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  • Experiencias del FIDA sobre escalonamiento en Perú, Estudio de caso y esquema analítico
    Español
  • Addressing poverty through mobilization of community resources
    English
  • Rural Territorial Dynamics Program – Final Report 2007-2012
    English | Spanish
  • Livestock and renewable energy
    English
  • Livestock and renewable energy
    English
  • Microinsurance product development for microfinance providers
    English
  • Process mapping for microinsurance operations: A toolkit for understanding and improving business processes and client value
    English
  • Growing peace through development
    English | French | Spanish
  • Gender equality and women’s empowerment
    Arabic | English | French | Spanish
  • Factsheet on gender equality and women’s empowerment (2012)
    English
    10 points for a strategic approach to partnering with the private sector
    English
  • Matching grants - technical note
    English

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Video productions


In this episode of Hungry Planet: In Syria's neighbouring countries, food vouchers help refugees keep hunger at bay. After decades of excessive logging and reduced water flow, Mount Kenya is becoming green again. And a new plant breeding technique helps farmers in the high Andes of Peru.

In The Gambia, women often farm on degraded, unproductive land. The more fertile land is usually reserved for men. But things are changing. A government project is using simple technologies to reclaim degraded, swampy and unproductive land. 34000 hectares of land have already been reclaimed. Now, women like Awa Jagne - who used to battle to feed her children - can produce enough rice to support her family throughout the year.


Every year, one and half million people leave The Philippines to find jobs overseas and send home more than US$20 billion a year. But little of that money is saved or invested. In Mabini - known as "Little Italy" due to the number of people now living there, many big houses have been built - but most are empty. The owners cannot afford to come home. Now a financial education programme is encouraging Filipino workers abroad to invest in agricultural cooperatives in The Philippines - not only giving them a regular income, but also revitalising agriculture and creating jobs back home.


Fatou Danso is a farmer...but she is also The Gambia's first female village chief. Fatou has introduced many other firsts to her village. The land here was once only farmed by men. But now Fatou has distributed the land to women - and together they have formed a vegetable garden scheme. Now these women can support their husbands with what they earn from selling their produce at the market.


In This Episode of Hungry Planet: Three reports on agricultural cooperatives, a key to food security. In Guatemala, farmers making a living from small plots of land struggle to produce bigger crops, become better connected to markets and earn more money. In Afghanistan, as foreign troops prepare to leave, an unexpected kind of peace building is taking place thanks to the rise in dairy cooperatives. In Southern Niger, agricultural cooperatives gain access to better seeds and better farming techniques to fight the region's severe droughts.


After decades of excessive logging and reduced water flow, Mount Kenya is becoming green again. Thanks to a government pilot project financed by IFAD, thousands of primary school children have been planting seedlings in school yards and teaching grownups at home about the importance of trees.


Burundi's civil war may have ended more than a decade ago, but violence in the country continues. Many of its victims are women, whose rights under the law are often ignored. Now a unique legal aid programme is helping thousands of women in the remotest parts of the county, like Maura Ntukamazina, learn about the law and reclaim their rights.


In this episode of Hungry Planet: A technique for intensifying rice production in Madagascar more than doubles farmers' yields; the formation of responsible fishing cooperatives in Morocco offers new opportunities to fishermen; In Yemen, Civil unrest and waves of violence leave families struggling as food and fuel prices rise.


Events and meetings

  • 2 October: 73rd session of the Evaluation Committee
  • 22 October: Meeting with Convenors and Friends
  • 19 November: 125th session of the Audit Committee
  • 20 November: Fifth meeting of Convenors and Friends
  • 21-22 November: 74th session of the Evaluation Committee

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