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The Japan-IFAD partnership
IFAD’s strategic focus is closely aligned with Japan’s official development assistance priorities, including promoting food security and nutrition.
Developing Gender Transformative Approaches through Gender Analysis for Enhanced Women's Land and Resource Rights
In-depth gender analyses examined the relationship between local context, gender and land rights in six countries.
Securing Women's Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches: Learning Exchange
This Learning Exchange Series shared insights and lessons on securing women’s resource rights through gender transformative approaches.
Securing Women's Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches: A socio-legal review
This series of socio-legal reviews summarizes the legal and policy documents related to women’s land tenure in seven countries.
Investing in rural people in Lesotho
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.
Case Study: The Impact of the Enhancing Livestock and Livelihoods Programme in Zambia
This case study highlights the achievements of E-SLIP in various domains, including disease control, forage production and capacity building.
Investing in Livestock for Improved and Resilient Livelihoods, Nutrition and Climate Action
This position paper outlines five recommendations for livestock investments to deliver better climate outcomes while supporting livelihoods and nutrition.
Country Advisory Services
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.
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.
Project Brief: Agricultural Transformation in Nigerian Federal States and Togolese Regions Towards Achieving Zero Hunger
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.
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.
Photobook: Nurturing rural livelihoods in the Niger Delta
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.
Supporting rural households during the pandemic: Results and evidence from IFAD’s Rural Poor Stimulus Facility
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 2024
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.
PARM Annual Report 2023
This report provides a detailed overview of the results achieved by the Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) in 2023.
Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems: Lessons Learned from the SAMRIDDHI Rural Enterprises and Remittances Project in Nepal
This brief presents the lessons learned the Nepal SAMRIDDHI Rural Enterprises and Remittances Project.
Updated approach to IFAD engagement in fragile situations
In response to today’s increased fragility, IFAD has updated its operational approach to supporting rural people in fragile situations.
China-IFAD South-South and Triangular Cooperation Facility: Annual Progress Report 2023
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.
The IFAD in Asia and the Pacific newsletter - Issue 20
IFAD’s Asia Pacific newsletter captures inspirational storytelling and in-depth research from across the region.
Stocktake of IFAD value chain projects in the Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia 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 Annual Report 2023
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.
The Norway-IFAD Partnership
IFAD and Norway share a vision of a world without poverty and hunger.
The Donor Platform's 2023 Annual Report
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.
Promoting financial inclusion through digitalization of remittances
This report highlights the transformative power of digital solutions to enhance financial inclusion and reduce remittance costs.
IFAD Remittance Innovation Toolkit
This toolkit provides guidance on improving access to secure and swift remittance services through enhanced identity verification and customer due diligence (CDD) practices.
Policy Brief: Unlocking the Cassava Treasure
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.
China-IFAD SSTC Facility New Project Factsheets
The factsheets provide a short overview of the projects’ objectives, planned activities, outputs and partnerships.
IFAD13 Core Additional Climate Contributions: Enhancing IFAD’s climate work
This brief outlines why Additional Climate Contributions matter and how they will work.
Maximizing Sustainable Pasture Management in Georgia: A Holistic Policy Perspective
This research paper provides a detailed analysis of pasture management in Georgia.
Strengthening value chains and transforming rural communities in Nigeria
The Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) develops cassava and rice value chains for smallholder farmers by building strong public–private–producer partnerships.
Infographic: IFAD13 at a glance
This infographic outlines the main elements of IFAD13, including our ambitions, targets, approaches and tools.
IFAD’s Newsletter on South-South and Triangular Cooperation – Issue 3
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.
PRUNSAR Lessons Learned
This Lessons Learned document highlights two main approaches which were particularly effective for scaling research-based agricultural innovations under the PRUNSAR programme.
SAFIN Annual Progress Report 2023
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.
Enhancing Rural Finance Design and Implementation: Lessons from IFAD’s Operations in Egypt
This report examines the complexities of inclusive rural finance in Egypt, highlighting challenges and opportunities, and offering innovative solutions.
Investing in rural people in Türkiye
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.
IFAD Project Procurement Annual Report 2023
The 2023 Project Procurement Annual Report provides a comprehensive overview of IFAD's project procurement activities throughout the year.
Investing in rural people in Viet Nam
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.
Investing in rural people in Zambia
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.
Unleashing the Catalytic Power of Donor Financing to Achieve SDG 2
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.
Guidelines for measuring gender transformative change in the context of food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture
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.
Djibouti: Programme to Reduce Vulnerability in Coastal Fishing Areas
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.
Mali: Fostering Agricultural Productivity Project
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.
Sudan: Butana Integrated Rural Development Project
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.
Mozambique: Pro-Poor Value Chain Development in the Maputo and Limpopo Corridors
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 Gambia: National Agricultural Land and Water Management Development Project
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.
PRUNSAR Knowledge Directory
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.
Food Systems Finance for Resilient Futures: A Multilateral Development Bank and National Development Bank Collaboration Roadmap
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.
The Luxembourg-IFAD partnership
Luxembourg is a long-standing partner with development priorities that align with IFAD’s mandate.
IFAD Research Series 94: Engaging women in microfinance - a qualitative study of the Programme de Microfinance Rural in Mali
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.