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Ndongo Samba Sylla: Le commerce équitable et le défi de la transformation rurale durable
marzo 2016
Ndongo Samba Sylla, economiste du développement: Le commerce équitable. La plupart d'entre vous en ont certainement déjà entendu parler. Je parie même que certains parmi vous ont déjà acheté un produit CE dans un supermarché ou commandé une tasse de café CE.
Kari Niedfeldt-Thomas: Essential elements
marzo 2016
Kari Niedfeldt-Thomas, Senior Manager, Social Responsibility, and Executive Director, The Mosaic Company Foundation: I would like all of you to imagine a world where everyone has enough food to eat, especially smallholder farmers and their families.
Maximo Torero: Connectivity, content and kids
marzo 2016
Maximo Torero, Director of the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): What I am going to talk about today is a little bit different. I am going to talk about the consumer, which will be the small farmer, the producer and the supply of information to them, how this demand is governed by the supply of information and technology for them to have access to that information.
Gunnar Rundgren: The cost of cheap food
marzo 2016
Gunnar Rundgren, author and former President, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements: Thank you so much. This banana is bought across the street for 36 cents. This banana is bought across the street in the same shop for 66 cents, so how come?
Kari Huhtala: Essential elements
marzo 2016
Kari Huhtala, Helsinki Pellervo Society, Cooperative Director: Good afternoon to everybody. These days many people are concerned about food and the food chain, if the food is safe and healthy or if it is too expensive or too cheap.
Gabriela Soto Muñoz: Empowering farmers while going organi
marzo 2016
Gabriela Soto Muñoz, Eco-LOGICA, President: Thank you very much. Good afternoon to everyone. Thank you especially to IFAD for this wonderful opportunity to talk about the link between the consumer and the producers, and the organic certification. To do that I want to take you to three moments in history.
Emma Naluyima: In praise of pigs
marzo 2016
Emma Naluyima - Smallholder farmer and veterinarian: I wake up every morning at 4 a.m. to hold a board meeting with my pigs. They say to me, if you take care of us we shall take care of you all the way to the barn.
Beatrice Makwenda: The future belongs to organised farmers
marzo 2016
Beatrice Makwenda, Policy and Programmes Coordinator of the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM):
Chris Davis: A fair change experience
marzo 2016
Chris Davis, Fairtrade International: Good morning. I would like to take you back in time 25 years to Oaxaca State in Mexico. A very sudden and rapid drop in world coffee prices as a result of subsidized overproduction, forced thousands upon thousands of small farmers to abandon their farms and migrate in search of work. Behind them, they left broken families and shattered communities
Apollinaire Djikeng: Lessons from the ugly pig
marzo 2016
Apollinaire Djikeng, Director of the Biosciences eastern and central Africa - International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub: For many years I have kept a personal association and a personal importance to livestock.
Andrew Rugasira: Farmers and private sector - key to rural transformation
marzo 2016
Andrew Rugasira, Founder and CEO of Good African Coffee: Allow me to set the scene for my talk with some statistics. Every day, 1.6 billion cups of coffee are consumed in the world. The producer countries, that is, Brazil with 37 million bags every year, Viet Nam with 24 million bags every year, right down to my own country Uganda with 3 million bags, earn US$24 billion a year from their coffee.
The Camelid Solution
marzo 2016
Guillermo Vila Melo, Agronomist and founding member of the Association of Camelid of Argentina (ACA): As Ms Samii said, I shall be introducing you to my very first love, llamas and alpacas. Llamas on your right-hand side and alpacas on your left.
Stories from the field
febrero 2016
Nepalese migrants send home $1.5 billion every year - over 20% of the country's GDP. Many of the women here rely on these remittances to survive. Now Savings and Credit Organisations, supported by IFAD and the Nepal Center for Micro-Finance, are facilitating safe money transfers and encouraging people to save. This is transforming villages like Makrahar where, for the first time, people are able to access credit.
Recipes for Change: Tuna with Taro Leaves
noviembre 2015
In this episode of Recipes for Change, Fiji's favorite chef, Lance Seeto, discovers how prolonged drought is threatening taro - Tonga's staple ingredient - when he joins a local farmer to cook Luu Ika (tuna with taro leaves).
Burundi: Justice for Maura
noviembre 2015
Burundi's civil war may have ended more than two decades ago, but violence in the country continues. Many of its victims are women, whose rights under the law are often ignored. Now a unique legal aid programme is helping thousands of women like Maura Ntukamazina learn about the law and reclaim their rights.
Uganda: Imagine your life differently
octubre 2015
Twenty thousand families in 13 districts of Uganda are now imagining their lives differently. By creating a shared vision, husbands and wives are not only finding ways to break out of their poverty, but they are discovering the value of equality in their homes.
IFAD and Shamba Shape-Up
mayo 2015
With the fourth and latest series of Shamba Shape-Up, Kenya's most watched agriculture TV show, IFAD staff have been talking to smallholder farmers about a range of practical issues, from cow care and livestock resilience to climate-change adaption.
Nicole Mason: The scope on fertilizer subsides
mayo 2015
icole Mason, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University: It is a great pleasure to be here. I want to start out in Southern Zambia, we have two farmers' fields here.
How courage brigades have transformed community life in Madhya Pradesh, India
enero 2015
In thousands of villages across the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, women are standing up for their rights.
Asociación con Intel para proporcionar información agrícola a los agricultores de Camboya
septiembre 2014
Intel Corporation y el FIDA se han asociado para aumentar el acceso de los pequeños agricultores a la información a través del nuevo software de Intel que ayudará a los agricultores a tomar decisiones bien fundamentadas sobre la selección de semillas y fertilizantes, la planificación de la cosecha y la gestión de ventas.
Bangladesh: Small fish, big gains
junio 2014
In a country where over 20 million people are estimated to be deficient in essential vitamins and minerals, eating small nutrient-rich fish can make a vital difference.
Viet Nam: Adapting in the Delta
mayo 2014
Vietnam is the world's second largest exporter of rice and 60 percent of it is grown in the Mekong Delta. But now farmers in at least two provinces say the future of rice production is threatened because of rising sea levels and temperature increases attributed to climate change.
Bolivia: The Alpaca Connection
noviembre 2013
On Bolivia's high Andean plain, 4,500 metres above sea level, alpacas and llamas are becoming big business for poor ranchers.
Burkina Faso: Waiting for the rain
septiembre 2013
Weather patterns are becoming more unpredictable in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso. Farmers say the rainy season that once began regularly in June is often delayed and when the rain finally does come the sudden force and volume of water can cause flooding and destroy crops.
The Gambia: Reclaiming the Land
diciembre 2012
In The Gambia, women often farm on degraded, unproductive land. The more fertile land is usually reserved for men. But things are changing.
Kenya: Growing with the Flow
diciembre 2012
Like thousands of poor farmers living on the slopes of East Mount Kenya, Christine Mugure Munene used to depend on seasonal rains to water her crops. Now she has water whenever she wants.