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This programme bolsters Djibouti’s climate adaptation and resilience by bridging multiple sectors, including fisheries, rural development and gender. This required considered coordination and communication among diverse stakeholders.

This project introduced a range of renewable energy technologies to enhance the lives of rural people. Biogas digesters were coupled with latrines and slurry storage was developed. Sustainable bio slurry will replace chemical fertilizers, allowing households to save money and consume healthier foods. Biogas digesters also alleviate burdens on women and reduce deforestation.

This project established a Natural Resources Governance Framework which enables communities to manage their natural resources sustainably and reduce conflicts between settled farmers and pastoralists.

PROSUL introduced innovations across various value chains, including technology for vegetable production and improved cassava varieties. Moreover, the project built climate-resilient infrastructure, such as irrigation systems, multifunctional boreholes and cattle fairs.

The project introduced various innovations, including tidal irrigation for rice production, village gardens to grow fruits and vegetables, roads to improve market access, soil and water conservation and ecosystem restoration, such as agroforestry and mangrove planting.

يُظهر تقرير العمل المناخي 2022 أن الصندوق في موقع فريد للتصدي لتحديات اليوم. فمع خبرة تزيد عن 40 سنة من التركيز حصرا على بناء المجتمعات المحلية الريفية القادرة على الصمود، يوفر الصندوق آليات وحلولا مالية مبتكرة يمكنها المساعدة على بناء مستقبل أكثر استدامة من خلال توجيه التمويل المناخي إلى صغار المنتجين. 

تعد خسائر ما بعد الحصاد أحد أكبر مصادر عدم كفاءة الإنتاج الزراعي في رواندا. ولمواجهة هذا الأمر، كان مشروع مساندة أنشطة الأعمال الزراعية وما بعد الحصاد القادرة على الصمود في وجه المناخ رائدا في نموذج الخدمات المناخية المتكاملة التشاركية لأغراض الزراعة الذي يجمع بين بيانات الطقس ومعرفة المزارعين من أجل تعزيز عملية صنع القرار لديهم. 

نيكاراغوا هي من بين البلدان العشرة الأكثر عرضة لظواهر الطقس المتطرفة على الصعيد العالمي. وتهدد الزيادات في درجات الحرارة إنتاج البن والكاكاو، اللذين يمثلان جزءا كبيرا من العمالة في المناطق الريفية في نيكاراغوا. 

تلخص هذه الورقة التقنية الخبرات المكتسبة والدروس المستفادة من خدمات المعلومات المناخية، بما في ذلك من برنامج التأقلم لصالح زراعة أصحاب الحيازات الصغيرة في الصندوق. 

نفّذ برنامج الخدمات الزراعية المعنية بالابتكارات، والقدرة على الصمود، والإرشاد نهجا مدفوعا بالطلب في خدمات الإرشاد الزراعي، معززا الابتكار من خلال سياسات واستراتيجيات جديدة.

جرّب برنامج التأقلم لصالح زراعة أصحاب الحيازات الصغيرة الخرائط الناطقة في بوليفيا. وقد جمعت هذه الأداة المبتكرة بين العلوم والمعرفة المجتمعية التقليدية لتحديد المسائل الرئيسية وأولويات التكيف، مانحة الشعوب الأصلية والنساء والشباب صوتا في صنع القرار.  

مكّن هذا البرنامج المجتمعات المحلية وعزز الممارسات الأكثر استدامة لإدارة المراعي من أجل استخدام أكثر مسؤولية للمراعي. 

سعيا وراء تحقيق التنمية الريفية المستدامة، عزز المشروع السكان الريفيين، ومكنهم من إنشاء اتحادات لمستخدمي المراعي ووضع خطط مجتمعية لإدارة مراعي الماشية لمعالجة تدهور موارد المراعي.  

عمّم المشروع خطط التنمية الاجتماعية والاقتصادية المستنيرة مناخيا في محافظتين.

يشارك هذا الموجز نتائج والدروس المستفادة من المرحلة الأولى من برنامج  التأمين من أجل القدرة الريفية على الصمود والتنمية الاقتصادية.

تجد هذه الورقة أن الاستثمار في النساء الريفيات يساعد على تحقيق الأهداف المناخية، والتصدي للفقر وعدم المساواة بين الجنسين في نفس الوقت. 

ترسم خريطة الأدلة والفجوات هذه دراسات بشأن فعالية التدخلات من أجل توظيف الشباب في البلدان النامية في سياق تغير المناخ والصراعات والأزمات، وهو ما يوضح المجالات التي تتوافر فيها الأدلة والمجالات التي تفتقر إليها.

IFAD’s INSURED programme has been working with partners in Indonesia to improve the availability of climate risk insurance that enables farmers to strengthen their resilience. 

الإصدار الثالث من ميزة الصندوق ومرفق البيئة العالمية يسلط الضوء على مزايا الشراكة في مجالات متعددة، بما في ذلك النظم الغذائية، والتنوع البيولوجي والتكيف مع تغير المناخ وتدهور الأراضي.

يركز موجز السياسات على التحدي المتمثل في التنمية العادلة والمستدامة للجميع ويقترح قائمة مهام لوكالات التنمية المتعددة الأطراف ويحدد إمكانات الإصلاح

هذا التقرير هو دليل لتوجيه الاستثمارات من قبل الصندوق والمانحين الدوليين الآخرين في أعمال التخفيف من آثار تغير المناخ في منطقة شرق وجنوب أفريقيا.

INSURED هو برنامج مساعدة فنية يعمل على تعزيز التأمين الزراعي في حافظة الصندوق.

تعزز أنظمة الغذاء المرنة نهجا شاملا لتعزيز الإنتاجية الزراعية واستعادة المناظر الطبيعية المتدهورة في نظم الزراعة لأصحاب الحيازات الصغيرة. يعرض هذا التقرير إنجازات وابتكارات البرنامج في عام 2022 عبر 12 دولة في إفريقيا جنوب الصحراء.

النتائج والدروس المستفادة من مفاوضات اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة الإطارية بشأن تغير المناخ المتعلقة بعمل كورونيفيا المشترك بشأن الزراعة والأمن الغذائي، وسبيل المضي قدما بعد مؤتمر الأطراف السابع والعشرين في اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة الإطارية بشأن تغير المناخ  

تناقش هذه الورقة المتغيرات المناخية التي يجب جمعها ومن أي المصادر عند دمجها في تقييم الأثر.

تركز هذه الورقة على الأنشطة التي تستهدف تحسين إدارة المراعي ومصادر الأعلاف التكميلية وتطوير سلسلة قيمة الثروة الحيوانية.

This brochure provides an overview of ASAP+, which is expected to be the largest fund dedicated to channelling climate finance to small-scale producers.

تقدم هذه المذكرة لمحة عامة عن كيفية تصميم مشروعات الري التي يدعمها الصندوق وتوضح الخطوات اللازمة لتحقيق الإمكانات الكاملة لتنمية الري.

تقدم خريطة فجوة الأدلة (EGM) مشهدًا للدراسات حول فعالية تدخلات العلوم السلوكية في البلدان النامية في سياق تغير المناخ.

تقدم هذه الورقة مراجعة منهجية للتدخلات العلمية السلوكية في التنمية البشرية والمجالات البيئية في البلدان النامية.

تفحص هذه المراجعة التدخلات الفعالة في تعزيز النتائج البيئية والإنمائية للأفراد والأسر والمجتمعات والشركات ، ومدى فعالية الجهود المبذولة حتى الآن.

تفحص هذه المراجعة فعالية تدخلات علمية سلوكية محددة.

تصور خريطة فجوة الأدلة (EGM) المجالات التي تتركز فيها معظم الأبحاث حول التدخلات الفعالة لتمكين المرأة - وحيث توجد فجوات.

تقيم هذه المراجعة المنهجية فعالية برامج التدريب على المهارات الحياتية لتمكين المرأة في البلدان النامية.

تصف ورقة النهج هذه استراتيجية جمع البيانات وتحليلها وخطوط خريطة فجوة الأدلة والمراجعة المنهجية.

يفصل هذا البروتوكول للمراجعة المنهجية الطرق المستخدمة في تحليل ميتا

يصف هذا المنشور دراسات حالة الزراعة الذكية مناخياً في مصر وجورجيا ومولدوفا والصومال.

بعد COP27، يتطلع العالم إلى المفاوضات للحصول على إجابات للتحديات الحرجة في العالم.  

تناقش هذه الورقة الإجراءات الأكثر صلة بمهمة الصندوق المتمثلة في الاستثمار في سكان الريف، ومساعدتهم على بناء القدرة على الصمود في مواجهة تغير المناخ.  

تحدد هذه الورقة استراتيجية منهجية لدمج الطقس والظروف المناخية طويلة الأجل في تقييمات الأثر، استناداً إلى مشروع يدعمه الصندوق للاستثمار في تخزين الحبوب في تشاد.

Farm Radio International’s On Air Dialogues gathered the perspectives and experiences of rural people in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso as they contend with climate change. People responded to poll questions and left voice messages sharing their opinions on and experiences of climate change and what global leaders should do to help them adapt and prosper.

This paper defines gender sensitive as recognizing different roles of women, men, boys and girls, inequalities and gender power dynamics and trying to mitigate negative impacts in programme/action design.

This fourth edition of IFAD’s Climate Action Report does not restrict itself to reviewing the progress and results of the past year, but also situates these results within the larger context of IFAD's 11th Replenishment.

تطبق هذه الورقة إطارًا منهجيًا لدمج الطقس في الفترة الحالية والظروف المناخية طويلة الأجل في تقييمات الأثر.

This paper focuses primarily on climate resilience in the agriculture sector. If proven successful, this can be replicated in other resilience sectors such as water, forests and urban development to address shocks beyond climate. 

This briefing note summarizes the fiscal and financial instruments the public sector can use to support climate-smart small-scale farming. The overall focus is on using limited public funds more efficiently and amplifying impacts.

IFAD's unique investing position serves as a starting point for a discussion on how it might scale up and support gender-based responses for adaptation and mitigation to climate change.

Climate and conflict are linked, and this briefing note summarizes the evidence about the relationship between the two, what role climate finance can play in mitigating their risks, and where policy recommendations can be made to address the vulnerabilities created by both.

وللمساعدة على معالجة فقدان التنوع البيولوجي وتتبع مكاسب التنوع البيولوجي، اعتمد الصندوق مؤشرا أساسيا جديدا (حصيلة أساسية جديدة) للتنوع البيولوجي، 3-2-4: "تحسينات التنوع البيولوجي على مستوى النظم الإيكولوجي"، كجزء من استراتيجيته للتنوع البيولوجي للفترة 2022-2025.

وتشكل هذه الدراسة جزءا من خارطة طريق أوسع نطاقا لمواءمة باريس، والتي ستضمن أن الصندوق يمكن أن يلعب دورا رئيسيا في دعم البلدان في تحقيق خطط عملها المناخية في الزراعة صغيرة النطاق.

 

العمل بشكل وثيق مع المجتمعات المحلية هو طريقة فعالة لتنفيذ مشروعات تأمين شاملة. ويصدق هذا بشكل خاص على التأمين المستند إلى مؤشر، نظرا إلى أنه يجب على فرق المشروعات ضمان أن المفاهيم المعنوية المعقدة، مثل بيانات الأقمار الصناعية، وقيم المؤشرات الناجمة، مفهومة وملائمة بالنسبة للمزارعين. 

The Strategy and Knowledge Department (SKD) Learning Note #1 captures lessons about the design and supervision of Green Climate Fund (GCF) projects and lays out some possible recommendations, in order to build IFAD’s capacity and continue strengthening the partnership with GCF.

 

This How To Do Note provides guidance on building climate-resilient livelihoods through natural resources management.

Moving to a process that contributes to improving rather than endangering livelihoods is the challenge that climate change adaptation and resilience-building efforts currently face.

In this review, the role of farmed animals in circular food systems in the tropics is presented in four case studies.

تطبّق الزراعة الإيكولوجية مبادئ إيكولوجية على الزراعة وتضمن الاستخدام المتجدد للموارد الطبيعية وخدمات النظام الإيكولوجي، مع معالجة الحاجة لنظم غذائية منصفة اجتماعيا يمكن للأشخاص فيها اختيار ما يأكلونه وكيفية إنتاجه.

This article reviews how food system activities contribute to climate change and how dietary changes affect food systems. It shows that while emissions from food production are increasing in most regions, emissions from land use change are decreasing.

Resilient Food Systems (RFS) promotes a holistic approach to enhancing agricultural productivity and restoring degraded landscapes in smallholder farming systems. This report showcases the achievements and innovations of the programme across 12 countries in 2021.

The Agricultural Value Chains Development Programme (PADFA) seeks to improve post-harvest activities (packaging, storage, processing and marketing) for rice, vegetables, and mango in Côte d’Ivoire.

This  catalogue features innovative geospatial tools and real life case studies from IFAD’s operations, to give a flavour of how and where IFAD uses such technology. 

This brief describes how an IFAD-GEF project promotes sustainable peatland management, secure carbon stocks, and conservation of biodiversity, while improving the living standards of local communities.

Understanding market demand is a critical step in the process of developing solutions to meet the risk management needs of rural poor people, particularly with regard to insurance.

This report offers a consolidated analysis of pre-COVID food security and nutrition challenges across the Pacific Islands and outlines key actions needed to respond to the current impacts, inform medium- to long-term recovery planning, and better prepare for future crises.

The purpose of this strategy is to facilitate a more systematic, organized and generalized integration of the protection, sustainable use and promotion of biodiversity in IFAD operations.

This third edition of the IFAD Climate Action Report (CAR) describes the efforts that IFAD has made during the year to integrate climate change into every aspect of its plans and operations. 

This brief summarizes relevant findings from socio-legal analyses, combining the review of key legal and policy documents and literature on existing barriers to the recognition of women’s land rights.

This brief illustrates effective instruments that overcome barriers to investments and leverage existing policy tools and instruments to address sustainable financing in the AFOLU sector.

This study examines six projects, in three principal ecosystems of the region: a mountainous region, wetlands and a river delta.

تعرض هذه الورقة النتائج الرئيسية والدروس المستفادة من الحلول المستقاة من الطبيعة ، ولا سيما من حافظة برنامج التكيف لصالح زراعة أصحاب الحيازات الصغيرة (ASAP) في الصندوق ، لإلهام البرامج المستقبلية للوصول إلى نطاق أكبر في دعم التحول الريفي الشامل

With funding from ASAP2, eight Climate Risk Analysis reports were produced by the University of Cape Town, covering Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

This note offers practical guidance for IFAD staff, consultants and in-country partners for seeking FPIC in the design and implementation of IFAD-funded projects and programmes, in compliance with IFAD policies and procedures.

يعرض تقرير الصندوق الثاني عن ميزة التنوع البيولوجي خمسة مشروعات للصندوق تسلط الضوء على الأهمية الأساسية للتنوع البيولوجي في الزراعة.

IFAD’s technical assistance programme INSURED (Insurance for rural resilience and economic development) has been building knowledge about how to strengthen women producers’ access to climate risk insurance. 

بالشراكة مع ست محطات إذاعية في بوركينا فاسو وغانا وتنزانيا وأوغندا ، سألت Farm Radio International صغار المزارعين والبائعين معالجي الأغذية والمسوقين وغيرهم عن كيفية تغيير النظم الغذائية لتلبية احتياجاتهم واحتياجاتهم. مجتمعات.

Prototyping aims to gather direct feedback on the solution and the wider insurance scheme, incorporate changes before pilot testing, and make any additional adjustments before the official roll-out.

This report describes the findings of the country study carried out for the design of IFAD project on Livelihood and Productivity Enhancement of Smallholder Farmers (PROSPER) in Ghana.

This report describes the findings of the country study carried out for the design of IFAD Smallholder Agriculture Cluster Project (SACP) in Zimbabwe.

This report describes the findings of the country study carried out for the design of IFAD project on Restoration of Landscapes and Livelihoods (ROLL P) in Lesotho.

Collaboration with Local Companies for Adaptive Agriculture in Cambodia.

The 2020 Annual Report showcases the achievements and innovations of the RFS regional partners, country project teams and beneficiary communities across 12 targeted countries.

الأشخاص الذين ستلتقي بهم في هذا الكتاب هم جميعًا مشاركين في مشروعات الصندوق الدولي للتنمية الزراعية، وينتمون إلى بعض أكثر مجتمعات العالم النائية هشاشةً .

What risks and challenges do small-scale producers of oilseeds in Uganda face, and could agricultural insurance help them manage and mitigate those risks?

يقدم هذا الكتيب نظرة شاملة حول المبادرة من أجل الاستدامة، والاستقرار والأمن في أفريقيا

This brochure provides an overview of the GCF-GGW initiative.

This brochure provides an overview of the Rural Resilience Programme (2RP), an innovative umbrella programme that consolidates multiple sources of financing channelled to small-scale producers and their communities.

The Adaptation Framework is a repository of adaptation actions for small-scale agriculture, including livestock, forestry, and fisheries. It provides an approach for incorporating adaptation practices into project design.

This mid-term review assesses the extent to which the design and results to date of the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) are relevant for farmers facing climate change. 

في عالم سريع التغير، تظل الزراعة هي قلب التنمية المستدامة. إن المخاطر التي يواجهها العالم في العقد الأخير المتبقي لتحقيق أهداف التنمية المستدامة كثيرة، لكن الفرص عديدة بنفس القدر.

IFAD’s Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) is the largest multi-donor global fund specifically dedicated to enabling smallholder farmers to adapt and build their resilience to climate change.

This collection of data on sustainable land management (SLM) technologies and approaches includes relevant information on different SLM practices, their implementation details, and their ecological and socio-economic benefits and disadvantages.

IFAD’s community of practice for geospatial applications aims to enhance IFAD’s operations and impact through systematic integration of geospatial tools, methods and data analytics. 

مزارعو الأرز في منطقة التلال النيبالية معرضون للجفاف ، الأمر الذي يمكن أن يقلل بشكل كبير من الغلات. يمكن أن تخفف أصناف الأرز التي تتحمل الإجهاد من هذا الضعف، كما يمكن أن يكون لها معدل استبدال مرتفع للبذور واستخدام أفضل ممارسات الإدارة في زراعة الأرز.

This brief highlights a project in Niger that is tackling climate change and land degradation and scaling up sustainable natural resource management for family farming.

Discover how the Resilient Food Systems programme is enhancing long-term sustainability and resilience for food security in sub-Saharan Africa.

This study reviews evidence on initiatives that invest in climate-resilient infrastructure to support smallholder farmer organizations and agribusinesses in the micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) category and, ultimately, to foster inclusive and sustainable agricultural value chains. Case studies from the BRACED and ASAP programmes across sub-Saharan Africa are presented.

Today we stand at a critical juncture – historic progress in reducing hunger has stalled and the successes of recent decades are being reversed.

Climate change matters for all young people, especially for those whose livelihoods depend on agriculture. This study shows that adaptation to climate change is feasible and options increase as new technologies and management approaches come on-stream. 

The Climate Action Report 2019 provides an overview of IFAD’s work on climate change and reports on progress, challenges and achievements.

Development projects that integrate investments in rural indigenous people, youth and women with measures to adapt to climate change are more likely to be successful in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a new report launched today by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

A new report from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) shows that by working with women, men, young people and indigenous peoples as change agents we are best placed to beat back the impact of climate change on rural communities in West and Central Africa (WCA).

This report presents selected achievements and lessons from the growing portfolio of fisheries and aquaculture investments supported by IFAD.

Brazil and Africa share similar environmental, climate and social conditions, and both face similar development challenges. This creates interesting opportunities for South-South collaboration through technology transfer in several areas, including agriculture, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and value chains development.

This collection of sustainable land management (SLM) technologies and approaches was compiled as part of the Scaling-up SLM practices by smallholder farmers project funded by IFAD. 

This collection of sustainable land management (SLM) technologies and approaches was compiled as part of the Scaling-up SLM practices by smallholder farmers project funded by IFAD.

For millions of poor people in East and Southern Africa, bamboo has huge potential to alleviate poverty, protect the environment and help achieve the SDGs. 

إن أداة تقييم التكيف مع التغير المناخي في التنمية الريفية هي عبارة عن منصة لاستكشاف آثار تغير المناخ على غلة المحاصيل الرئيسية 

This study estimates the mitigation potential of agricultural practices supported by IFAD’s current investments in order to provide guidance for the design of future investments. 

Since 2006, IFAD and the European Union have partnered to invest over EUR 230 million in agricultural research programmes carried out through the CGIAR system.

Since 2006, IFAD and the European Union have partnered to invest over EUR 230 million in agricultural research programmes carried out through the CGIAR system. 

Since 2006, IFAD and the European Union have partnered to invest over EUR 230 million in agricultural research programmes carried out through the CGIAR system. 

Since 2006, IFAD and the European Union have partnered to invest over EUR 230 million in agricultural research programmes carried out through the CGIAR system. 

This Climate Action Report aims to present an overview of how IFAD is working to put into action its climate change mainstreaming agenda. It is intended not as a comprehensive review of its portfolio, but rather to provide its stakeholders with an understanding of how IFAD is stepping up its efforts and ambitions to contribute to addressing one of the greatest challenges faced, most acutely, by the rural poor. This report focuses on recent progress in 2017 

The Climate and Commodity Hedging to Enable Transformation (CACHET) initiative supports smallholder farmers against price and climate volatility negatively affecting their revenues.

The grant mainstreamed climate-smart, tree-based agricultural good practices into the climate adaptation and mitigation programmes of governments, NGOs and the private sector in Indonesia, the Philippines and Viet Nam.

​In 2014, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) released a report celebrating achievements through its partnership with the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Since then, the world has been responding to critical environmental and climate challenges.

The grant is one of three projects implemented under a broader regional programme (Adaptation to Change) financed by IFAD, the Government of Norway, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), and United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID). 

​With private contributions becoming increasingly pivotal to global climate finance, it is evident that scaling up and channeling private capital is crucial in meeting the goal of achieving the Paris Agreement and limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level.

In March 2018, IFAD and the Government of Pakistan organized a one-day seminar entitled “Preparing Rural Communities to Cope with Climate Change through South-South and Triangular Cooperation”.  

Among ecosystems services, freshwater is one of the most fundamental for life. For smallholders, water means the difference between a decent life and poverty, hunger and malnutrition. 

This How to Do Note (HTDN) is intended to provide guidance on how to design smallholder agriculture adaptation programmes that consider the differential impacts of climate change on women, men and youth smallholder farmers. This includes recognizing that programme interventions – from design to staffing to capacity development of beneficiaries and local organizations – need to consider how gender will affect sustainability and impact. The experiences, social positions and differing access to resources of marginalized populations are fundamental considerations in the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of gender transformative smallholder agriculture adaptation programmes.

Agriculture and fisheries, the backbone of food security and nutrition for coastal communities and globally, are under threat. 

Climate change and malnutrition are among the greatest problems in the twentyfirst century; they are “wicked problems”, difficult to describe, with multiple causes, and no single solution.

The Integrated Approach Programme on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa targets agro-ecological systems where the need to enhance food security is directly linked to opportunities for generating local and global environmental benefits.

The Integrated Approach Programme on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa targets agro-ecological systems where the need to enhance food security is directly linked to opportunities for generating local and global environmental benefits. 

This Household Mentoring handbook is a tool to assist household mentors to mentor selected poorer households.

Ethiopia is the second most populated African country with an estimated 96.9 million citizens. Of the total population, 81 per cent are classified as rural. The population is also growing at a rate of around 3 per cent per year. Whilst extreme poverty is declining, it is still widespread and in 2011 was counted at 30 per cent. 

This “Lessons Learned” document of the conservation agriculture (CA) in sub-Saharan Africa toolkit reviews experiences over the last two decades.

Conservation agriculture (CA) in sub-Saharan Africa has multiple, but often very specific, niches for investment that need to be understood to support its inclusion and implementation in projects.

This “How To Do” note offers guidance on the design, implementation and scaling up of a CA programme or project in sub-Saharan Africa. It begins with a summary of the key issues and associated questions  and follows this with lessons gained from experience.

South-South and triangular cooperation has an enormous potential role in agriculture and rural development in developing countries, both in unlocking diverse experiences and lessons and in providing solutions to pressing development challenges.

From the cases that follow, a number of common lessons emerge. First, it is important to create a space for interaction and cross-country learning. In the Scaling up Micro-Irrigation Systems project or with the household mentoring approach, for instance, workshops and ‘writeshops’ gathered people from diverse countries who could then share their own knowledge and experiences. In such spaces, participants could compare how a similar approach or technology required certain adaptations to better fit with local cultural, social and environmental contexts, offering important lessons for future scaling up.

Sometimes individual champions can make a difference. In Madagascar, the project design for a public/private partnership improved drastically when an IFAD consultant with similar experience in another country became involved. In this case, it was also an ‘unexpected outcome’, as the innovation came from a replacement for the regular consultant, who had broken his foot …. So even through small staff changes, knowledge of a complementary innovation from another country can have a big impact.

​Biodiversity is about more than plants, animals, and micro-organisms and their ecosystems – the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 1992) recognizes that it is also very much about people and our need for food security, medicines, fresh air, shelter, and a clean and healthy environment. Biodiversity is also essential for the maintenance of ecosystem-based services, such as the provision of water and food for human, animal and plant life. When we make an effort to conserve biodiversity, we are helping to maintain critical global biological resources to meet our needs today as well as those of future generations. Biodiversity conservation is therefore central to achieving recent global commitments for sustainable development under “Agenda 2030”, adopted by the United Nations in 2015. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) recognizes that losing biodiversity means losing opportunities for coping with future challenges, such as those posed by climate change and food insecurity. 

​This report is aimed at readers who seek to build economic evidence in support of the inclusion of actions on agriculture in climate change plans and programmes, particularly at the national level under the umbrella of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the December 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to restrict a rise in global temperatures and manage risks. Agriculture is a sector especially sensitive to climate change. It also accounts for significant emissions and is, therefore, a priority for both adaptation and mitigation plans and actions at global, national and local levels. 

Present in each continent and covering over 40 per cent of the earth, drylands generally refer to arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, and are home to more than 2 billion people.

Declining soil fertility, escalating costs of farm inputs and lack of capacity are persistent problems that farmers in eastern Africa continue to grapple with. Such factors have resulted in high levels of poverty and food insecurity due to poor performance of the agriculture sector. Climate change adds a big blow to the already bad scenario with serious ramifications on the smallholder-farming subsector. The region is predicted to experience warmer temperatures and decreased rainfall from June to August by 2050. This being an important season for food production in countries such as Kenya and Ethiopia, adaptation measures are necessary for sustainable food production. Evergreen Agriculture refers to the practice of incorporating selected trees and/or shrub species into annual cropping fields. It can be practiced under conventional farming practices but ideally seeks to combine agroforestry with the principles of conservation farming. Evergreen agriculture practices are now part of the solution to tackle climate change and the adoption is on a rising trend in several countries in the region. Conservation Agriculture, including agroforestry, specialty crops, and permanent cropping systems, promotes food sufficiency, poverty reduction, and value added production through improved crop and animal production and production in relation to market opportunities. 

Developing smallholder pig value chains in Uganda to increase rural incomes and adapt to climate change.

The Integrated Approach Programme on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa targets agro-ecological systems where the need to enhance food security is directly linked to opportunities for generating local and global environmental benefits. 

The Integrated Approach Programme (IAP) on Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa, supported by the Global Environment Facility, focuses specifically on promoting sustainability and resilience through management of the natural resources– land, water, soils, trees and genetic resources – that underpin food and nutrition security. 

The Integrated Approach Programme on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa targets agro-ecological systems where the need to enhance food security is directly linked to opportunities for generating local and global environmental benefits.

The Integrated Approach Programme on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa targets agro-ecological systems where the need to enhance food security is directly linked to opportunities for generating local and global environmental benefits.

The Integrated Approach Programme on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa targets agro-ecological systems where the need to enhance food security is directly linked to opportunities for generating local and global environmental benefits.

The Integrated Approach Programme on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa targets agro-ecological systems where the need to enhance food security is directly linked to opportunities for generating local and global environmental benefits. 

The Integrated Approach Programme on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa targets agro-ecological systems where the need to enhance food security is directly linked to opportunities for generating local and global environmental benefits.

This module provides guidance and a comprehensive menu of practical tools for integrating gender in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of projects and investments in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). The module emphasizes the importance and ultimate goal of integrating gender in CSA practices, which is to reduce gender inequalities and ensure that men and women can equally benefit from any intervention in the agricultural sector to reduce risks linked to climate change. Climate change has an impact on food and nutrition security and agriculture, and the agriculture sector is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. It is crucial to recognize that climate change affects men and women differently. The initial assumption is that social differences, particularly gender inequality, must be taken into account to strengthen the effectiveness and sustainability of CSA interventions. Women are key players in the agricultural sector, yet compared to men, they own fewer assets and have access to less land, fewer inputs, and fewer financial and extension services.

It is now beyond a reasonable doubt that the earth’s changing climate is a result of human actions.

The expanding total volume of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere is precipitating higher global surface temperatures and sea level rise.

The effects of human-induced climate change threaten the very existence of numerous species across the planet, including our own.

Strengthening Climate Resilience of the National Agricultural Land and Water Management Development Project (CHOSSO) – National Agricultural Land and Water Management Development Project (NEMA)

Higher temperatures, wildlife extinction, rising sea levels, droughts, floods, heat-related diseases and economic losses are among the consequences of climate change. Climate change disproportionally affects the poorest and most marginalized communities living in vulnerable regions, among them indigenous peoples, whose livelihoods depend on natural resources. 

Bangladesh is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries affected by climate change. During the monsoon period, the Haor region of Bangladesh becomes completely inundated with 4-8 metres of water for around 6-7 months of the year. Flash fl oods are common, and in some years 80-90 per cent of crops are lost because of extreme weather events. The situation is expected to worsen as a climate
change-related shift towards pre-monsoon rainfall is coinciding with the paddy rice pre-harvest period. This severely affects food output in the Haor, which provides up to 16 per cent of national rice production.

Policies affect every dimension of the institutional and legal context in which poor rural people pursue their livelihoods. They shape the world they live in and the economic opportunities open to them. This means that supportive policies can go a long way towards providing the conditions in which people can lift themselves out of poverty. Conversely, policies that do not create opportunities, or that exclusively reflect the interests of other economic players, can be an insuperable barrier or an unbridgeable gulf – roadblocks barring the way out of the poverty trap.

Climate change is the most compelling challenge facing the world today. It affects rural smallholders across the developing world, with effects that pose a grave threat to their own, and to the world’s food security.

Fisheries and aquaculture are important contributors to food security and livelihoods at household, local, national and global levels. However, while aquaculture production is growing rapidly throughout the world, particularly in Asia and Africa, many of the world’s fisheries are at grave risk from human pressures, including overexploitation, pollution and habitat change. Climate change is compounding these pressures, posing very serious challenges and limiting livelihood opportunities.

​The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has highlighted a critical trade-off between agricultural development and climate change mitigation.