World Bank 2020 Innovation Challenge for Agriculture and Food Security Risk Financing in Southern Africa | Opportunity Desk

Applications for the World Bank 2020 Innovation Challenge for Agriculture and Food Security Risk Financing in Southern Africa are now open. The World Bank’s Agriculture Observatory with the support of Draper University is launching three innovation challenges to accelerate the world response to the growing effects of climate change in agriculture and tackle some of the most urgent needs in SADC agriculture and food security today.

The agriculture sector faces increasing risks as natural disasters become more frequent and disruptive due to climate change. Climate change is expected to intensify the following agriculture risks in the South Africa Development Community (SADC):

To incentivize the development of these risk financing tools, the World Bank is launching the following three challenges with the aim to demonstrate alternative ways of collecting or monitoring critical datasets and indices that can be used to ultimately assess in a granular, scalable and dynamic way the various dimensions of impact induced by agricultural stressors.

Challenges

Application

For more information, visit World Bank Innovation Challenge.