Country: Kenya
Development Strategies to Empower Vulnerable Women Farmers via Sustainable Finance and Mechanization for Climate Resilience
Context
Counties in Kenya with low-lying, arid, and semi-arid landscapes, marked by unpredictable and unreliable rainfall, significantly contribute to land degradation challenges faced by smallholder farmers. Climate change intensifies these issues, particularly for Kenyan women in agriculture, by heightening vulnerability through disrupted livelihoods, water scarcity, crop failures, and limited access to financing. The existing gender gaps further amplify this unequal burden, as women often lack the resources and knowledge necessary for effective adaptation.
Goal
To address the following issues: First, enhancing access to Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization. Second, establishing and operationalizing innovative financing and insurance support services. Third, ensure effective management of the generated knowledge through M&E exercises.
CAA Technical Assistance
The technical assistance provided by a specialized team at the Climate Risk Institute will contribute to increased climate action by allowing essential studies and assessments to be conducted for enhancing access to innovative farming technologies based on agroecological and regenerative conservation agriculture and, investing in private sector-driven innovative financing and parametric insurance support services. By integrating parametric insurance and other financing schemes, and incorporating modern agricultural technologies, the technical assistance aims to remove barriers hindering the adoption of modern agricultural solutions and adaptive strategies while creating an enabling environment for smallholder women farmers. The project proposes to enhance the understanding of the necessary requirements for the development of gender-responsive parametric insurance schemes, especially for smallholder women farmers.
