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.

IFAD’s Annual Report 2023 describes how IFAD is innovating to assemble more finance to invest in rural people and how it is evolving to have even greater impact on the ground.

IFAD and Norway share a vision of a world without poverty and hunger.

2023 marked the Platform’s 20th anniversary. This report highlights the activities and results in catalysing change and harmonizing impact, with a focus on sustainable and blended financing for ending hunger, donor coordination and better data for food systems and rural development.

This report highlights the transformative power of digital solutions to enhance financial inclusion and reduce remittance costs.

This toolkit provides guidance on improving access to secure and swift remittance services through enhanced identity verification and customer due diligence (CDD) practices.

This policy brief on the Supporting and Strengthening Community Resilience in Tanzania project provides recommendations for policy formulation and implementation regarding the export of cassava chips to neighbouring countries.

The factsheets provide a short overview of the projects’ objectives, planned activities, outputs and partnerships.

This brief outlines why Additional Climate Contributions matter and how they will work.

This research paper provides a detailed analysis of pasture management in Georgia.

The Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) develops cassava and rice value chains for smallholder farmers by building strong public–private–producer partnerships.

This infographic outlines the main elements of IFAD13, including our ambitions, targets, approaches and tools.

The third edition of Shared Development, IFAD’s South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) newsletter, highlights how we leverage SSTC as a tool for country programme delivery.

This Lessons Learned document highlights two main approaches which were particularly effective for scaling research-based agricultural innovations under the PRUNSAR programme.

The SAFIN Annual Progress Report 2023 captures the network’s achievements in fostering collaboration with the agricultural finance ecosystem, sharing market intelligence, advocating for small businesses and farmers, and building regional partnerships.

This report examines the complexities of inclusive rural finance in Egypt, highlighting challenges and opportunities, and offering innovative solutions.

Türkiye is IFAD’s largest recipient of financial assistance in the Europe and Central Asia sub-region. IFAD investments contribute to reducing rural poverty in the upland areas of the country.

The 2023 Project Procurement Annual Report provides a comprehensive overview of IFAD's project procurement activities throughout the year.

This country fact sheet outlines IFAD’s strategy to eradicate poverty in Viet Nam, which focus on developing market-led innovations that aid poor people.

The primary aim of IFAD’s work in Zambia is to increase the income and food security of poor rural people through sustainable, diversified and climate-resilient rural livelihoods.

This report presents the findings and recommendations of an enquiry into sustainable finance in agrifood systems conducted by the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development.

In the framework of the EU-RBA Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition, these Guidelines aim at enhancing the capacity of research and development partners to design, implement, monitor and evaluate gender transformative interventions.

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.

This Knowledge Directory provides access to over 50 publications, videos, webtools and other knowledge products created under PRUNSAR which highlight methodologies, technologies and strategies for conducting effective agricultural research for development.

This working paper proposes five recommendations that Multilateral Development Banks can adopt to implement capital adequacy reforms in a way that supports National Development Banks in transforming food systems finance.

Luxembourg is a long-standing partner with development priorities that align with IFAD’s mandate.

This paper outlines the results of a study on the Programme de Microfinance Rural in Mali. It explores the impacts on agency and use of resources in households, with a focus on the role of gender in addressing these issues.

This brief explains how IFAD uses M&E at the corporate strategy, country strategy and project levels to maximise the impact of SSTC.

The brief emphasizes the importance of community involvement in multi-stakeholder platforms and the need for adaptive strategies, like public-private partnerships, to ensure the long-term success of programmes.

This course explains the Theory of Change and the Logical Framework in IFAD projects, the difference between the two and describes how to prepare them.

This course explains the planning, monitoring and evaluation activities during project implementation. It describes the annual planning process, the need for continuous data collection and project monitoring at every project phase. It discusses field visits, supervision missions, special studies, M&E for capacity building, transforming data into meaningful information and the completion process.

This course introduces the M&E plan, its purpose and the key actors who must prepare it. It also presents suggestions for the contents.

This advanced course builds on the ‘Fundamentals of ICT4D in Agriculture course’ to enhance knowledge and capacity among IFAD staff and members of Project Management Units to integrate agricultural digital technologies into IFAD’s work.

This advanced course builds on the ‘Fundamentals of ICT4D in Agriculture’ course to further enhance IFAD staff’s knowledge and capacity to integrate agricultural digital technologies into IFAD’s work.

This advanced course builds on the ‘Fundamentals of ICT4D in Agriculture’ course to further IFAD staff’s understandings of key principles and approaches to integrate digital solutions into IFAD’s work.

This publication presents the results of the Resilient Food Systems programme which aims to strengthen policy dialogue and decision-making in 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This cookbook contains 34 easy-to-follow traditional dishes cooked by the rural people and ethnic minority groups of Viet Nam, and recognises their invaluable role in preserving the country’s cultural and biological diversity, inspiring an appreciation for the interconnectedness of food, culture and the natural world.

This photo book tells the stories of ten people who benefited from the Project for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Mekong Delta in the Ben Tre and Tra Vinh Provinces. Three years after the project closed, the rural businesses they built have proven to be sustainable, enabling them to escape poverty and contribute to the well-being of their families and communities.

This photobook offers a glimpse into the Rural Economic Growth and Employment Project in Jordan.

IFAD supports Pacific Island countries to develop inclusive, productive, resilient and sustainable food systems that are community-driven.

The strong partnership between IFAD and Brazil is based on a shared commitment to reducing poverty and pursuing innovative ways to assist rural communities.

This paper outlines two index proposals for defining and measuring rurality: the relative rurality index and the contiguity of areas of similar densities.

This paper examines to what extent, and how, donor approaches in agriculture, rural development and food systems have changed over the past 20 years, what are the main emerging issues, what should be done to address these and how these changes could shape the activities of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD).

Various sources estimate the population of indigenous peoples in the Philippines at 12-15% of the current national population of 108 million, or a total of about 16-17 million.

Indonesia is comprised of 13.000 islands with a total area of 7 million km2. It has a total population of 273 million in more than 1.000 various ethnic and sub-ethnic groups with their own cultures and traditions.

These guidelines assess previous Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) development efforts across Africa, propose policies and strategies for developing AVC pathways, and identify the policy and institutional factors needed for successful implementation.

Indigenous Peoples of Cambodia represent 24 different groups, who reside mainly in the upland forests, plains, and mountains of the northern and north-eastern provinces.

This report provides practical guidance for donors and their partners to better coordinate and align for food systems transformation and rural development.

This report presents the results of IFAD’s climate-focused finance and shows how IFAD combines up-to-date, robust knowledge on climate and sustainable agricultural development with easy-to-access financial mechanisms.

This policy note takes stock of government responses to the impacts of the war in Ukraine on food, fertilizer and food.

This white paper, produced by IFAD and the NDC Partnership, emphasizes the need for integrated investments in climate-adaptive, water-resilient food systems, addressing challenges, discussing case studies, outlining barriers and providing recommendations for a new financial execution model.

The Climate-Resilient Post-Harvest and Agribusiness Support Project pioneered the Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) model which combines weather data with farmers’ knowledge to enhance their decision-making.