FAO report: Enabling pathways for drought finance in agriculture

The report provides an in-depth analysis of the structural particularities and the status of drought finance. It is about enabling pathways by proposing innovative strategies that stimulate the financial environment. The report responds to the issue of what innovative instruments and strategies should be used to make drought finance attractive for all sectors. The goal is to roll out larger-scale programmes to enable drought financing to yield a good return, thus supporting the efforts of the global community to build drought resilience through increased finance flows. 

FAO’s authors make the case that creating an enabling environment for the financial sector is the first step to intensifying investments into protecting agriculture from drought, and must be done by aligning the interest of the involved actors, including public and private stakeholders, the development and scientific community, and the impacted sectors. 

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