COTE D’IVOIRE Secures $50 Million Climate Finance Package to Support Smallholder Farmers

Côte d’Ivoire has secured a US$50 million climate finance package from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to help thousands of smallholder farmers adapt to climate change and improve food crop resilience. The funding will support the Enhancing Sustainable Land Management and Climate-Resilient Agri-food Systems in Côte d’Ivoire (LARACI) project to promote climate-smart practices, including cassava-legume intercropping, wider adoption of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) to increase water-use efficiency and lower methane emissions, and climate-smart yam staking techniques.

The five-year project brings together the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, CGIAR and the country’s Interprofessional Fund for Agricultural Research and Advice (FIRCA) to scale proven climate solutions across the regions of N’Zi, Moronou, Iffou, La Mé and Gbêkê.