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How the United Nations System Supports Ambitious Action on Climate Change
build carbon-neutral economies. This is why the UN system is fully committed to supporting the international community as it confronts climate change while working to build a sustainable world for the twenty-first century.
Gender equality and women's empowerment - IFAD's work and results
Lines of Credit
ASAP Bangladesh factsheet
change. During the monsoon period, the Haor region of Bangladesh becomes
completely inundated with 4-8 metres of water for around 6-7 months of the year.
Flash fl oods are common, and in some years 80-90 per cent of crops are lost
because of extreme weather events. The situation is expected to worsen as a climate
change-related shift towards pre-monsoon rainfall is coinciding with the paddy rice
pre-harvest period. This severely affects food output in the Haor, which provides up
to 16 per cent of national rice production.
ASAP Rwanda factsheet
production is increasingly exposed to drought, intense and erratic rainfall, high winds
and emerging seasonal and temperature shifts. If not addressed, climate variability
will mean signifi cant economic costs – estimated at up to US$300 million annually
by 2030.
ASAP Nigeria factsheet
ASAP Mali factsheet
ASAP Ghana factsheet
members of the selected value chains, will benefit from activities such as the dissemination of climate change adaptation toolkits, national and international exchange visits, the dissemination of good practices
and training.
ASAP Nicaragua factsheet
ASAP Kyrgyzstan factsheet
countries to the impacts of climate change in Central Asia. The country suffers from drought, land and mudslides. Flooding events and river erosion are set to increase in frequency and intensity. The mountainous nature of the country renders 45 per cent of Kyrgyzstan’s land inhospitable. The majority of the population live in valleys and at the foothills of the mountains, where vulnerability to climate-related hazards is highest.
ASAP Viet Nam factsheet
100 centimetres by the end of this century) are expected to affect 20-50 per cent of the low-lying Mekong Delta. Changes in rainfall and temperatures are increasing the risk of fl oods, typhoons and droughts. Climate change has serious implications for Viet Nam’s socio-economic development, especially in the densely populated and productive Mekong Delta.
ASAP Djibouti factsheet
The programme will support the design and implementation of participatory management plans for ecosystem conservation to alleviate stresses and increase the resilience of fragile habitats.
ASAP Yemen factsheet
rural communities. This includes increasing their resilience to climate change impacts by
helping communities to diversify their livelihoods options and improving the management
of natural resources. Investments in climate-resilient infrastructure will also support
agricultural development.
ASAP Bolivia factsheet
A market approach to drip irrigation
Between 2009 and 2012, the IFAD-supported Scaling up Micro-irrigation Systems (SCAMPIS) project developed a market approach for the dissemination of locally adapted drip irrigation kits.
The approach identifies the technology that is best suited to the local context and appropriate for the most vulnerable rural inhabitants. It then builds a sustainable local supply chain for the irrigation equipment that makes the technology affordable and available, not just for the duration of the project but in the long term.
In just three years, the pilot project was able to dramatically change the lives of 30,000 farmers and their families (in total, around 150,000 poor rural people) on three continents.
Family farming in Latin America - A new comparative analysis
Investing in rural people in Benin
Swaziland - Lower Usuthu smallholder irrigation project
Preparación jurídica para el cambio climático y el fomento al desarrollo rural en México
Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty in Jordan
IFAD has committed US$71.4 million in loans to Jordan since 1981 to support agricultural development and reduce rural poverty. The funds have been used in six agricultural development programmes and projects with a total value of US$189.3 million.
The Government of Jordan and project participants have contributed US$63.2 million. The programmes and
projects are designed by IFAD in collaboration with rural people, the government and other partners. They address poverty through promotion of sustainable natural resource management, particularly water and soil conservation. A seventh project is being designed.
Project for Market and Pasture Management
Securing smallholder farmers’ land and water rights in irrigation schemes in Malawi, Rwanda and Swaziland
IFAD and UN-Habitat, through the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), have entered into a partnership to implement the „Land and Natural Resources Learning Initiative for Eastern and Southern Africa (TSLI-ESA)‟.
The initiative aims to improve knowledge management strategies and approaches towards pro-poor and gender-sensitive land and natural resource tenure rights in selected East and Southern African countries.
Combatir la pobreza rural - La función de las TIC
Integrated GEF grant (Trust Fund) - Participatory control of desertification and poverty reduction in the arid and semi-arid high plateau ecosystems of Eastern Morocco
Méthodes innovantes d’amélioration sylvo-pastorale: Le cas du projet de lutte participative contre la désertification et de réduction de la pauvreté dans les écosystèmes arides et semi-arides des hauts plateaux de l’Oriental au Maroc.
IFAD and the private sector - building links to accelerate pro-poor rural development
IFAD’s experience shows that, with the right support, rural communities can transform their existence in a sustainable way. Supporting the development and ownership of a viable private sector in rural areas plays a fundamental part.
We have always supported the rural private sector, providing primarily small- scale operators with financial and technical assistance to help them
improve their livelihoods.
Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty in Mauritius
IFAD and the Government of Mauritius are moving towards a new form of partnership that differs from the standard model for low-income countries, which was followed in Mauritius until 2005.
IFAD recognizes that the country now has sufficient national resources to address rural poverty, so the focus of interventions has shifted from financing projects towards developing a collaborative approach with the government to reduce the incidence of poverty.
This approach includes policy dialogue, knowledge management and sharing, and partnership-building.
Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty in Seychelles
IFAD first worked in Seychelles in 1991, when it began financing the Employment Generation Project, which was completed six years later.
More recently, stakeholders from Seychelles have participated in activities funded by an ongoing IFAD grant, which supports the Regional Initiative for Smallholder Agriculture Adaptation to Climate Change in the Indian Ocean Islands. This initiative is creating a regional knowledge-management platform on adaptation strategies for small-scale farmers.
The platform actively disseminates information on conservation agriculture practices such as farming with low or zero tillage, as well as composting, integrating livestock and farming activities, and other environmentally sustainable measures.
Los pueblos indígenas: valorar, respetar y apoyar la diversidad
culturales y consideran que hay una profunda interdependencia
entre sus sistemas sociales, económicos ambientales y
espirituales. Sus conocimientos tradicionales y su comprensión
del manejo de los ecosistemas son contribuciones valiosas
para el acervo mundial. A pesar de ello, los pueblos
indígenas figuran al mismo tiempo entre los grupos más
vulnerables, marginados y desfavorecidos del mundo. Es
nuestro deber lograr que se escuchen sus voces, se
respeten sus derechos y se mejore su bienestar.
Addressing poverty through mobilization of community resources
and mobilization of local financial, natural and human resources.
Access to markets: Making value chains work for poor rural people
World Water Day 2014 - Understanding the interdependency of water and energy
Agriculture is a thirsty business, with irrigation alone accounting for about 70 per cent of freshwater withdrawals.
Meeting demand from a world population expected to top 9 billion people by 2050 will require a 10 per cent increase in water for agricultural use.
Enormous efforts will be needed to reduce water demand and improve water use efficiency.
Land and natural resources in Kenya
IFAD and UN-Habitat, through the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), have entered into a partnership to implement the ‘Land and Natural Resources Learning Initiative for Eastern and Southern Africa (TSLI-ESA)’.
The initiative aims to improve knowledge management strategies and approaches towards pro-poor and gender-sensitive land and natural resource tenure rights in selected East and Southern African countries.
Land and natural resources in Mozambique
IFAD and UN-Habitat, through the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), have entered into a partnership to implement the „Land and Natural Resources Learning Initiative for Eastern and Southern Africa (TSLI-ESA)‟.
The initiative aims to improve knowledge management strategies and approaches towards pro-poor and gender-sensitive land and natural resource tenure rights in selected East and Southern African countries.
Recognizing and Documenting Group Rights to Land and other Natural Resources
Rural people generally need both secure individual rights to farm plots and secure collective rights to common pool resources on which whole villages depend.
IFAD-supported projects and programmes have supported the recognition and documenting of group rights, focusing on range/grazing lands, forests and artisanal fishing communities.
Securing land and natural resouce rights through business partnerships between small-scale farmers and investors
IFAD and UN-Habitat, through the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), have entered into a partnership to implement the ‘Land and Natural Resources Learning Initiative for Eastern and Southern Africa (TSLI-ESA)’.
The initiative aims to improve knowledge management strategies and approaches towards pro-poor and gender-sensitive land and natural resource tenure rights in selected East and Southern African countries
Land and natural resources in Swaziland
IFAD and UN-Habitat, through the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), have entered into a partnership to implement the „Land and Natural Resources Learning Initiative for Eastern and Southern Africa (TSLI-ESA)‟.
The initiative aims to improve knowledge management strategies and approaches towards pro-poor and gender-sensitive land and natural resource tenure rights in selected East and Southern African countries.
Land and Natural Resources Tenure Security Learning Initiative for East and Southern Africa
This report provides an overview of the achievements and learning from the Phase 1 of the Tenure Security Learning Initiative - East & Southern Africa (TSLI-ESA) Project.
It also looks ahead to strategies for scaling up initiatives, and to the second phase of the TSLI-ESA project.
Mapping land and natural resource rights, use and management
Participatory mapping uses a range of tools including data collection tools, such as mental mapping, ground mapping, participatory sketch mapping, transect mapping and participatory 3-dimensional modelling.
Recently participatory mapping initiatives have begun to use more technically advanced geographic information technologies, including Global Positioning Systems (GPS), aerial photos and use of remote-sensing images, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other digital computer-based technologies.
IFAD supported projects and programmes are increasingly making use of these technologies for mapping land and natural resource rights, use and management.
Dar a la población rural pobre de Guatemala la oportunidad de salir de la pobreza
El Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA) apoya las iniciativas de reducción de la pobreza rural y desarrollo agrícola en Guatemala desde 1986. El FIDA, durante su primer decenio en el país, orientó su labor a apoyar al Gobierno en la consolidación del proceso de paz y la reconstrucción del tejido social del país en las zonas que se vieron afectadas por el conflicto armado, que se prolongó durante 36 años.
También se concentró en la construcción de una plataforma económica e institucional para el desarrollo de las comunidades rurales e indígenas marginadas.
Experiencias del FIDA sobre escalonamiento en Perú, Estudio de caso y esquema analítico
El futuro de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional mundial
económicas, financieras y alimentarias que han desacelerado, y
en ocasiones invalidado, los esfuerzos mundiales por reducir la
pobreza y el hambre. Al día de hoy, la volatilidad de los precios y una
serie de catástrofes climáticas, como la devastadora sequía que arrasó
recientemente el Cuerno de África, siguen desbaratando esos esfuerzos.
En este contexto, la promoción de la capacidad de recuperación de los
medios de vida y de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional ha pasado a
ocupar un lugar destacado en los programas de políticas de los
gobiernos. Los pequeños agricultores deben ocupar el centro
mismo de estos programas y ejercer funciones directivas en las
actividades de inversión necesarias para ejecutarlos.
Investing in rural people in Burundi
IFAD has funded nine programmes and projects in Burundi for a total investment of US$141 million. IFAD’s experience in the country confirms that even under adverse circumstances programmes and projects conceived and designed on the basis of adequate consultations with incentives to rural communities can help improve household food security.
During more than a decade of open conflict in Burundi, IFAD continued to implement programme and project activities. In keeping with its mandate for rural and agricultural development, the organization supported participation in social development and the cohesion of rural communities that were directly or indirectly affected by massacres and combat. By continuing activities in the face of insecurity and within the constraints of an international embargo on Burundi, IFAD helped communities maintain a sense of normalcy.
Enabling poor rural to overcome poverty in Yemen
IFAD is currently one of the two largest donors supporting Yemen’s rural agricultural sector. IFAD has worked in Yemen since the Fund’s creation, and has acquired a wealth of experience and knowledge of the economy and society, and developed a wide network of partners in the country. IFAD’s goal in Yemen is to achieve improved, diversified and sustainable livelihoods for poor rural women, men and young people, especially those who depend on rainfed agriculture and livestock production systems in the poorest areas.
IFAD has three main strategic objectives in Yemen:
• empowering rural communities by strengthening partnerships with civil society organizations and using community-driven approaches so that poor rural people can manage local community development activities;
• promoting sustainable rural financial services and pro-poor rural enterprises by developing savings and credit associations for disadvantaged groups in remote rural areas and developing rural enterprises that provide jobs for the unemployed, especially young people and women;
• enhancing food security for poor households by restoring the productive agricultural base and improving productivity so that poor households can produce enough for household needs and a surplus that can be sold.
Dar a la población rural pobre de Honduras la oportunidad de salir de la pobreza
Los préstamos y donaciones del FIDA han apoyado las inversiones gubernamentales en programas de reducción de la pobreza desde 1979. Antes de 1998, cuando el huracán Mitch devastó el país, el FIDA era una de las únicas instituciones internacionales que invertía en el desarrollo rural y el alivio de la pobreza en Honduras.
El FIDA también diseñó uno de los primeros proyectos que se ejecutaron tras el desastroso huracán: el Proyecto del Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Rural Sostenible (FONADERS).
Addressing climate change in East and Southern Africa
Fragile states: working to build resilience
strong policies, skilled personnel, functional infrastructure and services, educated citizens, an active civil society and a competitive private sector. Civil and border conflict is an all-too frequent reality.
Poor people living in rural areas of fragile states are particularly vulnerable as they have very limited means to cope with the situation created by fragility.
IFAD and Togo
The country’s challenge now is to create the conditions for economic growth – and the Government of Togo believes that the best way to achieve lasting growth is through increased production and productivity in the agriculture sector.
For these reasons, after more than a decade out of the country, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is working closely with the Republic of Togo to put agricultural and rural development on track.
Smallholder conservation agriculture - Rationale for IFAD involvement and relevance to the East and Southern Africa region
Regreening the Sahel: Developing agriculture in the context of climate change in Burkina Faso
of severity occur in two out of every five years, making harvests of the major food and cash crops highly uncertain. The recurrent droughts of the 1970s and 1980s caused huge losses of agricultural production and livestock, the loss of human lives to hunger and malnutrition, and the massive displacement of people and
shattered economies. Most climate models predict that the Sahel region will become even drier during this century.
The issue of land in Argentina
Higher and volatile food prices and poor rural people
at both household and country levels. Many of the world’s
poorest people spend more than half their income on food.
Price hikes for cereals and other staples can force them
to cut back on the quantity or quality of their food.
This may result in food insecurity and malnutrition,
with tragic implications in both the short and long term.
Undernourishment increases disease and mortality, lowers
productivity and can have severe lifelong effects, particularly
for children. Price spikes can also limit the ability of poor
households to meet important non-food expenses, such
as education and health care. When they occur globally,
price hikes can affect low-income, food importing
countries, putting pressure on their limited financial
resources. Higher food prices have a particularly negative
impact on food security when prices spike suddenly or
reach extremely high levels.
El cambio climático: reforzar la capacidad de resistencia de los pequeños agricultores
rural, pero son los más castigados por el cambio climático. En todo el
mundo, hay 500 millones de pequeños agricultores que prestan
apoyo a unos 2 000 millones de personas. Estos agricultores habitan
en algunos de los espacios naturales más expuestos a riesgo,
como son colinas, desiertos y llanuras aluviales. El cambio
climático multiplica las amenazas con que se enfrentan los pequeños
agricultores, además de poner en peligro los recursos naturales de los
que dependen y acelerar la degradación del medio ambiente.
La población rural pobre ante la volatilidad y el aumento de los precios de los alimentos
considerablemente a la seguridad alimentaria, tanto en los
hogares como a nivel nacional. Muchas de las personas más
pobres del mundo gastan más de la mitad de sus ingresos en
alimentación. Debido a los aumentos de precio de los
cereales y otros productos de primera necesidad ellas
pueden verse obligadas a reducir la cantidad o calidad de los
alimentos. Esta situación puede provocar inseguridad
alimentaria y malnutrición, con consecuencias dramáticas
tanto a corto como a largo plazo. La desnutrición aumenta
la tasa de enfermedades y mortalidad, disminuye la
productividad y puede producir graves efectos que perduran
toda la vida, especialmente en los niños. Las fuertes subidas
de los precios también pueden limitar la capacidad de los
hogares pobres de cubrir otros gastos no alimentarios, tales
como la educación y la atención sanitaria. Cuando las
subidas de precios se producen a nivel mundial, pueden
afectar a los países de ingresos bajos y que importan
alimentos, ya que ejercen presión sobre sus recursos
financieros de por sí limitados. El aumento de los precios de
los alimentos tiene un impacto particularmente negativo en
la seguridad alimentaria cuando se produce repentinamente
o alcanza niveles extremos.
IFAD and OIC Member States - Working together to eradicate poverty
The long-term partnership between IFAD and OIC Member States and institutions has, in recent years, taken on greater significance than ever before. The challenges are greater than they were three decades ago when IFAD was first established. But the opportunities for making an even bigger impact on the lives of the poor rural people are well within our grasp.
La mujer y el desarrollo rural
empoderamiento social y
económico de las mujeres,
estas pueden convertirse en
una fuerza poderosa del
cambio. En las zonas rurales
del mundo en desarrollo, las
mujeres desempeñan una
función crucial en la gestión de
sus hogares y su contribución
a la producción agrícola es
fundamental. Sin embargo,
las desigualdades entre
mujeres y hombres dificultan
la realización del potencial
de la mujer.
Full proceedings - Feeding future generations - Young rural people today – prosperous, productive farmers tomorrow
Managing weather risk for agricultural development and disaster risk reduction
Nearly 1.4 billion people live on less than US$1.25 a day. Seventy per cent live in rural areas where they depend on agriculture, but where they are also at risk from recurrent natural disasters such as drought and flooding. Natural disasters have a devastating impact on the food security and overall social and economic development of poor rural households.
According to data from Munich Re’s NatCatSERVICE, natural disasters account for losses, on average, of US$51 billion in developing countries every year. Unless well managed, weather risks in agriculture slow development and hinder poverty reduction, ultimately resulting in humanitarian crises. Poor farmers have few options for coping with significant losses, and in order to reduce their exposure to risk, they often forgo opportunities to increase their productivity.
Feeding future generations - Young rural people today – prosperous, productive farmers tomorrow - Concept note
Enabling poor rural to overcome poverty in Viet Nam
IFAD works for and with the poorest people in Viet Nam, including ethnic minorities, small-scale farmers and households headed by women. Strategies to reduce poverty and improve living conditions include building partnerships, strengthening institutional capacity and promoting participation. IFAD works with the government and other partners to empower poor rural people so they can have a role in decisionmaking.
To do this, IFAD finances programmes and projects that focus on developing and testing innovative approaches to poverty reduction that can be replicated and scaled up by the government and other agencies. Interventions are area-based and multisectoral. They target regions where poverty reduction is a priority.
Desertificación
La desertificación se produce cuando se elimina la cubierta de árboles y plantas que dan cohesión al suelo, y tiene lugar cuando se destruyen los árboles y arbustos para obtener leña o madera, o limpiar terreno para cultivarlo; cuando los animales consumen todo el pasto y erosionan la capa superior del suelo con sus pezuñas, y cuando la agricultura intensiva agota los nutrientes del suelo. La erosión causada por el viento y el agua agrava el daño al arrastrar la capa superior del suelo de modo que el terreno se convierte en una mezcla de polvo y arena de muy escasa fertilidad.
Es precisamente la combinación de estos factores lo que hace que la tierra degradada se convierta en desierto.
IFAD, GEF Factsheet
Naciones Unidas dedicado a erradicar la pobreza
rural en los países en desarrollo, el FIDA presta
apoyo a programas y proyectos con importantes
componentes relacionados con la ordenación de los
recursos naturales. En este sentido las actividades
encaminadas a combatir la deforestación, la
degradación de los suelos y la desertificación son
una parte central de las operaciones del Fondo.
En todos los documentos sobre oportunidades
estratégicas nacionales, que rigen las actividades de
préstamo y donación en los distintos países, se
plantea un enfoque integrado para mejorar los
medios de subsistencia mediante un mayor acceso a
los recursos naturales y su ordenación sostenible.
Comprehensive environment and climate change assessment in Viet Nam
This report was prepared for informing IFAD‘s Country Strategic Opportunities Program (COSOP) 2012 – 2017 for Viet Nam. In preparation of this report a brainstorming workshop was held on 9 May 2011 in Hanoi bringing together key national research institutes working on climate change (CC) and environment related issues, ministries of agriculture and environment and bilateral and multilateral donors.
Change Africa from within
Marcamos la diferencia
extrema, que subsisten con menos de 1,25 dólares estadounidenses al
día. Alrededor de 1 000 millones de esos hombres, mujeres y niños
viven en las zonas rurales de los países en desarrollo.
Cerca de 2 000 millones de habitantes de las zonas rurales sobreviven
con menos de 2 dólares al día. Se trata, en su gran mayoría, de pequeños
agricultores y sus familiares, que dependen de la agricultura como medio
de vida.
En la actualidad, esas personas tienen que afrontar cambios rápidos y sin
precedentes: el cambio climático, el crecimiento demográfico mundial y la
volatilidad de los precios de los alimentos y la energía están sumiendo
cada vez a más personas en la pobreza extrema y el hambre.
Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty in Syria
IFAD works in partnership with the government, other donors, NGOs, local institutions and civil society organizations. It finances initiatives which enable poor rural people in Syria’s agricultural settlement areas to improve their incomes and living conditions.
IFAD is working towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals and its interventions endeavour to reduce poverty and promote gender equality and environmental sustainability.
Eritrea - Catchments and landscape management project
restore vegetative cover and habitat diversity in areas of degraded rangelands,
forests and woodlands; and increase biodiversity within crop, livestock and
forest production landscapes.
Niger - Agricultural and rural rehabilitation and development initiative
Initiative, which will complement the ongoing IFAD-financed Agricultural and
Rural Rehabilitation and Development Initiative Project (ARRDI), will similarly
focus on southern Niger’s Maradi region – home to 20 per cent of the nation’s
population – targeting poor and extremely poor communities vulnerable to
environmental risk, with special emphasis on women and youth.
Ethiopia Community-based integrated natural resources management in Lake Tana watershed
chronically or periodically food insecure. Agriculture generates approximately 50 per cent of the GDP and 90 per cent of export earnings. Despite its importance, agricultural performance has improved little over the past 50 years and food security has deteriorated. Low agricultural productivity and chronic food insecurity are direct results of the ongoing degradation of natural resources in the
Ethiopian highlands.
Community-driven development decision tools for rural development programmes
First mile project - factsheet 3
Mobile signal coverage is expanding fast. More and more people own and use mobile phones and some are finding innovative ways to use them to enhance their earning potential. In the Republic of Tanzania, Internet connectivity is evolving rapidly, but few people in rural areas have access to the technology. The use of mobile phones and text messages, or SMS, is still far more widespread than e-mail. Yet the speed of change is dramatic. Communication technologies that allow wireless access within a 30-km radius are being extended throughout Tanzania and tests are verifying the feasibility of using GPRS modems in remote districts.
“It was important that we adapt quickly, looking for ways to ensure that everybody benefits
from these changes,” says Clive Lightfoot, technical advisor of the First Mile Project. “We want
to make certain that groups of people are not left behind and that the revolution is also
directed towards reducing rural poverty.”
Fighting water scarcity in the Arab countries
The Arab countries account for more than 5 per cent of the world’s population, but less than 1 per cent of global water resources. And as a consequence of the phenomena associated with climate change, the region is facing an even greater water shortage.
For 30 years now, IFAD and its partners in the region have worked to develop effective, replicable solutions to help poor rural communities manage their scarce water resources. More than half of IFAD’s programmes and projects in the region include a focus on water.
Dar a la población rural pobre de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela la oportunidad de salir de la pobreza
El FIDA ha aprobado seis préstamos para la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, por un monto aproximado de USD 80 millones. También ha aprobado dos donaciones de asistencia técnica, en 1991 y 1998 respectivamente, para el Programa Regional de
Capacitación en Desarrollo Rural, cuya ejecución estuvo a cargo de la Fundación para la Capacitación e Investigación Aplicada a la Reforma Agraria (CIARA), adscrita al Ministerio del Poder Polar para la Agricultura y Tierras.
El mandato del FIDA de reducir la pobreza mejorando las condiciones de vida y aumentando los ingresos de la población rural pobre afronta importantes desafíos y oportunidades. El FIDA trabaja en asociación con el Gobierno y otros donantes para financiar programas y proyectos destinados a la población más pobre, en particular los pequeños agricultores, los campesinos sin tierra, los pueblos indígenas y las minorías étnicas, así como a las mujeres del medio rural en general. Uno de los principales asociados del FIDA en los proyectos de desarrollo rural más recientes, la Fundación CIARA, cumple una función importante como administrador de programas de desarrollo en nombre del Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Agricultura y Tierras de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela.
IFAD and rural water investments
IFAD is currently engaged in over 230 loan operations in 85 countries. About two thirds of that portfolio is related to community-based natural resource management.
Poor rural people and their institutions are at the core of this approach. Water is critical to these men and women pastoralists, fishers, farmers, young and old, part- or full-time, urban or rural, indigenous, tribal or otherwise often marginalized people. It is the key entry point for improving their livelihoods.
Interventions for improving livelihoods
Climate change represents an additional challenge to rural people in SSA – and a further reason for investment in water control. Smallholder farmers, pastoralists and artisanal fishers are among the most vulnerable to this threat.
While projections of changes in annual rainfall vary across Africa, these groups will experience the negative effects of increased temperature and
extreme events. For them, enhanced control of water will become critical in building resilience to increased climate variability.
Reinforcing gender equity
La pobreza rural en Uruguay
El trabajo del FIDA en Uruguay se desarrolla en dos niveles distintos aunque complementarios:
• a nivel subregional, en el marco de las instituciones del MERCOSUR, promueve una plataforma de diálogo entre gobiernos y asociaciones de pequeños productores, con el fin de aumentar la relevancia política de la agricultura familiar y la inversión pública en su favor;
• a nivel nacional, proporciona financiación y asistencia técnica al gobierno para la ejecución de programas y proyectos que traduzcan en acciones las políticas públicas definidas en el ámbito de la subregión y adaptadas al contexto del país.
IFAD and GEF partnership on climate change - Fighting a global challenge at the local level
There is a general consensus that rural areas and rural livelihood systems
will bear the brunt of climate change across the globe. More frequent
extreme weather events such as heat waves and intense precipitation are
likely to place the livelihoods of many rural people at risk. Africa is
expected to be the most vulnerable continent to climate change, and will
face a decline in both food security and agricultural activity, particularly
in relation to subsistence farming.
The impact of climate change on agriculture is expected to be
devastating in many parts of the developing world. Especially in the
least developed countries, declining crop productivity and livestock deaths
associated with further global warming pose a serious threat to food
security and national economies.
Nonetheless, vulnerability to climate change can be exacerbated by poverty,
marginality and low adaptive capacity. An integrated approach is
therefore needed to bridge the gap between local development and the
global challenge of climate change.
MfDR at IFAD - an integrated system
IFAD, the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa's Development
Development (NEPAD) since they were established in July 2001, seeking new ways to combat rural
poverty across the continent. African leaders created NEPAD to promote sustainable development
and strengthen efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the international
community’s time-bound targets to meet the needs of the world’s poorest people. Within the
framework of NEPAD, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) was
prepared in June 2002.
Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty in Lesotho
The main objectives of IFAD’s operations in the country are to improve food security and family nutrition. Since 1980, IFAD has supported agricultural development by investing a total of US$64.3 million in seven programmes and projects to reduce poverty in the country’s rural areas.
Normally, Lesotho is not in a position to grow enough food to feed its growing population.
Offsetting the effects on poor households of declining agricultural production, IFAD investments support the efforts of small-scale farmers to ensure food security for their families and improve their incomes. Increased productivity is a key to achieving these aims and to reducing poverty in rural areas. IFAD finances programmes and projects that encourage poor people’s participation in the planning and development of income-generating activities, including microenterprises.
IFAD' s Action Plan for Improving its Development Effectiveness
Initiative de développement agricole et rural pour le Sahel (SARDI)
Le SARDI est une réponse concertée, à la fois à court et à long termes, aux causes structurelles profondes des crises alimentaires dans la sous-région sahélienne, traduisant un engagement à en finir avec le spectre de la famine et la résurgence des crises.
L’initiative contribuera à réduire la pauvreté des ménages et à prévenir l’insécurité alimentaire conjoncturelle et la malnutrition à travers :
• l’accroissement de la production agricole, de la productivité et l’amélioration de l’accès des producteurs au marché
• l’amélioration des systèmes d’alerte précoce des Etats et le développement de systèmes de gestion des crises
Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty in Swaziland
IFAD’s intention is to help poor rural households by creating sustainable jobs, reducing poverty and guaranteeing food security. To meet this goal IFAD places emphasis on intensifying agricultural output and supporting smallholders within irrigation schemes, as well as helping develop small rural businesses. In particular, IFAD works to improve linkages to financial services and markets, to support providers of financial and marketing services and to strengthen the capacity of poor rural communities and their institutions.
The Government of Swaziland, key stakeholders and IFAD are jointly designing a new investment focusing on rural finance and enterprise development.
Investing in rural people in Comoros
Le FIDA prend appui sur les communautés et leurs organisations pour développer des activités génératrices d’emploi, agricole ou non, et de revenus. Les cultures vivrières, la production laitière et la recherche de débouchés commerciaux pour ces produits dans les quatre îles de l’archipel feront l’objet d’une attention particulière, ainsi que la conservation et la transformation locale des produits.
En ce qui concerne les cultures de rente, le FIDA financera sous forme de don la mise en relation des producteurs avec les marchés équitables.
Improving marketing strategies in Western and Central Africa
Vincular la gobernanza de la tierra y la del agua
Garantizar a los pobres de las zonas rurales el acceso tanto a la tierra como al agua es fundamental para alcanzar los objetivos de desarrollo del Milenio, en especial la meta de reducir a la mitad para 2015 el número de personas que viven en situación de pobreza extrema y padecen hambre, la mayoría de las cuales dependen de la agricultura para su sustento.
Sin embargo, en los debates internacionales las cuestiones de la tierra y el agua se siguen abordando por separado, y en ellos se considera un problema la notable utilización de agua para uso agrícola.
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elaboradores y otros agentes de las zonas rurales pobres aprenden a crear cadenas de
comercialización que vinculan a los productores con los consumidores. La existencia de buenos
medios de comunicación es un factor fundamental. En el marco del proyecto se alienta a las
personas que viven en comunidades rurales aisladas a utilizar teléfonos móviles, correo
electrónico e Internet para compartir sus experiencias y buenas prácticas locales y aprender así
unas de otras. Si bien la tecnología de las comunicaciones es importante, la clave del éxito
depende del fomento de la confianza y la colaboración a lo largo de las cadenas de
comercialización. El objetivo final consiste en que los agricultores y otros agentes que participan
en esas cadenas adquieran experiencia y conocimientos importantes a nivel local y los compartan,
incluso con personas que viven en comunidades alejadas, para encontrar nuevas ideas
A multifaceted field collaboration among FAO, IFAD and WFP
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para los pequeños agricultores que necesitan mejorar su acceso
a los mercados y a información fiable sobre los precios, la
calidad de los productos y las condiciones de comercialización.
¿Qué ayuda pueden prestarles las nuevas tecnologías de la
información y las comunicaciones (TIC) y en particular
Internet? La iniciativa Primera Milla es un proyecto
experimental de dos años de duración apoyado por el
Gobierno de Suiza. Se ejecuta en colaboración con el Programa
de Desarrollo de Sistemas de Comercialización Agrícola del
Gobierno de la República Unida de Tanzanía. El Grupo
Internacional de Apoyo presta asistencia técnica.
Conflicto
al menos 80 guerras en todo el
mundo. Aunque los conflictos
violentos de hoy surgen en
lugares distintos, las semejanzas
entre ellos son sorprendentes:
casi todos son guerras civiles
y la mayoría de las víctimas son
civiles, no combatientes.
La mayoría de estos conflictos internos ocurren
en países pobres, lo que obstaculiza su desarrollo.
De hecho, más de la mitad de los países en los
que operan actualmente organismos
internacionales de desarrollo están en guerra.
Desgraciadamente, la mayoría de estos conflictos
tienen un carácter duradero, no son emergencias
temporales. Los conflictos de hoy duran por
término medio unos ocho años, el doble que
los conflictos anteriores a 1980, y en ellos perecen
muchas más personas por hambre y enfermedades
que en el enfrentamiento bélico en sí mismo.
La erradicación de la pobreza rural como primer paso para luchar contra la desertificación
La degradación de la tierra —causada muchas veces por actividades humanas como el cultivo excesivo, la deforestación, el sobrepastoreo y el crecimiento demográfico— afecta a más de 1 000 millones de personas y al 40% de la superficie de la Tierra. La desertificación se produce cuando esa degradación ocurre en tierras áridas donde el suelo es particularmente frágil, las precipitaciones son mínimas y el clima, inclemente.
La desertificación incide directamente en las vidas de 650 millones de personas en 110 países. Contrariamente a la creencia popular, se trata de un proceso que a menudo se puede invertir. Hay muchas maneras de combatir la desertificación, por ejemplo mediante la aplicación de
tecnologías de utilización de la tierra y estrategias de uso del agua apropiadas. Sin embargo, uno de los métodos más eficaces para combatir la desertificación es erradicar la pobreza.
Potenciar la capacidad de acción de los pobres de las zonas rurales mediante el acceso a la tierra
Enabling the rural poor to overcome their poverty
and a specialized United Nations agency
dedicated to eradicating poverty and hunger
in rural areas of developing countries.
Through low-interest loans and grants, it
develops and finances programmes and
projects that enable poor rural people to
overcome poverty themselves.
El FIDA y las ONG - Asociaciones dinámicas para luchar contra la pobreza rural
La colaboración del FIDA con las ONG comenzó poco después de la creación del Fondo, cuando apoyó el
Proyecto de Crédito Agrícola a Pequeños Agricultores, en Bangladesh.
En 1976, una ONG dirigida por el profesor Mohammed Yunus, de la Universidad de Chittagong, introdujo
un enfoque innovador para la concesión de créditos a los pobres del medio rural, especialmente a las mujeres y
los campesinos sin tierra, en una aldea. La formación de pequeños grupos a través de los cuales se concedían
préstamos y se impartía capacitación era el rasgo central de la iniciativa. El servicio se hacía llegar a los
lugareños por medio de oficiales de crédito itinerantes, y la supervisión efectiva de la recuperación de los
préstamos permitió alcanzar tasas de
reembolso cercanas al 98%.