Recursos

One of IFAD’s most significant partnerships is with the Member States of the OPEC and the OIC.1 These countries, spread over three geographic regions – the Near East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia – have been active partners and strong supporters of IFAD, both as contributing countries and as recipients of financing for development projects. IFAD also works in close partnership with many Arab and Islamic development institutions and funds in the financing, design, implementation and monitoring of its rural development projects.
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.

El programa de encadenamientos empresariales de AGEXPORT tiene como objectivo principal la generación de empleo e ingresos en comunidades en condiciones  de pobreza de Guatemala por medio de la creación de negocios exitosos basados en la asistencia técnica especializada, inteligencia de mercados, promoción comercial, capacitación e inovación tecnológica, una visión de manejo sostenible de los recursos naturales.

En tierras antes estériles del desierto egipcio, Ahmad Abdelmunem Al-Far y otros agricultores colegas suyos están demostrando cómo la agricultura orientada al mercado puede transformar las vidas y sacar a la gente de la pobreza.

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. 

 

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.

En consonancia con su mandato de ampliar la cobertura de los servicios financieros a las zonas rurales, el Fondo de financiación para remesas (FFR) es uno de los principales referentes en la puesta a prueba de modelos que permiten transferir los fondos de los migrantes a las familias receptoras de forma rápida, segura, conveniente y al menor costo posible. 

Una grave crisis alimentaria amenaza actualmente el Sudán meridional. En África oriental, donde millones de personas ya dependen de la ayuda alimentaria, se avecina un fuerte incremento de los precios de los productos agrícolas básicos. Estos no son más que los últimos motivos de preocupación en este período turbulento que se inició hace dos años, cuando muchos países de África y Asia se vieron afectados por situaciones de escasez de alimentos causadas por el alza de los precios a nivel mundial. El aumento de los precios de los alimentos sumió aún más en la pobreza a personas que ya tenían dificultades para satisfacer las necesidades básicas para la supervivencia humana. Inmediatamente después llegó la crisis financiera mundial, cuyos efectos también fueron más graves para los pobres. En la mayoría de países en desarrollo la agricultura es el sector que emplea más personas y el que genera más puestos de trabajo y el mayor nivel de exportaciones. El sector agrícola es el que siempre ha impulsado la economía de muchos países, generando un crecimiento que ha demostrado ser por lo menos dos veces más eficaz para reducir la pobreza que el de otros sectores. Así pues, las inversiones en el desarrollo agrícola y rural son vitales para la seguridad alimentaria y el desarrollo económico sostenible.

The objective of IFAD Decision Tools for Rural Finance is to provide decision-making support for the IFAD country programme managers (CPMs), consultants, project staff and technical advisers who develop and implement rural finance projects. Built on the IFAD Rural Finance Policy (RFP) (IFAD 2009), as well as other good practice guides, this knowledge management tool is designed to help identify and answer the questions that arise in each rural finance project, provide background on key issues, define common terms, highlight risks and opportunities, and provide references for further investigation. 

El riesgo es inherente a la agricultura. Los agricultores enfrentan una variedad de riesgos de producción y de mercado que hace que sus ingresos sean inestables e impredecibles de un año a otro. 

 Since 1982, IFAD has supported seven projects in Syria with loans totalling US$126.2 million for projects with a total value of US$474 million. The organization has also provided a number of grants, including technical assistance grants to support women’s empowerment.

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.