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Technical-Financial Facility to Enable the Structural Transformation of Colombia’s Food Systems

Colombia’s agri-food system is shaped by deep territorial inequalities, high levels of food insecurity, climate vulnerability, and limited financial inclusion of rural producers. Small-scale productive units (SSPUs) form the backbone of local food supply and rural economies, yet face systemic exclusion from credit, insurance, and structured markets. The national food systems pathway highlights the need for productive transformation, healthier diets, and resilience. The Joint Programme responds by creating a national Technical-Financial Facility that bridges the gap between financial institutions and SSPUs, enabling them to invest in climate-smart, nature-positive, and nutritionally aligned production systems.

• A functional Technical-Financial Facility designed and piloted with financial institutions and rural associations.
• Strengthened capacity of smallholders to structure bankable, nature-positive investment proposals aligned with sustainable diets and climate resilience.
• Better integration of SSPUs into structured markets, particularly public procurement such as school feeding programmes.

Asobancaria; Banca de las Oportunidades; National Agricultural Credit Commission; rural associations; territorial governments; financial institutions; cooperatives.

• Co-designed financial ecosystem including credit guarantees, tailored lending products, insurance tools, and digital risk-management services.
• Technical-financial assistance enabling SSPUs to prepare viable investment plans and meet procurement standards.
• A demonstrative pipeline of producers ready to access finance and diversify nature-positive production.
• Institutional alignment to embed the facility in Colombia’s development finance architecture.