Gums for Adaptation and Mitigation in Sudan (GAMS): Enhancing adaptive capacity of local communities and restoring carbon sink potential of the Gum Arabic belt, expanding Africa’s Great Green Wall

About this project

1. The paradigm shift objective is to enhance climate resilience of livelihoods and agro-sylvo-pastoral ecosystem services, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from land use in Kordofan, Sudan.[6] The restoration of agroforestry systems with gum arabic trees will protect the annual crops against increased moisture stress, improving the resilience of the livelihoods of poor smallholder farmers (Component 1). By building the capacity of 500 smallholder gum arabic producer associations (GAPAs) to produce larger quantities of clean, dry gum and facilitating contract farming arrangements (Component 1), the project will mobilize private sector financing for these GAPAs.[7] Gum companies such as Elemats[8], confident that GAPAs will be able to deliver on their high-quality gum delivery commitments, will provide GAPAs with pre-financing and key inputs (such as jute bags) to increase quantity and quality of gum production and will pay them a price premium for clean, dry gum.[9] Once smallholder groups will have “graduated” from the project’s capacity building efforts, they will be able to continue to leverage the purchase guarantees of the gum exporters mobilized by the project to obtain formal financial services from microfinance institutions – including from Ebda’a Microfinance Bank, which has already committed to provide additional credit for smallholder gum producers in partnership with the project (using the exporting companies’ purchase guarantees as collateral).[10] GAPAs…

Published by

Green Climate Fund · Multilateral

Countries

Sudan

Sectors

BiodiversitySocial ProtectionForestry policy and administrative management

Focus

Climate adaptation · Main focusClimate mitigation · Main focus

Funded by

Green Climate Fund

Implemented by

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Published by Green Climate Fund to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 1 Jul 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-41317-SAP019.

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