General

Contributing to meeting the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s objectives of the Country Programming Framework (CPF 2017-2021). This un-earmarked funding contributes towards meeting the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s objectives of the Country Programming Framework 2017-2021 that intends to improve capacity for policy planning, land reform, decentralization, management of common natural resource; foster expansion of irrigation and field water management; and support intensive agriculture for commercialization, value chains development, and job creation. Due to its nature as a response to a humanitarian appeal operational results are general and highly aggregated and the MFA contribution is thus reflected in the overall results reporting by the partner. Please refer to the hyperlink below. https://www.fao.org/publications/en/

Objectives

Contributing to meeting the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s objectives of the Country Programming Framework (CPF 2017-2021).

Objectives

The Danish contribution to the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) 6th replenishment amounts to 435 million DKK out of a total replenishment of 4.2 billion USD. Denmark is the 13th largest donor to GEF. GEF is the financial mechanism for a number of key international environmental conventions and agreements (climate change, international Waters, land degradation, ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants, sustainable forest management and the convention on Mercury). GEF privdes grants and concessional Funding to cover the incremental or additional costs Associated with transforming a projekt with national benefits into one with global environmental benefits thereby promoting environmental sustainable development. As of today GEF is a global partnership among 183 countries, international institutions, NGOøs and the private sector. The GEF leadership is keen to place GEF prominently in the new environmental and Financial landscape including the process on developing sustainable development goals. For the same reason the GEF Council has adopted the new GEF 2020 strategy with a focus on the drivers behind environmental degradations and on synergies between activities under various conventions and agreements. The activities under GEF is currently implemented by 15 international institutions comprising multilateral banks, major UN organisations plus international non-governmental organizations.

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In Latin America and the Caribbean, as elsewhere, low-income and marginalized communities have seen their vulnerability exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. They are experiencing greater food insecurity and are suffering more from the cascading impacts of natural hazards and climate change. Yet every day, they produce informal, bottom-up solutions to these problems, transforming public spaces, housing, and urban conditions at the margins of the authorities’ influences and plans. These bottom-up solutions are still not fully understood, and little is known about how conditions of urban informality — where infrastructure and services are scarce, land tenure is disputed, governance structures are fragile, and housing conditions are poor — influence the emergence, sustainability, and scaling of alternative food systems. These are food systems that are local, healthy, equitable, inclusive, and culturally relevant. This project seeks to explore: (a) how bottom-up informal solutions interact with food systems and contribute to making them more resilient to shocks such as climate change and pandemics; (b) how urban systems such as infrastructure and housing in informal settlements influence the resilience and vulnerability of alternative food systems and, by doing so, how they influence people’s capacity to deal with climate change impacts; and (c) the conditions for scaling impact, transferring results, and overcoming implementation barriers towards resilient alternative food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. The aim is to use such knowledge to support on-the-ground, locally specific efforts to strengthen alternative food systems, as well as to generate and practice lessons related to the food system, with a view to reducing vulnerabilities and building resilience. The project will involve research, training, and implementation activities in four countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, and Cuba. It will also include networking and sharing of activities among the four countries as well as other countries of the Dry Corridor of Central America. It will produce new knowledge and yield policy changes through innovative explorations that combine empirical research, action research, and design. These activities will help enhance local capacity and interaction among community leaders, public officials, and academic partners, and better equip communities and institutions to address the challenges of food insecurity and natural hazards in the coming years.