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<p>DFID is supporting research organisations to make assessments of the impact of
climate change on agriculture, food security and malnutrition. This includes support
to the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Programme. One of its recent
assessments found that 60% of production of beans in sub-Saharan Africa was at risk
from climate change. DFID also supports the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems
for Nutrition which has recently made an assessment of the effects of climate change
on food systems and nutrition.</p><p>DFID is using these assessments to inform our
policies and programmes on agriculture. For example DFID’s Agriculture Policy Framework
includes action on climate change as one of its priorities for our programmes. An
example is our support to the International Fund for Agriculture Development’s Adaptation
for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP). Our support to ASAP is helping 6 million
smallholder farmers to cope with the effects of climate change and at the same time
increasing their agriculture productivity, incomes and food security.</p>
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