

Focus Areas

1. Adoption of Climate-Smart Practices and Technologies:
• Impact at the farmer and Agri-SME/Cooperative level.
• Adoption rates of CSA practices and technologies.
• Access to weather information, extension services, and climate finance.
2. Business Performance and Climate-Related Investments:
• Increasing investments in CSA value chains (pulses, oilseeds, potatoes, and cereals).
• Access to innovative climate finance and market opportunities.
• Derisking agricultural value chains and enhancing service delivery models.
3. Enabling Environment for CSA:
• Identifying policy and regulatory barriers.
• Stimulating CSA adoption through effective policies and regulations.
• Coordination of national and sub-national institutions on CSA policy development and implementation.
4. Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) in CSA:
• Inclusion of women and youth in CSA value chains.
• Employment creation and entrepreneurship development.
• Facilitating the voice of women and youth in system transformation for smallholder agricultural systems.

Expected Outcomes

• Understanding what works and what doesn't in driving CSA adoption.
• Lessons learned from CSA interventions.
• Strategies for future CSA programming.
• Networking opportunities to enhance coordination and synergies in the CSA space.

Join Us

We invite all stakeholders, including agribusinesses, farmers, policymakers, and development partners, to join us in this reflective and forward-looking event. Together, we can build a resilient and sustainable agricultural future for smallholder farmers in East Africa.

Date: 24^th – 26^th September
Location: Nairobi, Kenya

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