Country-level policy engagement-opportunity and necessity

Technical Brief: Insights from IFAD’s Impact Assessment Data

The vast majority of poor people live rural areas where the poverty rate is three times that of urban areas. Using IFAD11 impact assessment data on 21 projects, this brief provides a descriptive analysis of the socio-economic characteristics of IFAD’s target group.

Programme Brief: Agroecological Transitions for Building Resilient and Inclusive Agricultural and Food Systems

This brief describes the Agroecological Transitions programme which empowers farmers in low- and middle-income countries to make climate-informed agroecological transitions.

Project Brief: Improving Agricultural Resilience to Salinity through Development and Promotion of Pro-poor Technologies (RESADE)

RESADE is improving food security, agricultural productivity and incomes of poor smallholder farmers in salinity-affected areas in seven countries. It does so by introducing salt-tolerant crops, using suitable agronomic management practices, developing value chains for new crops, building capacity, influencing national development policies, providing good quality seeds.