Irrigation to Enhance Yields and Climate-resilience Beneficiary Targeting

The Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a program for developing countries and regions to build adaptation and resilience to the impacts of climate change. The program supports the Sustainable Land & Water Resources Management Project (SLWRMP) in Mozambique, implemented by the African Development Bank and focusing on addressing key welfare challenges faced by rural farming communities, including low and/or unequal incomes, food insecurity, and the effects of land degradation. The irrigation component of the project is achieving this by providing beneficiary communities with small-scale irrigation kits, contributing to an increase of farmers’ incomes by expanding cultivation to the dry season (double cropping calendar); allowing for the cultivation of water-sensitive crops (diversification); and improving resilience to droughts.