About the Project
The project aims to strengthen the resilience and climate adaptability of 10,000 smallholder farming families (7,500 women, 1,500 youth, and 1,000 men) across four climate-vulnerable districts in Sri Lanka: Ratnapura, Kegalle, Kurunegala, and Puttalam. Working through 200 grassroots cooperatives, the project will enhance access to knowledge, finance, and markets to support sustainable, market-oriented food production.
The project will achieve this by strengthening cooperative governance and expanding their role into diversified agribusiness entities, improving financial and risk management services including credit and insurance, and supporting the development of 50 cooperative-led agribusinesses through an incubation approach. The project will also build the capacity of 10,000 farmers and leaders in climate-smart agriculture and agroecology, while empowering women leaders with training on food safety, sustainable diets, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture to enable peer-to-peer knowledge sharing within their communities.
Country
- Sri Lanka
Project Status
Under Preperation
Funding
Producer Organization-led project
Supervising entity
- IFAD
Call Year
2025