Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty
IFAD's South-South Cooperation business model
- South-South cooperation in IFAD’s business model (PDF) | Powerpoint presentation (2011)
- South-south cooperation in IFAD's operating model (2010)
Speeches and keynote addresses
Blogs and stories
- Leveraging South-South Cooperation
- South-South Cooperation a must to add momentum to poverty reduction efforts
- South South: China’s experience as a development model
- Terra Madre: A unique example of South-South Cooperation
- International Day for South-South Cooperation
Videos
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.
What happens when small holder farmers from different parts of the developing world share their knowledge and experience? Four farmer couples, (husbands and wives), from Oases in Morocco spent six months living with oasis farmers in Mauritania who were struggling to survive. This short video looks at what happened.
Eighty per cent of Bangladesh lies on a floodplain less than 5 metres above sea level. As sea levels rise and seasonal storms become more severe, millions of farmers living along the country's southern coast could lose their land and livelihoods, putting the entire country's food security at risk. Fighting against time, six branches of government and international donors work together to help farmers adapt.
It's been 20 years since the fall of the Soviet Union, yet Moldova continues to struggle economically generating 30 per cent of its GDP from money sent back by the 25 per cent of the population that has left to work abroad. According to a recent report published by the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family about 15,000 children are now living in the country without parental care. Despite this dire situation, one hope for job creation now comes from the agriculture sector where investments in small and medium size businesses are starting to pay off.
The North-East of Brazil is the most densely populated semi-arid region in the world. Low, erratic rainfall and cyclic droughts make farming difficult. For generations, farmers have resorted to excessive use of chemicals and slash and burn agriculture, stripping the soil of nutrients. Now farmers like Irupuan Gomes are trying something new. He is using bush management techniques to rehabilitate the natural ecosystem. Not only is the environment healthier -- but so are his profits.