{"id":3046,"date":"2025-10-23T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/led.digicube.dev\/investing-in-smallholder-farmers-to-harvest-change\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:56:59","slug":"investing-in-smallholder-farmers-to-harvest-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/investing-in-smallholder-farmers-to-harvest-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in smallholder farmers to harvest change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"gb-text size_20\">Smallholder farmers in Africa, Latin America and Asia are the backbone of many food systems and yet are often underfunded. A lack of investment and a lack of technical support make it difficult for them to develop their farms sustainably, cope with climate change and secure their yields. <\/p>\n\n<p>This is precisely where the Smallholder SustaiNability Upscaling Program (SSNUP) comes in. It supports actors along the agricultural value chains &#8211; from producers to processors: through technical assistance and accompanying investments. This improves financial services, advisory services and market access for smallholder farmers.  <\/p>\n\n<p>The LED is contributing 1.5 million euros to the program and is helping smallholder families to increase their productivity, become more resilient to crises and achieve a stable income.<\/p>\n\n<p>Goals of the program:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Smallholder farmers gain access to new financial services, training and sales markets.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agricultural companies grow sustainably, create jobs and invest in environmentally friendly practices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Impact investors are encouraged to invest in previously underserved agricultural markets.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Companies outside the program are increasingly adopting sustainable production and processing practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The program runs from May 2025 to April 2029 and is implemented in low- and middle-income countries. It makes an important contribution to food security, poverty reduction and the promotion of sustainable agricultural systems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smallholder farmers in Africa, Latin America and Asia are the backbone of many food systems and yet are often underfunded. A lack of investment and a lack of technical support make it difficult for them to develop their farms sustainably, cope with climate change and secure their yields. This is precisely where the Smallholder SustaiNability &#8230; <a title=\"Investing in smallholder farmers to harvest change\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/investing-in-smallholder-farmers-to-harvest-change\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Investing in smallholder farmers to harvest change\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}