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IFAD’s Climate Action Report 2019
Putting an end to violence against women in rural communities
On the international day for the elimination of violence against women, IFAD reaffirms its commitment to eliminate and prevent gender-based violence.
Mobilizing inclusive remittances for rural development
Sanitation pays for itself and is the business opportunity of the decade
Spinning yarns – Investing in wool and mohair in Lesotho
IFAD partnership in Bhutan reaping benefits for farmers
Recipes for Change: Moringa leaves with coconout - Sri Lanka
Assets for life: Small, but innovative, investments in water infrastructures, transform livelihoods in Mozambique
Women and youth lead change in Lima's highlands and high rainforest
Small credits foster rural entrepreneurship in Guinea
Mohamed enjoys welcoming visitors to his vegetables garden in Fria town, in Guinea, and is proud to show every crop he has been growing. This 32-year-old rural entrepreneur recalls how his business succeeded thanks to an unexpected opportunity while he was pursuing a civil servant career.
Protecting villages from flash floods and improving livelihoods in the Haor basin wetlands
Making local crops work for nutrition-sensitive agriculture
A new framework will guide practitioners to use a broad portfolio of crop species to bring nutrition back to the table.
Restoring mangroves is saving rural communities in Gambia
Recipes for Change: Te Mai Ae Tanna Kiribati
I’m a potato grower! Strengthening innovation to empower potato growers in the Andes
Innovations in law to tackle food insecurity
The latest SOFI report confirms that the number of hungry people in the world continues to increase, highlighting the challenge of reaching the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of Zero Hunger by 2030.
Recipes for Change: Ema datshi and millet momos
Young smallholder farmers overcoming climate challenges in Viet Nam
From farm to market: improving the food value chain through women empowerment in Guinea
Opportunities, challenges and limitations of climate-smart agriculture - The case of Egypt
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) aims to facilitate the evolution of agricultural systems in the face of a rapidly changing climate. IFAD's approach to promoting CSA for smallholders focuses on three core objectives.
CARD: Assessing data for climate-friendly action in rural contexts
Forging tools to catalyse food production in Senegal
World Bee Day - High-altitude honey
The capital difference: Expanding horticulture in Rwanda
Recommended books on Indigenous Peoples
Community gardens in the Gambia: one solution, many benefits
A tool to make rural investments more resilient
Transforming innovative ideas into sustainable agriculture in West and Central Africa
Ideas are the lifeblood of innovation. To accelerate rural transformation while tackling rural poverty, food insecurity, nutrition, job creation and climate change, innovative ideas are needed.
How increased access to water shortens the path towards sustainable development in the Sahel
Every day Dienaba Sow travels 3.5 kilometres from her home in Hodio village towards Toung, in Senegal's Louga region, to collect water for her family's daily needs.
A new development paradigm - BAPA+40
A conference taking place this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina reminds us that developing countries today look as much to each other for help along their path to development as they do to the developed world.
Highlights from IFAD's Governing Council
Pope Francis set the tone for the 42nd session of IFAD’s annual Governing Council meeting (14 - 15 February) by saying that hunger can be made a part of the world’s past, but only if all institutions and people work together, and only if these efforts are owned locally and driven by those who are suffering most, as architects of their own development.
EAT-Lancet Commission Brief for Farmers
Change starts at home – Addressing gender imbalances and climate issues through household methodologies
IFAD is piloting the use of household methodologies (HHMs) for gender equality and climate change adaptation as a way to accelerate progress towards the economic empowerment of rural women in Rwanda.
Ten books to read this winter
IFAD welcomes the European Union’s commitment to a new impact fund targeting small agribusinesses across emerging markets
Building bridges between smallholders and financial markets
From Africa to Brazil and back: empowering youth through South-South learning exchange
Major international discussions draw to a close in Poland
Acting now: enforcing global action to limit further warming of the planet
Angela Merkel sends message of support that includes IFAD at Global Citizens’ Mandela 100 Festival
Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel calls on the international community to increase food production and help create jobs in rural areas to help defeat poverty and hunger.