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While smallholder farmers are the primary food producers in Southern Africa, contributing to 90 percent of food production in some countries, often systems in the region do not support profitability for them. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is working across Southern Africa to address bottlenecks in food systems to enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers. This factsheet gives an overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s approach to smallholder farmers.

While Southern Africa contributes only 1 percent to global carbon emissions, their temperatures are rising at double the global rate and climate impacts such as cyclones and droughts are rampant. This factsheet brings to the fore climate change challenges in the region and how Â鶹ÊÓƵ is supporting the people in adapting to this unrelenting phenomenon.

To increase uptake of weather index insurance in Zambia, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is providing technical assistance to the Government to improve the design and management of the insurance product provided under the Farmers Input Support Programme (FISP)- the Government¡¯s agriculture input subsidy programme. This report presents main milestones and achievements of Â鶹ÊÓƵ and partners¡¯ technical support to the Government of Zambia

This briefing investigates the ¡®driving forces¡¯ or ¡®trends¡¯ shaping southern African food systems.

Given the chronic food insecurity and malnutrition prevalent in the Southern African region, this paper analyses the role of food security and nutrition in social protection programming and in bridging the humanitarian- development divide using the COVID-19 experience of several countries in the region.

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s flagship approach for integrated climate risk management. The initiative combines four risk management strategies: improved natural resource management through asset creation or improved agricultural practices (risk reduction), microinsurance (risk transfer), increased investment, livelihoods diversification, and microcredit (prudent risk taking) and savings (risk reserves).

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s flagship approach for integrated climate risk management. The initiative combines four risk management strategies: improved natural resource management through asset creation or improved agricultural practices (risk reduction), microinsurance (risk transfer), increased investment, livelihoods diversification, and microcredit (prudent risk taking) and savings (risk reserves).

This synthesis comprises 32 decentralized evaluations completed between 2016 and 2019 that included country capacity strengthening (CSS) among other Â鶹ÊÓƵ activities.

Risk finance can empower women with regard to climate resilience. This brochure presents success stories of women in Guatemala and Zambia showing how risk finance has changed their lives.

The Government of Zambia commissioned the Zero Hunger Strategic Review (ZHSR) to lay out in a comprehensive manner the status, trends, responses and gaps in the five pillars of the Zero Hunger Challenge. The review recommends actions needed to achieve SDG 2 by 2030. It provides a situational analysis of food and nutrition security in Zambia to contextualise the challenges and opportunities of achieving Zero Hunger by 2030.

The second quarter of 2019 focused on the implementation of R4 activities in each of the six countries.

The strategic evaluation provides a formative and forward-looking assessment of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s support for enhanced resilience. Its purpose is predominantly to promote learning to inform resilience programming across Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

The publication promotes knowledge sharing and diffusion of a wide range of tested policies and experiences on how social protection initiatives can contribute to increasing food and nutrition security.

This Synthesis of Operations Evaluations for the Southern Africa Region brings together the findings of 11 operations evaluations, conducted from mid-2013 to mid-2017.