How Small Businesses Can Support Climate-Resilient Value Chains: Lessons from Uganda

The briefing highlights how small businesses, specifically domestic seed companies, support climate risk management (CRM) in developing countries. It recommends that these companies improve decision-making regarding seed choices, increase knowledge of climate-resilient varieties, and strengthen distribution and quality control systems. Additionally, it suggests that development practitioners support these efforts through infrastructure improvements, capacity building on climate risk integration, and facilitating access to climate finance, while researchers should investigate small businesses as climate knowledge brokers.

• Small businesses in developing countries contribute to climate risk management (CRM) by creating new products and services that mitigate the negative effects of climate change for their clients and suppliers, with domestic seed companies' investments in quality seeds serving as a primary example.
• To better support CRM, domestic seed companies should focus on improving informed decision-making regarding seed selection, raising awareness about the benefits of climate-resilient seeds, and enhancing the production, distribution, and quality control of these products through partnerships and standards.
• Development practitioners can support climate-resilient value chains by improving infrastructure, information, and markets, building the capacity of small businesses to integrate climate risks and weather information into decision-making, and assisting these businesses in accessing climate finance.

APA

Dazé,, J. D. (2016). How Small Businesses Can Support Climate-Resilient Value Chains: Lessons from Uganda. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/how-small-businesses-can-support-climate-resilient-value-chains-lessons-uganda

Chicago

Dazé,, Julie Dekens,Angie. How Small Businesses Can Support Climate-Resilient Value Chains: Lessons from Uganda. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2016. https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/how-small-businesses-can-support-climate-resilient-value-chains-lessons-uganda.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{daz2016how, author = {Dazé,, Julie Dekens,Angie}, title = {{How Small Businesses Can Support Climate-Resilient Value Chains: Lessons from Uganda}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2016}, month = oct, url = {https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/how-small-businesses-can-support-climate-resilient-value-chains-lessons-uganda}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }