Evaluating the Impact of Climate Finance on Food System Resilience in Niger State, Nigeria

This paper discusses how climate finance affects food system resilience in the Niger state of Nigeria and specifically covers
the smallholder farmers and community-based organisations (CBOs). A mixed-methods design was used to gather data, which was
collected via the use of structured survey and semi-structured interviews to farmers, local government officials, and NGO
representatives who participated in climate finance programs. The paper focuses on climate finance, its implementation in fostering
climate-smart agriculture, reducing risks related to climate changes, and improving food security. It further looks into how institutional
capacity, quality of governance and gender influences access to climate finance. Its results indicate that climatic funding does
positively affect the resilience of the food system, but its effect is limited due to institutional vulnerabilities, gender inequalities, and
community-based limitations. Women farmers are faced with systemic barriers to access climate finance, which restricts them to use
climate-adaptive strategies. The research proposal suggests gender and gender specific policies, improved governance, institutional
building on capacity, and increased community involvement to optimize the success of climate finance in developing resilient food
systems in the state of Niger.