As climate pressures intensify across agricultural landscapes, resilience is increasingly being understood as something that must be built beyond individual farms. This case study explores how climate resilience funding is helping to strengthen regional coordination, build practical Nature-Based Solutions capacity, and support longer-term livelihood resilience within Worldwide Fruit Limited’s South African supply base.
Focusing on the Waitrose Foundation-funded WWF South Africa – ECOFARMS “Growing Climate Resilience: Restoration Nursery Project”, the case study shows how targeted investment in nursery infrastructure, indigenous plant propagation, team training and restoration planning is laying the groundwork for practical ecological restoration across multiple farms. It also introduces the emerging Bokkeveld Regional Climate Resilience Network as a framework for more coordinated, landscape-level action — one that aims to align ecological, social and agricultural priorities over time.
Compiled by Blue North, this case study forms part of the 2025/2026 Worldwide Fruit case study series. While distinct from the regenerative farming-focused case studies, it builds on the same wider themes of climate adaptation, farmer-led action and long-term supply chain resilience. Together, these developments illustrate how climate resilience funding can help strengthen rural livelihoods, improve environmental stewardship and support more connected regional approaches to resilience.