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Emphasizes that resilience investment must connect climate action and development, especially for hundreds of millions of small-scale food producers. Argues that “weathering the storm” is insufficient and calls for deeper resilience across food systems, communities, and individuals. Highlights shocks driving food insecurity and social impacts, and outlines IFAD priorities to strengthen smallholders, improve value chains, and scale climate adaptation finance.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nDEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE  \n(Joint Ministerial Committee  \nof the  \nBoards of Governors ofthe Bank and the Fund  \non the  \nTransfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries)  \nONE HUDRED AND SIXTH MEETING WASHINGTON, D.C.– OCTOBER 14, 2022  \nDC/S/2022-0040 October 14, 2022  \nStatement by  \nAlvaro Lario  \nPresident  \nInternational Fund for Agricultural Development  \nStatement by  \nAlvaro Lario  \nPresident  \nInternational Fund for Agricultural Development  \n106th Meeting of the Development Committee  \nOctober 14, 2022  \nWashington, D.C.  \nWe need urgently to invest in resilience across the development spectrum, and investing in climate and investing in development can no longer be separated. This is especially true of investment in the resilience of the hundreds of millions of small-scale food producers who produce one third of food consumed worldwide. 1 Whether we are considering agriculture and climate, or food insecurity and severe climate events, or humanitarian relief and longer-term investments in resilience and adaptation, we can no longer separate food security, climate, and a just energy transition if we are to reach our development goals.  \nFirst, we must recognize that “weathering the storm” is necessary but not sufficient; we also need to fundamentally shift our focus to building resilience – of food systems, communities, and individuals – against the broad spectrum of shocks facing the globe. The underpinnings ofthe food insecurity crisis were well established far before the impacts of the war in Ukraine, before the COVID pandemic, before the onslaught of increasingly devastating and frequent climate disasters.  \nThe last several years have laid bare the fragilities and inequities of food systems around the globe.  \nPrice spikes, supply shortages, droughts, floods, locust invasions, pandemic restrictions, reactionary hoarding and export restrictions – all of these affect small-scale farmers and food producers, and all call forfar broader and deeper investments in resilience building interventions and more robust and equitable food systems. We ignore this call at our peril – beyond the devastating human toll, the costs of repeated humanitarian interventions will continue to skyrocket. Moreover, the ripple effects of food system shocks extend well beyond food systems, into social unrest, distress-driven migration or displacement. We cannot simply lurch from crisis to crisis; instead, we need to prepare for the many current and future storms so that they do not trigger crises when they occur.  \nFinance is an essential part of this shift. Focusing on and financing small-scale food producers’ longterm resilience is at the core of the response to both themes – however, there are imbalances we must address to make this successful. We must:  \n• Increase our focus on and funding for smallholder farmers and food producers. Some hear“smallholder farmers” and think we are speaking of subsistence farming at the margins – but our smallholder farming systems make major contributions to food security in the developing world, and are a key to spreading climate-smart approaches in agriculture. And they are actually more efficient: farms of up to 2 hectares are producing 31 percent of the world’s calories on under 11 percent of the world’s farmland2. IFAD focuses on supporting small scale producers’ transformation to more profitable, sustainable and resilient business models and therefore improved livelihoods for farmers and producers and their communities.  \n1 [https://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1395127/icode/](https://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1395127/icode/)  \n[2](2 IFAD Rural Development Report 2021)[ IFAD Rural Development Report 2021](2 IFAD Rural Development Report 2021) .  \nDespite the critical roles that these individuals, entrepreneurs, and communities play in sustaining our food systems and in acting as stewards of our shared natural environment, they are oft","cbCaioghTqEEQFb4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioghTqEEQFb4","pdf",212310,4,1,5,"English","en",105,"# Development Committee statement\n## Resilience as a shared investment priority\n## Food security, climate shocks, and inequities\n## Finance and IFAD priorities: smallholders and adaptation","[{\"question\":\"Why does the statement say climate and development investment can no longer be separated?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that shocks affecting food producers link climate impacts with broader development outcomes, so resilience investment must address both together to meet development goals.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the statement propose beyond “weathering the storm”?\",\"answer\":\"It calls for a fundamental shift toward building resilience in food systems, communities, and individuals against a broad range of shocks.\"},{\"question\":\"What financing actions does the statement highlight for IFAD and partners?\",\"answer\":\"It stresses increasing focus and funding for smallholder farmers and food producers, strengthening local production and value chains, and raising funding for climate adaptation in agriculture and food systems.\"}]","Alvaro Lario - 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