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Livestock feed enhancement  - 13 December 2011  - Innovation, scaling out and market development: Fodder adoption project synthesis report
The ONE Blog – 12 December 2011 - What can Canada do RIGHT NOW to help reduce rural poverty and malnutrition?
CIRAD – 6 December 2011 - The World Agriculture Watch initiative is up and running
NewsBlaze – 6 December 2011 - Food Security and Climate Change Inextricably Linked
IPS – 5 December 2011 - Q&A: Time for a New Agricultural Revolution
MyNewsDesk - 2 December 2011 - UK hails new aid partnership with emerging powers
United Nations - 2 December 2011 - UN official underlines link between food security and climate change
Orissadiary.com - 30 November 2011 - Centre adjudged Odisha as best for uplift of tribal lives
The Daily Star - 24 November 2011 - Highlight rural issues in media
Vanguard - 22 November 2011 - IFAD appeals to Niger Delta govs on funding
CPI Financial - 21 November 2011 - $9.1 million IFAD grant to boost fisheries sector in Yemen
Agencia Mexicana de Noticias - 21 November 2011 - Usan familias de inmigrantes remesas para necesidades básicas: FIDA
East African Business Week - 20 November 2011 - EA could benefit from IFAD's $600m agric fund Global vaccine ethics and policy - 21 November 2011 - Sweden releases assessments of multilateral organisations: GAVI, UNICEF
PIA - 16 November 2011 - Int'l Fund for Agricultural Dev't mission visits Eastern Visayas
CNN - 18 November 2011 - Satellites show future of eco-endeavors
Sun Star Network – 17 November 2011 - IFAD-released loans reach P102 million (The Philippines)
M2 Presswire - 17 November 2011 - Public, private and civil society partners meet at IFAD to challenge the diaspora to invest back hom
Microfinance Focus - 14 November 2011 - Agricultural cooperatives are key to reducing hunger and poverty
The Hindu - 13 November 2011 - Let's make climate change talks inclusive
Zawya.com - 13 November 2011 - Large-scale farming projects: boosting co-operation between Tunisia and IFAD
Kathmandu Post - 11 November 2011 - Hungry mouths
Agrarisch Dagblad - 10 November 2011 - Nwanze prijst Nederlandse ontwikkelingshulp (Nwanze praises Dutch development)
Wall Street Journal - 9 November 2011 - Berlusconi pledges to step down
Climate Change Policy and Practice - 7 November 2011 - IFAD to Meet with Dutch Ministry on Agricultural Responses to Climate Change
United Nations - 31 October 2011 - UN launches Year of Cooperatives with spotlight on development
Common Dreams - 31 October 2011 - Regulating the Rush for Land
Centre d'Actualités de l'ONU - 27 October 2011 - Ban Ki-moon appelle à renforcer la lutte contre la faim
All Africa - 27 October 2011 - Who will feed the 7 billionth person?
World Challenge (BBC / Newsweek) - 21 October 2011 - Africa's small farmers - a change of thinking - blogpost by Mohamed Beavogui
ENEA Web TV - 25 October 2011 - Educarsi al futuro a Share Fair (video)
ElectroIQ - 26 October 2011 - Treat farmers like enterpreneurs
IDN - 26 October 2011 - Small is Big for Nicaragua's Rural Poor
Biodiversity Policy & Practice - 26 October 2011 - IFAD's Strategic Framework Responds to Persistent Problems and Major Changes
The Citizen - 25 October 2011 - Youth are the real engines of development
Xinhua - 25 October 2011 - Les pays de la COI cherchent à améliorer leurs rendements agricoles
US News Las Vegas - 25 October 2011 - NIA eyes restoration of 60 communal irrigation systems in 15 Antique towns
USC Canada - 20 October 2011 - Reports from Rome: Small Farmers Take Centre Stage
Sun Star Network - 20 October 2011 - Agri usec impressed by IFAD learning market
The Nigerial Observer - 18 October 2011 - IFAD Introduces Complimentry Diet For Babies
United Nations - 18 October 2011 - UN agencies commit to put rural women at centre stage of development
VOA News - 17 October 2011 - UN World Food Security Committee Meets in Rome
MercoPress - 17 October 2011 - Every day a billion people go to sleep feeling hungry, recalls UN on Food Day
EITB - 16 October 2011 - Today: World Food Day
Sun Star Network - 12 October 2011 - Women in the Cordillera highlands: Seed keepers, life keepers...
Daily Trust - 11 October 2011 - Nigeria: RUFIN Targets Two Million Disadvantaged Farmers
La Gazette de la Grand Ile - 11 October 2011 - Filière oignon: Miser sur 600 tonnes dans le Menabe
AllAfrica - 06 October - Benin: Global Youth Innovation Network to Be Launched
Art for AIDS International Blog - 5 October 2011 - Art for AIDS and North Star Alliance Exhibit at the Global Agri-Knowledge Share Fair
iPolitics - 5 October 2011 - Bev Oda: ‘Making a pledge is not enough’
INAFI - 4 October 2011 - INAFI International Implements a User-Owned, Low Cost Remittance Service
International Trade Forum - 1 October 2011 - Closing the gender gap in rural development
ReliefWeb - 30 September 2011 - IFAD loan of US$40.2 million to alleviate rural poverty in Pakistan
NewsBlaze - 30 September 2011 - Vulnerable Rwandans Set to Benefit From $39M UN Farm Loans and Grants
Rwanda New Times - 29 September 2011 - IFAD commends countrys use of aid
US News Las Vegas - 28 September 2011 - Knowledge share on agricultural achievements is strategy for survival: IFAD chief
Süddeutsche Zeitung - 28 September 2011 - 'Alle haben versagt' - UN-Experte: Hungersnöte könnten verhindert werden (All have failed '- UN expert: famines could be prevented)
Xinhua News Agency - 27 September 2011 - Knowledge share on agricultural achievements is strategy for survival: IFAD chief
United Nations Multimedia - 27 September 2011 - Proyecto del FIDA mejorará la vida de miles de nicaragüenses
Star Africa - 26 September 2011 - Investing in agriculture is the best way to prevent famines in Africa / IFAD President to held Virtu
WRI - 26 September 2011 - Outgrower Systems Hold Promise for Smallholder African Farmers
Vietnam Business Forum - 26 September 2011 - IFAD- A Helping Hand to Poverty Reduction in Vietnam
Viva Paraguay – 20 September 2011 - Paraguay rural apoya a organizaciones campesinas de concepción
Nigeria Punch - 20 September - 2011 - Edo pays counterpart funds for projects
Sunday Observer - 18 September 2011- Pipe-borne water for Jaffna and Kilinochchi for first time
Sun Star Network - 16 September 2011 - 58 businessmen avail loan packages
International News Network - 12 September 2011 - PPAF offers equity fund to Microfinance institutions
The Independent - 5 September 2011 - IFAD, Government Boost Microfinance Institutions
Daily Trust - 2 September 2011 - FG agric intervention yields results in Kwara
ZNet - 4 September 2011 - Esther Vivas: Less Land, More Hunger
ARKA News Agency - 1 September 2011 - President Sargsyan says rurarl communities and agri?ulture make basis of country's development
Meat Trade News Daily – 28 August 2011 - EU - More grain production required
Afrique En Ligne - 25 August 2011 - Africa: IFAD president says Africa needs tools to feed its population
The Tide - 24 August 2011 - IFAD Down-sizes Projects In Rivers
In These Times - 23 August 2011 - Global Land Grab
Vanguard - 23 August 2011 - IFAD recommends Community-Driven Development approach toward poverty
Xinhua News Agency - 22 August 2011 - Nigerian transformation agenda will develop agric sector, boost economy: IFAD
Vanguard - 21 August 2011 - Nigeria vulnerable to food crisis – IFAD President
Daily Independent / AllAfrica - 19 August 2011 - Nigeria: FG Loses U.S.$43 Million for Non-Signing of Agreement With IFAD
Vanguard – 16 August 2011 - We Will End Rice Import Before 2015 - Jonathan
The Nigerian Observer – 17 August 2011 - Lack Of Access Road Threatens IFAD Assisted Projects In Abia
Daily Trust (Nigeria) – 16 August – 2011 - IFAD Supports Govt's Agric Transformation Agenda With U.S.$75 Million
APA News – 14 August 2011 - IFAD president on four-day visit to Nigeria
iGovernment – 12 August 2011 - IFAD plans Rs 240 Cr agro project in Jharkhand (India)
The Telegraph (Calcutta) – 10 August 2011 - UN agency push for tribal livelihood: IFAD to invest Rs 240 crore in state
Leadership – 9 August 2011 - 'FG, IFAD to Expand Seedling , Fertiliser Production in Kebbi'
The Guardian (Nigeria) – 9 August 2011 - IFAD commends Ondo govt for commitment to agric development
The Daily Star – 8 August 2011 - Indigenous issue draws arguments
Afrique Avenir – 6 August 2011 - Nigerian Agriculture minister hails IFAD’s value chain initiative
The Tide (Nigeria) – 5 August 2011 - ‘Non-Payment Of Counterpart Funds Hampers IFAD Programmes’
The Guardian Nigeria – 4 August 2011 - Govt, agencies unfold plan for agribusiness development
AlertNet – 3 August 2011 - Dare We Say Information is Beautiful
The Guardian – 2 August 2011 -  Growing economic powers reinvigorate south-south co-operation 
China Daily – 27 July 2011 - IFAD praises small-scale female farmers - Interview with President Nwanze
The Guardian – 27 July 2011 - 'Africa can feed the world'
July 2011 - International corporate land grab underway
NACS Online – 26 July 2011 - Food Prices to Stay High
The New Vision – 18 July 2011 - How prepared are we should drought hit in 2015? - opinion by Kevin Cleaver, Associate Vice President IFAD
The Telegraph Calcutta – 15 July 2011 - Focus on rural livelihood
El Argentino – 10 July 2011 - El Estado ayuda a productores afectados por las cenizas
BNamericas.com – 6 July 2011 - IFAD sees remittances to LAC growing 4-5% this year
This Day – 6 July 2011 - Jonathan Sees Agriculture as Economic Booster
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) – 30 June 2011 -  GEF Highlights Climate and Biodiversity Benefits of Peatland Rehabilitation Project
El Comercial – 3 July 2011 -El presidente del FIDA llega a Chaco a verificar programas
La Nacion – 2 July 2011 - La agricultura familiar, clave para salir de la pobreza - Opinion by IFAD's President Kanayo Nwanze
Al-Arabiya – 29 June 2011 - For battling poverty and hunger, rural agriculture is way forward
AME Info (United Arab Emirates) – 29 June 2011 - IFAD presents findings of Rural Poverty Report prior to the Islamic Development Bank annual meeting
All Voices – 29 June 2011 - Canada Could Punch Above its Weight in Multilateral Policy Shift
Gulf Times – 28 June 2011 - Arab World: Region still reliant on imports for food needs
UN News Centre – 28 June 2011 - Rural Azerbaijanis to receive boost from UN loan agreement
ABC TV Australia – 26 June 2011 - The Future of Food
Relief Web – 24 June 2011- The European Commission and the UN agencies team up to fight food insecurity
All Voices – 24 June 2011 - Smart farmers urged to share techniques
The Broker Online – 25 June 2011 - G20 and rural poverty
Nigeria Guardian - 23 June 2011  - IFAD embarks on capacity building scheme for agric sector
UN News Centre – 21 June 2011 - UN official cautions against reducing assistance to smallholder farmers
Poten & Partners – 20 June 2011 - Azerbaijan to sign loan agreement
Gold Star Daily – 18 June 2011 - IFAD team visits Caraga for project design mission
Radio Vaticana – 17 June 2011 - La Giornata di lotta alla desertificazione, fenomeno che colpisce 100 Paesi
Los Angeles Business – 17 June 2011 - OFID Governing Board Aprroves New Loans and Grants for Africa
IDN Global News  - 16 June 2011 - Focus on Smallholder Farmers Vital
The Punch – 16 June 2011 - IFAD to inject $75m into new agric programme
MakingItMagazine.net – 14 June 2011 - Feeding a crowded world
Antique's Irrigation Systems To Undergo Repair & Rehab
ICARDA Weblog – 13 June 2011 - Country strategies to fight wheat rust
Environmental Finance – 13 June 2011 - Dump biofuels subsidies to stabilise food prices – report
The Reporter (Ethiopia) – 11 June 2011 - IFAD, Ethiopia to sign USD 220 mln loan accord for agricultural development
AllAfrica – 6 June - 'To Eradicate Hunger, Treat Small Farms as Business' - Interview with President Nwanze from the World Economic Forum
The Guardian - Poverty matters blog – 1 June 2011 - Global food crisis: Smallholder agriculture can be good for the poor and for the planet - blogpost by Elwyn Grainger-Jones
Relief Web – 1June 2011 - Fuel an "evergreen revolution" by rapid scale up of policy support and investments in sustainable smallholder agriculture
Think Forward – 4 June 2011 - Agroecology comes to Capitol Hill
El Pais - 3 June 2011- Poco productor para atajar el hambre
Times of Zambia – 31 May 2011 -Small-scale farmers key, says IFAD
Humanitarian News blogs – 29 May 2011 - IFAD Evaluation Committee begins official visit to Brazil
WRI - Next Billion (blog) – 26 May 2011 - The Smallholder Farmer is the Base of the Pyramid - blog post by Kevin Keepper
Nourishing the Planet (blog) – 26 May 2011 - Scaling Up Can't Wait: How to speed up investments in sustainable intensification of agriculture
Blogal Prosperity by the Center for Global Prosperity - 25 May 2011 - Remittances and Development: Two peas in a pod
Poverty News Blog - 24 May 2011 - Another reason to improve small farm output
United Nations News Centre – 23 May 2011 - UN agency gives grant and loan to help farmers in rural Chad
Daily Nation - 21 March 2011 - Youth irrigation project to be started
The Tide Online (Nigeria) - 20 May 2011 - IFAD Hands Over Farms To Bonny Communities
Viewchange.org - 20 May 2011 - Video of the Week: Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
Geoplace – 19 May 2011 - GAF completes work in Western Madagascar
United Nations – 17 May 2011 - UN and United States launch plan tap emigrants' resources to boost agriculture
The Swazi Observer – 17 May 2011 - Majozi calls for Development Fund
ReliefWeb – 16 May 2011 - IFAD, U.S. Department of State to mobilize migrant investments for rural poverty reduction and food
Jyoti Communication – 16 May 2011 - T&T ready to embrace ICT revolution, PM says in message on World Telecommunications Day
Food and Agriculture Organization – 12 May 2011 - FAO head warns on land-grabbing
MicroCapital.org – 10 May 2011 - Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) Releases “2010 Sub-Saharan Microfinance Analysis and Benchma
The Hill (blog) – 6 May 2011 - "We must act now on food security" - Remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome
About Meghalaya (blog) – 4 May 2011 - NERCORMP model best way to solve economic condition: Sangma
Le Soleil – 2 May 2011 - Développement local : Mieux prendre en compte le potentiel de la biodiversité
EFE Agro – 27 April 2011 - FIDA cree que agricultura debe ser pilar para crecer en países en desarrollo
Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperaciòn – 26 April 2011 - Trinidad Jiménez meets with the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development
Daily Independent – 27 April 2011 - IFAD assists Ebonyi in cassava production
Diario Público – 27 April 2011 - "Los jóvenes son el futuro del campo" - Interview with President Nwanze
ILRI clippings – 27 April 2011 - Reducing hunger and poverty through goat ‘value chains’ in India and Mozambique
La Moncloa - Gobierno de España – 26 April 2011 - President Zapatero receives President of IFAD at Moncloa Palace
Red Orbit – 24 April 2011 - Rural Development Gets Help From The Sky
Alsiasi.com – 20 April 2011 - Wrath of the Rural Poor
Omidyar Network – 19 April 2011 - The International Land Coalition Launches www.landportal.info, the First Online Gateway to Information
World Bank blog – 19 April 2011 - Delivering in the remotest islands: Tikopia
Nourishing the planet – blog – 19 April 2011 - Opportunity or Adversity? IDS Conference on the Global Land Grab Trend
On line opinion - Australia's e-journal of social and political debate - 19 April 2011 - Seven steps to prevent recurring food crises
Friends of the Earth International – 16 April 2011 - There can be no justifications for land grabbing!
Swazi Observer – 12 April 2011 - IFAD chief tours LUSIP projects
The New Times – 10 April 2011 - U.S.$40 Billion Remittances By African Migrants to Help Reduce Poverty - Report
The News International – 11 April 2011 - PPAF and PMN ink agreement to develop micro-finance sector
Armenpress – 6 April 2011 - IFAD to launch new program in Syunik
Portail femme – 5 April 2011 - Agadir : Débat sur le projet «KariaNet»
Syrian Arab News Agency – 5 April 2011 - ACSAD, IFAD discuss new development programs
NewsBlaze – 6 April 2011 - UN and Bolivia Collaborate to Alleviate Poverty
Midi Madagasikara – 4 April 2011 - Projet AROPA : Relance de la culture de pommes de terre
The Standard – 4 April 2011 - State told to support rural farmers
Punch – 1 April 2011 - Abia gets ultimatum over IFAD-assisted programme
NewsBlaze – 1 April 2011 - UN Allocates $7.5M for Poverty Reduction Project in Grenada
Unione Postale – 30 March 2011 - Beating poverty with remittances (Interview with the President)
United Nations – 30 March 2011 - Grenada: UN rural development agency funds poverty reduction project
World Bank 30 March 2011 - Fighting Poverty in Our Villages
The Daily Observer – 30 March 2011 - Central River Region's Farmers Trained On Livestock, Horticultural Production Sun Star Network – 30 March 2011 - IFAD ends SIS mission for Charm-2
Structural Engineer Magazine – 29 March 2011 - Institute awards first LEED-Gold building certification in Rome
Next – 30 March 2011 - Group decries payment delay by commission
Minivan News – 26 March 2011 - Value chain cooperatives to be formed for fisheries and agriculture
United Nations – 24 March 2011 - Head of UN rural development agency set to offer help on visit to drought-hit Kenya
Champion Newspapers – 23 March 2011 - FG lures youths into agriculture
Ag For News – 21 March 2011 - Agroforestry Rehabilitating Degraded Land Church World Service – 18 March 2011 - Women, Agriculture, Climate and Food Sovereignty a topic at Ecumenical Advocacy Days
France24 - 17 March 2011 - Japan in race to restart Fukushima cooling systems
BBC - 18 March 2011 - UN backs action against Gaddafi
AGI – 16 March 2011 - IFAD Stimulates Moroccan Agriculture with $40 million
Zawya - 15 March 2011 - US$23 million loan from IFAD to alleviate rural poverty and boost Morocco's Taza mountain zones econ
Westender - 14 March 2011 - A win for biodiversity:Indonesia First Developing Country to Contribute to Crop Benefit Sharing Fund Wall Street Journal - 14 March 2011 - Buoyed by Recovery, Migrants Send Home More Money
Treasury Department - 9 March 2011 - Written testimony of Secretary Timothy F. Geithner
Gulf News – 9 March 2011 - Encouraging entrepreneurship in rural areas
The Hindu – 9 March 2011 - Kudumbasree ventures leave foreign experts awestruck
ADN Kronos – 8 March 2011 - A Roma 400 giovani da tutto il mondo vestono i panni dei delegati delle Nazioni Unite
BBC - 7 March 2011 - Chocolate boost for Sao Tome farmers
Blog: Labor is Not a Commodity - 7 March 2011 - Celebrating the 100th International Women’s Day
Tablelands Advertiser (Australia) – 4 March 2011 - Tropical agri-forum to consider future
Relief Web – 3 March 2011 - Civil Society Speakers in Women's Commission Say Girls Suffer Severe Gender Discrimination and Abuse
Seychelles Nation (France) – 3 March 2011 - Seychelles to get agriculture fund help once again
EFE Ingles – 1 March 2011 - IFAD gives Mexico development loan
La Prospérité (Kinshasa) – 1 March 2011 - Congo-Kinshasa: Fida, Opep et le Gouvernement initient le PIRAM
New Europe – 28 February 2011 - Spain creates new food security fund
IPSA @ Wagner – 28 February 2011 - Gender and Trade: Let’s move the conversation forward
The Economist – 26 February 2011 - A special report on feeding the world: Waste not, want not
SeeNews – 24 February 2011 - IFAD Supports Moldova's Farm Sector with $19.8 Mln Financial Aid
This Day – 24 February 2011 - Nigeria: Poverty Reduction - IFAD Advocates Rural Youth Investment
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy – 23 February 2011 -
Indigenous Peoples Have a New Forum Now
Akwa Ibom withholds community development funds
Gulf News – 18 February 2011 - Haya to address IFAD meeting WFP – 17 February 2011 - HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein Visits WFP And IFAD Project Sites In Cambodia
Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources – 17 February 2011 - Welcoming Remarks Of The IFAD President At Workshop Establishing Indigenous People's Forum
AllAfrica / Leadership – 15 February 2011 - NAPEP, South Korea to Establish Cassava Processing Centres
The Nation - 11 February 2011 - Minister wants 15% budgetary allocation to agric sector (Nigeria)
AGP - 10 February 2011 - L’IGAD va prendre le relais du PDAR dans la province du Woleu-Ntem
The Science Office at the French Consulate in San Francisco - 8 February 2011 - A group from Berkeley is working with the French-American NGO blueEnergy
United Nations - 7 February 2011 - UN rural development fund notes progress in its gender equality objectives
Lankapuvath - 3 February 2011 - Water Supply and Sanitation Projects for in Jaffna and Kilinochchi
World Bank - 1 Febraury 2011 - Remarks to the African Union Summit: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
WWF - 30 January 2011 - Four Himalayan nations to develop climate change adaptation plan
Vanguard - 27 January 2010 - A/Ibom Govt to train 1,200 farmers
IFOAM - 25 January 2011 - IFAD Conference on New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture 24-25 January 2011 in Rome, Italy
Daily Nation – 23 January 2011 - UN roots for women’s greater role in economy
Radio formula – 19 January 2011 - Conforman UNAM, Sagarpa y empresarios grupo contra pobreza rural InterAction – 18 January 2011 - Best Practices and Innovations (BPI) Initiative Announces Round 3
Panay News – 18 January 2011 - Rapid Seed Supply Financing Project’s 2nd phase underway
CNN – 17 January 2011 - Poor man's food no more
Climate Action – 12 January 2011 - Rodney Cooke, Director, Technical Advisory Division, International Fund for Agriculture Development (video)
Poverty News Blog – 10 January 2011 - "Impact Investing" investments to ease social and environmental ills... and to make money
Nourishing the Planet (Worldwatch Institute blog) - 7 January 2011 - A Dynamic Duo: Collaborating Between the Public and Private Sectors

Yemen Observer – 3 January 2011 - IFAD allots $ 30 mln to study fish stocks in Yemen
Ecologie.tv – 2 January 2011 - Le Rapport sur la Pauvreté Rurale 2011