Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty
Statement, speeches and interviews
- Statement by IFAD President to the Agricultural Rural Development Day at Copenhagen University
- Article on climate change, published in Climate-L.org-Bulletin
- Climate change: a growing challenge for development and poverty reduction
- Compensation for farmers’ carbon sequestration
- Climate change interview with Deutschewelle
- "Listen to the Rural Poor", IPS interview with the President on climate change
- IFAD President answers questions on climate change
Case studies, publications, papers, reports and best practices
IFAD
- Viet Nam: Climate Change Analysis and Adaptation Responses
- ENRM best-practice statements
- Climate-smart smallholder agriculture: What's different? (2012)
English - Climate change: Building smallholder resilience
Arabic | English | French | Spanish - Climate change and the future of smallholder agriculture: How can rural poor people be a part of the solution to climate change?
- Desertification factsheet
English | French | Spanish - Gender and desertification: Making ends meet in drylands
- Gender and desertification: Expanding roles for women to restore drylands
- Harvesting rainwater in Jordan
- The Strategic Investment Program
for Sustainable Land Management
in sub-Saharan Africa
- Overview
- Comoros: Integrated Ecological Planning and Sustainable Land Management in Coastal Ecosystems in the Comoros
- Eritrea: Catchments and Landscape Management Project
- Ethiopia: Community-based Integrated Natural Resources Management in Lake Tana Watershed
- Mauritania: Participatory Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction in the Oases of Mauritania
- Niger: Agricultural and Rural Rehabilitation and Development Initiative
- Swaziland: Lower Usuthu Smallholder Irrigation Project
- IFAD/GEF adaptation to climate change workshop
- IFAD: a key player in adaptation to climate change (Factsheet)
- ODI-IFAD project briefing: Closing the gap between climate adaptation and poverty reduction frameworks
- Climate change, bio-cultural diversity and livelihoods: the stewardship role of indigenous peoples and new challenges
- The United Nations Climate Change Conference Agrees on Future Critical Steps to Tackle Climate Change
- International Climate Efforts Beyond 2012: A Survey of Approaches
- Forging a More Effective Global Climate Treaty
- Increasing Participation and Compliance in International Climate Change Agreements
- Thirteen Plus One: A Comparison of Global Climate Policy Architectures
Policies
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Kyoto Protocol
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: The First Ten Years
- The Economics of Climate Policy
IFPRI resources on climate change
Useful links
- Understanding the vital links between water and climate change
- World Bank 2010 World Development Report: Development and Climate Change
- Global Environment Facility
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- United Nations Environment Programme
- ODI-IFAD project briefing: Closing the gap between climate adaptation and poverty reduction frameworks
- Development marketplace 2009 grant competition on "climate adaptation"
- Climate change and the future of smallholder agriculture: How can rural poor people be a part of the solution to climate change?
- Climate change: building the resilience of poor rural communities
Arabic | English | French | Spanish - IFAD/GEF partnership
on climate change: Fighting a global challenge at the local level (Factsheet) - Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change
- Human Development Report 2007-2008: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world
- Overseas Development Institute (ODI): Climate Change
- European Union: how to control climate change
- National Geographic: Global warming effects (map)
- Alliance for climate protection