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New Spanish-language publication examines the role of gender in IFAD’s projects
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New approaches to youth emerge from Colombia dialogue
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Market access conference in Guatemala generates new opportunities
Leading trends in developing pro-poor business models with the private sector
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How far can a simple peanut take you?
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Emerging economic powerhouses meet in Brazil to discuss future of family farming
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Building pro-poor policies for Latin America and the rest of the world
By Josefina Stubbs
If we are ever going to win this battle against rural poverty, we need policy dialogue that actively empowers the poor rural people of this world to take the reigns of their own destiny. It is key to fostering a healthy society and an essential ingredient for the advance of humanity.
As we saw during this November’s MERCOSUR Regional Specialized Meeting on Family Farming (REAF) in Brasilia – where Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay agreed to follow Brazil’s national policy of buying 30 percent of the food used in public institutions
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Putting youth first
For ages, poets and priests, philosophers and revolutionaries have set their sights on defining the needs, wants, passions and prerogatives of youth. Rubén Darío, the Nicaraguan poet and father of literary
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IFAD launches Rural Poverty Report 2011
Across Latin America and the Caribbean the numbers behind rural poverty provide an unexpected glimpse into the reality that faces poor rural people everyday.
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Outlooks
By Gregory Benchwick and Iván Cossío
It was Rosa de Jesus’ smile – an ever-ascending crescent of hope and gratitude – that sealed the deal. Yes, the work of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Brazil’s poor and disenfranchised North-East state of Bahia was having a positive impact.
After all, Rosa didn’t have direct access to drinking water until we co-financed a project that built a rooftop water collection system on her well-kept cinder-block bungalow. And in an area that receives between 500 and 800mm of rain a year, water is life. No wonder Rosa was smiling.
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