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Farmers in developing countries relying on natural resources and rainfed production systems for their livelihoods are among the most climate change-vulnerable groups in the World. For Lampung Province, Indonesia, studies show that climate change will affect cocoa growing negatively and significantly under a ‘business as usual’ scenario. At farm level the project will promote adaptation to climate change via climate-smart farming practices and agroforestry among poor cocoa farmers (Rio Marker 311), also introducing diversification of income sources for women and youth on the back of opportunities generated by the new production systems and practices and linking production to ‘green’ premium markets. Moreover, the project builds an advocacy case through the Cocoa Sustainability Partnership and at multiple levels in support of on-farm, as well as a landscape-level ecosystem-based climate change adaptation approach documented to provide long-term adaptation benefits and promoted by the UN.