Knowledge

IFAD’s strategic focus is closely aligned with Japan’s official development assistance priorities, including promoting food security and nutrition.

This series of socio-legal reviews summarizes the legal and policy documents related to women’s land tenure in seven countries.

In-depth gender analyses examined the relationship between local context, gender and land rights in six countries.

This Learning Exchange Series shared insights and lessons on securing women’s resource rights through gender transformative approaches.

IFAD is sustainably transforming rural areas in Lesotho into resilient and economically productive environments, enabling rural people to sustain their livelihoods and overcome poverty and malnutrition.

This case study highlights the achievements of E-SLIP in various domains, including disease control, forage production and capacity building.

This position paper outlines five recommendations for livestock investments to deliver better climate outcomes while supporting livelihoods and nutrition.

Country Advisory Services provide timely and relevant knowledge, data and evidence for selected IFAD Member States. They also support improved policy frameworks and IFAD operations.Country Advisory Services provide timely and relevant knowledge, data and evidence for selected IFAD Member States. They also support improved policy frameworks and IFAD operations.

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.

Increasing food demand is a key concern in Nigeria and Togo as price increases exacerbate poverty. The project improves food security and agricultural productivity within the rice and cassava value chains by introducing resilient crop varieties, improving crop management practices and implementing enabling policies.

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

The Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises in the Niger Delta (LIFE-ND) project in southern Nigeria helps unemployed rural youth and women make a living from agriculture by developing entrepreneurial skills.

From a total of 64 RPSF projects, a sample of 13 projects were chosen to undergo a rapid assessment. Results indicate that the RPSF helped up to 2.9 million households maintain or increase many development and welfare indicators, including production, income and food security.

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report 2024 presents the latest updates on the food security and nutrition situation around the world, including updated estimates on the cost and affordability of healthy diets.

This report provides a detailed overview of the results achieved by the Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) in 2023.

This brief presents the lessons learned the Nepal SAMRIDDHI Rural Enterprises and Remittances Project.

In response to today’s increased fragility, IFAD has updated its operational approach to supporting rural people in fragile situations.

This Annual Report showcases the accomplishments of the Facility throughout 2023. It offers a comprehensive overview of the Facility’s portfolio, project highlights, improvements in project management and communication efforts. It also proposes future actions to enhance the Facility’s impact.

IFAD’s Asia Pacific newsletter captures inspirational storytelling and in-depth research from across the region.

This stocktaking document reviews IFAD-funded value chain projects in the Near East, North Africa and Europe region. It highlights main issues and challenges, including targeting and lack of capacity.