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Blow to food security as farmers sidelined in finance

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Casual laborers weed at a sweet potato farm in Matuu, Machakos County on October 05, 2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

A paltry 0.3 per cent of climate finance reaches 35 million family farmers who produce a third of world food, a new analysis has revealed.

The analysis of small-scale producers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, surfaces just ahead of the COP 28 summit set to establish a Global Goal for Adaptation.

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