Climate finance should target resilient food systems

In the coming months, the government will release a new international climate finance package. We are asking for it to support small-scale food producers in the Global South in adapting to climate change, writes Carol Thiessen.
Flooding has carved deep gullies at the bottom of these slopes in southern Ethiopia. A community effort to rehabilitate degraded watersheds is ongoing in the region as part of Canadian Foodgrains Bank’s Nature+ program.

The sight in the Humbo region of the Ethiopian Highlands in April was striking: dozens of women and men using hand tools to dig terraces all the way down the steep mountain slope. Those terraces then became level ground for tree-planting to further hold back the floodwaters ...

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