The Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) by IFAD

The Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) was launched in 2012 by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). It is the largest global financing project which is committed to funding at least 8 million smallholder farmers to access information, tools and technologies and build their resilience to climate change.

ASAP aims to make the smallholder farmers climate resilient and orchestrate a massive Scaling-up of successful ”multiple-benefit” approaches. It expects to increase the smallholder farmers’ output while reducing and diversifying the climate-related risks.

ASAP is financed by IFAD and the governments of Belgium, Canada, Finland, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the Region of Flanders. 40 ASAP supported projects were approved, committing to an amount of US$271.6 million towards the adaptation to climate change.