This study assessed intermediate results of an investment intended to support climate change adaptation and resilience-building among farmers’ cooperatives in Rwanda. The assessment was based on a purposive sampling survey of farmers’ perspectives conducted in sites in 10 programme intervention districts of the country’s 30 districts. Assessed interventions included the enhancing of farmer-access, quality and utilization of climate information services; on-farm participatory trials of climate-smart crop and forage varieties; and climate-smart harvest and post-harvest support for infrastructural development at “HUBs” for shared post-harvest storage and marketing. Interventions included the capacity development among farmers’ organizations to access funding from commercial lending for integrating climate-smart features in warehouse construction and in other post-harvest infrastructure. Demonstration infrastructures were also constructed by a funding arrangement between the programme, local government structures and farmers’ organizations.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/investing-farm-and-post-harvest-resilience-climate-change-smallholder-value-chains
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/denis-rugege
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sonja-vermeulen
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/cgiar-research-program-climate-change
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/agriculture-and-food-security-ccafs
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-adaptation
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/farmers
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cooperatives
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rwanda
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/post-harvest-losses
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/information