In focus
Harnessing technology to cope with drought and water scarcity
As this year’s World Day to Combat Desertification spotlights water scarcity, IFAD and partners take new approaches to sustaining livelihoods and food security in dryland regions.
Cutting food waste to conserve resources and fight hunger
For World Environment Day, making the connections between post-harvest crop losses, food insecurity and environmental degradation.
In focus
Transforming rural areas
Today more people live in cities than ever before, but we still depend on rural areas for our food. In the developing world, up to 80 per cent of food is produced on small farms that are usually family run.
Stories from the field
IFAD-supported activities go nationwide in The Gambia
After 31 years of successful work empowering smallholder farmers in The Gambia to increase their productivity, IFAD is now scaling up activities to cover agricultural areas across the whole country. A new IFAD-supported project, the National Agricultural Land and Water Management Development Project, known in the local Mandinka language as Nema – meaning peaceful and prosperous – is just getting under way.
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In focus
Smallholder farmers key to lifting over one billion people out of poverty
Supporting smallholder farmers to play a greater role in food production and natural resource stewardship is one of the quickest ways to lift over one billion people out of poverty and sustainably nourish a growing world population, a new United Nations report released today said.
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In focus
ASAP squares up to Mozambique challenge
The first project to include funds from IFAD’s new Adaptation for Smallholder Programme (ASAP) was officially launched on 17 April 2013 in XaiXai, Gaza Province of Mozambique.
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