An introduction to assessing climate resilience in smallholder supply chains
This guide offers food and beverage companies a working definition of climate resilience, plus an actionable process guide and sample indicator framework for diagnosing climate resilience in smallholder crop-focused supply chains.
The guide breaks down the complex concept of resilience into manageable themes and suggests a five-step process for applying these themes with particular suppliers – namely smallholder farmers and intermediary aggregators (e.g., farmer cooperatives, small private processors) – to better understand and manage climate risk:
- Know your risk: Identifying threatened geographies and crops
- Know your farmers: Identifying where risk sits in your supply chain
- Know your resilience: Matching risk to resilience capacity
- Know how to build resilience: Designing strategy or targeted interventions in response to diagnostic findings
- Know your progress: Monitoring through continuous measurement
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