At the UN Climate Change Subsidiary Bodies meetings (SB64) in Bonn, farmer leaders representing 95 million smallholders across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific delivered a clear message that climate resilience cannot be built without investing directly in the people who produce most of the world's food, according to International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). During a press conference titled "World's smallholders call for finance action amid El Niño threat," Esther Penunia, Secretary General of the Asian Farmers Association, Stephen Muchiri, CEO of the East Africa Farmers Federation, and Thomas Patriota, Head of International Affairs at Brazil's Ministry of Development and Family Farming, highlighted mounting challenges facing family farmers. They stressed that climate finance must reach smallholder farmers and their organizations more effectively. The leaders warned that the farmers most exposed to climate risks remain among the least supported. Only a small share of climate finance currently reaches smallholder farmers and their organizations directly.