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IFAD and European Space Agency use spatial technology to better serve the world’s poorest rural food producers
As current global crises converge, business as usual will not suffice. Leveraging innovation and new partnerships has become increasingly important as world leaders search for new ways to tackle hunger, poverty and the growing impacts of climate change.
France champions ambitious call to fund IFAD to ensure long-term global food security and stability
During the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, held in Paris 22-23 June, France’s President, Emmanuel Macron, called on global leaders to substantially increase their contributions to IFAD.
The New Global Financing Pact must work for small-scale farmers who feed the world and live in poverty says IFAD President
The President of IFAD, Alvaro Lario, today called on world leaders attending the New Global Financing Pact Summit to find solutions that would significantly drive more funding to rural populations and the poor small-scale farmers who are key to global food security.
From the field to our plates, rural people are transforming food systems
Our food systems need to change. Around the world, small-scale farmers, fishers and rural producers are already leading the transformation – here’s how.
Lifelong hobbies become lifelines for Syrian refugees in Jordan
Since 2011, over 700,000 Syrian refugees have crossed the border into Jordan. Here, both refugees and host communities in rural areas frequently struggle with poverty as water scarcity, feed shortage and rangeland degradation make farming a challenge. Meet three refugees that IFAD is helping to face these challenges.
Encouraging young women in business in Tunisia
Hayet has a university degree but, like one third of young rural women in Tunisia, she could not find a job and had no means of earning an income.
A growing number of the world’s poorest countries are first to step up support to IFAD in fight to reduce hunger and poverty
As world leaders prepare for the New Global Financing Pact Summit in Paris this week, some of the world’s poorest countries are stepping up their support to IFAD - an indication of the serious impact that climate catastrophes, inflation and persistent hunger have and the long-term benefits of agricultural development in building resilient rural economies.