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Cocoa and coffee are climate-sensitive commodities cultivated by smallholder farmers across Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, and Uganda. They face increasing risks from climate variability, land degradation, and tightening regulatory requirements. Pre-harvest finance remains structurally underprovided, as commercial lenders rarely extend unsecured credit in rural emerging markets, while cooperatives and exporters lack the financial resources to support farmers year-round. Climate finance has typically prioritised large infrastructure programmes rather than value chain operations, leaving a persistent gap.

The FSF ACCT programme scales sustainability-linked working capital and technical assistance for enterprises operating in cocoa and coffee landscapes across the ten countries, building on a strategy tested through the Food Securities Fund (FSF). It provides short-term renewable working capital loans to midstream enterprises sourcing from smallholder farmers, paired with targeted technical assistance on climate-smart practices, traceability, and gender inclusion.

The programme is structured around two components: an investment facility providing working capital loans linked to annual environmental and social due diligence; and a technical assistance facility supporting borrowers across environmental, social, and business resilience themes. Demand-side actors, including large multinational agribusinesses, provide additional risk mitigation through guarantees at the sub-project level.

The programme was developed under GCF's Project-specific Assessment Approach (PSAA).

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is home to some of the world’s most important carbon-sink ecosystems and biodiversity hotspots. However, the region is also highly vulnerable to climate change. These climate pressures threaten ecosystems, rural livelihoods, and resource-dependent communities. While nature-based solutions are increasingly recognised as critical tools for climate mitigation and adaptation, investment in these approaches remains limited across the region. Rural small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which play a vital role in delivering nature-based solutions, face significant financing barriers.  Many SMEs and smallholder farmers lack the technical capacity and business skills to implement climate-resilient, nature-positive practices at scale.

This programme seeks to close this gap by providing tailored growth capital and technical assistance to rural SMEs working in nature-based solution value chains across Latin America and the Caribbean. Investments will focus on sectors such as sustainable and regenerative agriculture, agroforestry and sustainable forestry management, aquaculture, circular economy solutions, and ecotourism.

Alongside financing, the programme will deliver specialised technical assistance to strengthen business performance and support the adoption of climate and nature standards, certifications, and monitoring systems. Over a ten-year period, the initiative is expected to generate significant climate benefits, including an estimated reduction of 55.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, while supporting climate resilience for approximately 1.3 million people and promoting sustainable management across more than one million hectares of land.

This project was developed under the Project-specific Assessment Approach (PSAA).

Local CSOs and CBOs in landscapes-seascapes around the world access grant financing and technical assistance, including capacity development and knowledge sharing to maintain and enhance their socio-ecological resilience, well-being and socio-economic conditions for global environmental benefits.

The objective of this project is to assist the Government of Guatemala in the preparation and submission of its First Biennial Transparency Report and a combined Fourth National Communication Report and Second Biennial Transparency for the fulfillment of the obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement (PA).

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