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Resilience Ratings for Agriculture

Our Resilience Ratings for Agriculture deliver repeatable, systematic information on the resilience of rural businesses to climate related hazards

Agricultural systems around the world are increasingly affected by climate related hazards, including extreme heat, droughts, flooding and storms. These are sometimes felt as short-term events or longer periods of sub-optimal conditions. Farmers are often capable of adapting through a series of incremental changes but sometimes adaptation is insufficient and a transformation of the farming system is required.

 

Our process ensures that resilience ratings are produced in a consistent and objective manner, to a high standard and that meta-data on the provenance of the data inputs and assumptions are preserved.

Our ratings scores a farm’s exposure, sensitivity and adaptability to specified climate hazards and provides information on the need for adaptive or transformational finance

Climate Resilience Ratings provide essential information needed to guide successful adaptation initiatives, providing a repeatable way of assessing the need and the outcomes of resilience programs.

Further details and strategic recommendations are provided within the full report,

Climate Resilience Ratings Report: Rice Farms in Sri Lanka - Coming soon

How are Ratings Delivered?

Our ratings are delivered for groups of farmers in specific locations / regions and crop or agricultural system types through a process involving the following steps.

1

Background Research

Background research into the situation and definition of the target groups
2

Configuration of Ratings Survey

Configuration of a rating survey based on our templates - customisation or preliminary testing, as required.
3

Data Collection

Data collection, which can include training and support of data collectors, if required
4

Data Analysis

Analysis and triangulation with climate records and satellite information
5

Reporting and feedback to farmers

Periodic updates included, as required

Resilience Ratings are relevant to the following types of organisations:

Farmers' and food producers organisations

“How many of our members need help with resilience?”

“Are financial institutions helping enough?”

“What other support do our members need to become resilient?”

 

Need personalised support to navigate climate change challenges?

Let us know how we can support your organisation. Complete our questionnaire to begin building tailored solutions to boost your agricultural resilience

Private Financial Institutions

“How many of the businesses in our portfolio are struggling to adapt?”

“Are our financial products helping or making matters worse?”

“Are new financial products required to help transform?”

 

Need personalised support to navigate climate change challenges?

Let us know how we can support your organisation. Complete our questionnaire to begin building tailored solutions to boost your agricultural resilience

Multilateral Finance & Development Institutions

“How resilient are farms in a particular sector / region?”

“Are target programmes effective at improving resilience?”

“What transformations are needed in specific sectors?”

 

Need personalised support to navigate climate change challenges?

Let us know how we can support your organisation. Complete our questionnaire to begin building tailored solutions to boost your agricultural resilience

Government agencies responsible for agriculture and climate adaptation

“How resilient is our agricultural sector?”

“Which farmers are successful or struggling to adapt?”

“Which government policies can support effective adaptation?”

 

Need personalised support to navigate climate change challenges?

Let us know how we can support your organisation. Complete our questionnaire to begin building tailored solutions to boost your agricultural resilience

Buyers and processors of agricultural products

“Which suppliers are struggling to adapt and may fail to deliver?”

“Can we help our suppliers to adapt and become resilient?”

“Are there opportunities for strengthening the supply chain?”

 

Need personalised support to navigate climate change challenges?

Let us know how we can support your organisation. Complete our questionnaire to begin building tailored solutions to boost your agricultural resilience

NGO's working on Climate Adaptation

“What is the baseline level of resilience within our target group?”

“Is our project improving resilience?”

“Will resilience be maintained beyond the life of the project?”

 

Need personalised support to navigate climate change challenges?

Let us know how we can support your organisation. Complete our questionnaire to begin building tailored solutions to boost your agricultural resilience

Why choose Resilience Constellation?

We have:

 

  • Decades of experience in assessing the impacts of initiatives designed to protect and improve rural livelihoods and food systems 
  • Developed a systematic, science-based framework for assessing the resilience of farming systems to climate related hazards that can be readily configured and applied to different situations globally, in a repeatable manner
  • Focused our efforts on this problem because we believe it is urgent and important
  • Developed efficient and effective processes, combining data from different sources to objectively assess the situation
  • A collaborative and open-minded approach to address the challenges of the sector.

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