From risk to resilience: incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses (day 5)
Channel: IIED
Date: 2022-02-04

This virtual Forest and Farm Facility training-of-trainers event took place over five days from the 10-14 January 2022. 

It provided a refresher course on two toolkits that have been developed to support practitioners in improving business incubation and risk management processes – plus adding a new module on 30 practical options to climate-proof your business.

Day 5. Climate proofing your business  

Days 4 and 5 are based on lessons from 'Diversification for climate resilience. Thirty options for forest and farm producer organisations: https://pubs.iied.org/20311iied

The infographic for 30 resilience options is also available from the FAO website: https://www.fao.org/3/cb5931en/cb5931en.pdf

1:54 - Module 13: Economic options for resilience

After this session, participants will have confidence that they know most of the ecological and technological options that they might use to improve the climate resilience of their farms.

37:28 - Module 14: Access to finance: how to finance climate resilience

In this session we examine some of the reasons why forest and farm producer business struggle to access finance. By the end of this session, the participants should have a clear idea of six possible sources of finance, key priorities in developing access to those financial sources and how to approach financial institutions.

1:21:32 - Module 15: Documenting and spreading understanding of climate resilience in ways that open connections to climate finance

This final session introduces the ways in which forest and farm producer organisation structures – from local to regional to national level - can be used to help build awareness about climate resilience and link to the main sources of climate and development finance that might become increasingly available. 

After this session participants will be able to design a strategy for spreading climate resilience within their FFPOs and that also can serve to attract finance with government and civil society partners and funding streams.