This special event will inform participants about the latest development, opportunities and continuing challenges faced by smallholder producer organizations to access finance to make agri-food systems, including forestry, more inclusive and sustainable.

Objectives include:

• Share experiences of how financing mechanisms are being designed and implemented at national and local level, including by indigenous and community organizations.
• Share lessons learned from initiatives to mobilize finance from multiple sources, including climate finance and value chain finance, and for forest and farm producer organizations.
• Discuss issues, lessons and prospects to scale up climate financing for forests, including through indigenous people, producer organizations, and other forest value chain actors.