Jamaica has secured a $50 million climate resilience project aimed at protecting small farmers from intensifying droughts, stronger storms, and increasingly erratic rainfall, a move officials describe as essential to safeguarding the country’s food supply.
But beneath the announcement is a harder truth: without intervention, parts of Jamaica’s agricultural system are already beginning to fail.
The funding, approved by the Green Climate Fund, includes $35 million in grant financing, with the Jamaican government adding $15 million.
The initiative, ADAPT Jamaica, will target six central parishes responsible for roughly 70 percent of the island’s domestic food production.
For a country on the frontline of climate exposure, this is not simply an upgrade.
It is a defensive move, a shift from reacting to damage to trying to prevent collapse.
