This document summarizes a workshop on financing climate-smart agriculture projects in rainfed areas. The workshop aimed to discuss how to manage increasing risks in predominantly rainfed systems and explore options for innovative risk management approaches and financing to increase resilience. Key questions to be discussed included policies and institutions needed to encourage climate-smart rainfed agriculture, establishing public-private partnerships for supplemental irrigation, and strategies for financing climate-smart agriculture in the region. Case studies from Morocco, MENA, Iran, and Egypt were also to be presented.

1. Near East & North Africa Land and Water Days
T5: Rainfed agriculture
Financing climate smart agriculture projects
Introduction / Framing discussion
Mohammed Karrou, ICARDA
17 December, 2013
Amman, Jordan

2. Challenges in Rainfed areas

4. How to increase agricultural productivity and
livelihoods ?
• Increase climate resilience of farmer and pastoral
commmunities in regions of high rainfall variability to
attract investments opportunities
 This will be achieved through sterngthening
institutional and technical capacity for weather
forcasting/early warning and drought/CC
adaptation and mitigation

5. Objectives of the workshop
• To discuss how to manage increasing uncertainty and
risks in predominantly rainfed systems;
• To explore options for innovating risk management
approaches and financing for increasing the resilience

6. Key questions to be discussed
•What are the policies and the institutional components that are
needed to encourage climate-smart rainfed agriculture?
•How can public-private partnerships established to advance
successful supplemental irrigation modality for rainfed
agriculture?
•How can motivate countries in the NENA region to
endorse/adopt climate-smart rainfed agriculture?
•What are the conditions/factors that would govern strategies
for financing climate smart agriculture within the region?
•How similar, or different, are the conditions/factors that would
govern strategies for financing climate smart agriculture within
the region?

7. Case studies
• Morocco case study: Supplemental irrigation ;
• MENA case study: Water productivity enhancement;
• Iran case study: Improving rainwater productivity with
supplemental irrigation at the farm level;
• Egypt case study: Sustainable in Northern coastal zone
of Egypt.

8. Thank you