Smallholder agriculture: a risk transfer approach to building resilience

Smallholder farmers represent over 80 percent of farms worldwide. They are facing more frequent and severe climate shocks, but lack access to the tools required to mitigate them.

This working paper is for a growing community of stakeholders seeking to explore how risk transfer can be incorporated into risk mitigation, resilience-building and market-building measures to support smallholder farmers to grow yields, increase incomes and cope with the natural disasters of today and the future.