Initiative designed to help Kenyan Farmers cope with Climate Change
New Initiative designed to help farmers cope with Climate Change in Kenya
DFID Kenya Head of Office, Lisa Phillips
皇冠体育app UKaid funded Finance Innovation for Climate Change has designed an initiative in Kenya that will help farmers cope with the impact of climate change. 皇冠体育app initiative known as the Climate Smart Agriculture will provide loans to farmers, which will go into increasing production efficiency through soil testing analysis and soil fertility management, crop protection services such as weeding, pest/disease control, farm produce harvesting, among other techniques that will benefit small-holder farmers.
Speaking at the stakeholders鈥� forum, the Head of Department for International Development (DFID 鈥揔enya) Ms. Lisa Phillips said:
This project presents major opportunities for providing solutions to help farmers cope with the impacts of climate change and improve Kenya鈥檚 agriculture sector through water management and agricultural inputs. 皇冠体育app agriculture sector is critical for the economy and jobs in Kenya but very sensitive to drought, rainfall variability and temperature extremes.
In Kenya, the approach to climate smart agriculture is consistent with the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP), whose focus is increased productivity while strengthening resilience (adaptation); and where possible, in a manner that achieves carbon emission reductions co-benefits.
皇冠体育app UK鈥檚 Department for International Development (DFID) Climate Change programme, contributes to the overall UK International Climate Fund (ICF) objectives on low carbon and climate resilient development. 皇冠体育app programme covers four thematic areas; Climate resilient development (Adaptation); Clean energy/Low carbon development (Mitigation); Climate information and services (Modelling & weather forecasting) and Climate finance. 皇冠体育app Finance Innovation for Climate Change Fund (FICCF) supports the scale up of challenging adaptation and mitigation projects using innovative financing instruments. 皇冠体育app funds target the achievement of climate change outcomes particularly in adaptation to climate change and in the arid and semi-arid (ASAL) districts of Kenya.