IFAD to present new paper on sustainable smallholder farming

Rome, 6 June 2012 – With the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development only two weeks away, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will launch a paper on how to make agriculture climate-smart for the developing world’s 500 million small farms at an event at its Rome headquarters this week.

Climate change is transforming the context of rural development, changing physical and socio-economic landscapes and raising additional challenges for smallholders all around the world.

The paper Climate-smart smallholder agriculture: What’s different? highlights necessary major changes in policy and practice to support rural women and men to adapt to the changing environment.

WHEN:	Friday, 8 June 2012   - 3 p.m. – 4.15 p.m.
WHERE:	International Fund for Agricultural Development Via Paolo di Dono, 44 00142, Rome (near metro Laurentina) The event will also be webcast
WHO	Carlos Seré, Chief Development Strategist, IFAD Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Environment and Climate Director, IFAD Michele de Nevers, Visiting Program Associate, Center for Global Development

 

Journalists wishing to attend are requested to confirm their participation by sending an email to: IFADnewsroom@ifad.org.

Please contact Jeff Brez at J.Brez@ifad.org to request an advance copy of the paper in Arabic, French, English or Spanish.

The IFAD social reporting team will report live from the event. Follow them on Twitter and Facebook.

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Media Alert No: IFAD/06/2012

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) works with poor rural people to enable them to grow and sell more food, increase their incomes and determine the direction of their own lives. Since 1978, IFAD has invested almost US$14 billion in grants and low-interest loans to developing countries through projects empowering about 400 million people to break out of poverty, thereby helping to create vibrant rural communities. IFAD is an international financial institution and a specialized UN agency based in Rome – the United Nations’ food and agriculture hub. It is a unique partnership of 168 members from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), other developing countries and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).