Where does climate change financing fit into the overall agriculture and rural development framework?
Grainger-Jones: Our collective response to climate change can be a positive driver for change. It can drive more sustainable production techniques. It can drive better, much better, risk management as part of efforts to build more resilient rural and urban economies, and rural communities. Or, it can be a force for disintegration, excluding agriculture from climate finance including the carbon market and ignoring it in adaptation efforts. So over the next five years or so we’re at a juncture where we’re setting up new frameworks for mitigation and adaptation. And if agriculture and rural development are not part of the frameworks, and if the frameworks are not part of agriculture and rural development, the agriculture sector will suffer. Climate change financing can support efforts to build a more sustainable agriculture system – for example developing information systems that enable farmers to take better decisions about organising their business, around providing financial systems th
