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Collection Research, numéro 92. L’atténuation des changements climatiques en Afrique orientale et australe: un argumentaire économique en faveur des secteurs de l’agriculture, des forêts et autres utilisations des terres
Ce rapport sert de guide pour orienter les investissements réalisés par le FIDA et d’autres donateurs internationaux en faveur des actions d’atténuation des changements climatiques en Afrique orientale et australe.
Collection Research, numéro 91. Lutter contre le surpoids et l’obésité dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire dans une perspective axée sur le développement rural et les systèmes alimentaires
Cette étude présente les conclusions d’un examen de la littérature spécialisée et les principaux facteurs de surpoids et d’obésité, en les mettant en regard avec les systèmes alimentaires et en donnant des exemples tirés de la situation dans cinq pays.
Collection Research, numéro 90. Quarante ans de transformations rurales, de hausse des revenus et de baisse de la pauvreté dans les provinces de Chine
Ces quarante dernières années, la Chine a connu une transformation rurale rapide, qui s’est accompagnée d’une hausse des revenus des ménages ruraux et d’une baisse de la pauvreté rurale. Ce document étudie la transformation rurale qui a touché les provinces du pays et ses principales conséquences.
Collection Research, numéro 89. Intégrer l’effet des variables climatiques et météorologiques dans les évaluations de l’impact: application à un projet d’adaptation aux changements climatiques mis en œuvre au Viet Nam par le FIDA
Cet article nous renseigne sur les variables climatiques à recueillir, et sur les sources à consulter pour les obtenir, lors de l’élaboration d’une évaluation de l’impact.
Collection Research, numéro 88. Les effets des changements climatiques sur la production animale au Mozambique
Cet article porte notamment sur les activités visant à améliorer la gestion des pâturages, les sources d’alimentation animale complémentaires et le développement de la filière de l’élevage.
Collection Research, numéro 87. Tenir compte des variables relatives au climat et à la météo dans les évaluations de l’impact
Les auteurs de cette étude élaborent une stratégie méthodologique pour tenir compte des conditions météorologiques et des conditions climatiques à long terme dans le cadre des évaluations de l’impact, en s’appuyant sur un projet de stockage des céréales exécuté au Tchad et soutenu par le FIDA.
Collection Research, numéro 86. Intégrer l’incidence des variables climatiques et météorologiques dans les évaluations de l’impact
Cet article propose un cadre méthodologique pour intégrer les conditions météorologiques actuelles et les tendances climatiques à long terme dans les études d’impact.
IFAD11 Impact Assessment Report
IFAD measures the impact of its investments by systematically conducting impact assessments on a sample of projects closing during each replenishment period.
Collection Research, numéro 85. Financer l’adaptation aux changements climatiques et des moyens d’existence agricoles résilients
Le défi actuel de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques et des efforts de renforcement de la résilience est de passer à un processus qui contribue à améliorer, et non à menacer, les moyens d’existence.
Collection Research, numéro 84. La production d’élevage dans les systèmes alimentaires circulaires tropicaux
Les auteurs de cet article présentent le rôle des animaux d’élevage dans les systèmes alimentaires circulaires des régions tropicales avec quatre études de cas.
Collection Research, numéro 83. L’avenir de l’agriculture: qui produira notre nourriture?
Les auteurs de ce rapport étudient les tendances passées et explorent les trajectoires futures possibles de l’agriculture à petite échelle afin de déterminer le profil des agriculteurs de demain.
Collection Research, numéro 82. Contributions des technologies de l'information et de la communication à la transformation des systèmes alimentaires
Grâce à une analyse des systèmes alimentaires, les auteurs de cette étude examinent les données existantes et déterminent les conditions, les groupes de population rurale et les délais nécessaires pour parvenir aux résultats visés.
Collection Research, numéro 81. Les systèmes alimentaires et hydriques dans les régions semi-arides – étude de cas: l’Égypte
Les auteurs de cette étude explorent le rôle de l’eau dans le système alimentaire égyptien et le dilemme auquel fait face le pays: améliorer l’autosuffisance alimentaire en allouant une part des ressources en eau douce du Nil à la production alimentaire ou dépendre des importations alimentaires de régions du monde où l’eau est disponible en abondance.
Collection Research, numéro 80. Comment permettre à différents types de petits producteurs de matières premières de gagner décemment leur vie?
Cet article montre que les interventions à court et moyen termes sont les plus efficaces pour améliorer les moyens d’existence des agriculteurs pauvres, notamment leur sécurité alimentaire et leur santé, l’emploi hors exploitation et l’assistance sociale.
Collection Research, numéro 79. La place des cultures de bananes et de cacao destinées à l’exportation dans l’analyse des systèmes alimentaires tenant particulièrement compte du rôle des mécanismes de certification
Les auteurs de cette étude se penchent sur les critères et les mécanismes de certification de deux produits d’exportation — les bananes et le cacao — en s’appuyant sur une analyse des systèmes alimentaires.
Collection Research 78 – La révolution silencieuse des petites et moyennes entreprises discrètement au cœur des systèmes alimentaires des régions en développement
Les auteurs étudient ici la place de plus en plus prépondérante qu’occupent les PME dans la transformation des systèmes alimentaires, les faisant passer d’une structure traditionnelle, à une phase de transition jusqu’à une structure moderne.
Collection Research 77 - Le rôle des échanges et des politiques publiques dans le renforcement de la sécurité alimentaire
Pour bâtir des filières alimentaires compétitives et inclusives, un pays doit se doter de politiques macroéconomiques à même d’améliorer l’environnement économique du secteur agricole et de créer des débouchés extérieurs, ainsi que de mesures ciblées propres à ce secteur afin de promouvoir la participation des petits exploitants aux filières compétitives en réduisant les coûts d’accès aux marchés.
Collection Research 76 – Produire des aliments fermentés traditionnels à plus grande échelle pour créer des filières et promouvoir l’entrepreneuriat féminin
Cette étude explore la manière dont la transformation traditionnelle des aliments fermentés peut être pratiquée à plus grande échelle, tout en améliorant les propriétés fonctionnelles des produits et en renforçant les filières locales.
Collection Research 75 – Raisonnement inversé: penser la transformation des systèmes alimentaires par le prisme d’une alimentation saine
Les auteurs de cette étude avancent que la transformation des systèmes alimentaires devrait tenir compte des régimes alimentaires en s’appuyant sur des données relatives à l'alimentation, aux tendances en la matière, aux motivations des consommateurs et aux caractéristiques de l’environnement alimentaire.
Collection Research 74 – Autonomisation des femmes, systèmes alimentaires et nutrition
Cette étude s’intéresse aux liens entre l’autonomisation des femmes, les systèmes alimentaires et la nutrition.
Collection Research 73 – Systèmes alimentaires et bien-être rural: défis et opportunités
Ce document fournit un cadre d'évaluation de la dynamique du bien-être en zones rurales et de l'évolution des systèmes alimentaires.
Collection Research, numéro 72. Changements climatiques et activités des systèmes alimentaires: examen des tendances en matière d’émissions, des effets des changements climatiques et des répercussions de la modification des habitudes alimentaires
Cet article s’intéresse à la façon dont les activités du système alimentaire influent sur les changements climatiques et à l’effet de la modification des habitudes alimentaires sur les systèmes alimentaires. Il montre que les émissions provenant de la production alimentaire augmentent dans la plupart des régions, contrairement à celles liées au changement d’affectation des terres, qui baissent.
Collection Research, numéro 71. Urbanisation des systèmes alimentaires: étudier les possibilités en matière de transformation rurale
Cet article démontre que si la hausse prévue d’ici 2050 de la demande alimentaire peut être largement comblée à l’échelle régionale, l’éventuelle augmentation ou diversification des rendements ne garantira pas automatiquement l’inclusivité de la transformation rurale. L’urbanisation peut au contraire renforcer la pauvreté et les inégalités en milieu rural.
Collection Research, numéro 70. Assurer la transformation des systèmes alimentaires, mais pas au détriment des populations rurales pauvres
Si le rôle majeur joué par l’inclusion dans la transformation des systèmes alimentaires est de plus en plus compris, les recherches et discours récents sur le sujet sont insuffisants, et des mesures doivent être prises pour garantir que la transformation ne se fasse pas au détriment des populations rurales pauvres.
Collection Research, numéro 69. Transformation structurelle et rurale et systèmes alimentaires: synthèse quantitative pour les pays à faible revenu et à revenu intermédiaire
Cet article s’appuie sur des données portant sur 85 pays à faible revenu et à revenu intermédiaire pour présenter l’indice relatif aux systèmes alimentaires et analyser les liens entre systèmes alimentaires, transformation structurelle et rurale et répartition des populations.
Collection Research, numéro 68. Mise en place d’un indice relatif aux systèmes alimentaires pour mieux comprendre les processus de transformation
Cet article étudie la possibilité de créer un indice relatif aux systèmes alimentaires (FSI) qui aurait vocation à refléter plusieurs éléments clés influençant les différences de performances des systèmes alimentaires à l’échelle nationale.
Collection Research, numéro 67. Vers une transformation des systèmes alimentaires – cinq changements de paradigme pour des systèmes alimentaires sains, inclusifs et durables
Cet article met l’accent sur cinq changements de paradigme indispensables pour dépasser les compromis et créer des synergies entre santé et nutrition, moyens d’existence inclusifs, viabilité environnementale et résilience des systèmes alimentaires.
Renforcement des systèmes alimentaires du Pacifique aux fins de riposte face à la COVID-19 – effets, interventions et débouchés clés pour reconstruire en mieux
Ce rapport propose une analyse approfondie des défis liés à la sécurité alimentaire et à la nutrition avant la pandémie dans les îles du Pacifique, et présente les mesures clés devant être prises pour faire face aux répercussions actuelles, éclairer la planification de la riposte à moyen et long terme et mieux se préparer aux crises futures.
Climate adaptation and mitigation measures for nutrition co-benefits in IFAD investments in Ghana
This report describes the findings of the country study carried out for the design of IFAD project on Livelihood and Productivity Enhancement of Smallholder Farmers (PROSPER) in Ghana.
Food-system interventions with climate change and nutrition co-benefits: a literature review
This literature review report explores the conceptual linkages between climate change and nutrition using a food system approach.
Climate adaptation and mitigation measures for nutrition co-benefits in IFAD investments in Zimbabwe
This report describes the findings of the country study carried out for the design of IFAD Smallholder Agriculture Cluster Project (SACP) in Zimbabwe.
Climate adaptation and mitigation measures for nutrition co-benefits in IFAD investments in Lesotho
This report describes the findings of the country study carried out for the design of IFAD project on Restoration of Landscapes and Livelihoods (ROLL P) in Lesotho.
Research Series Issue 65: Impacts of agricultural value chain development in a mountainous region: Evidence from Nepal
This analysis investigates the potential mechanism and the practical significance of the impacts of agricultural value chain development in a geographically challenging rural area of a developing country.
Innovation Catalogue
The Innovation Catalogue showcases a set of 23 solutions to challenges faced by small-scale producers in East and Southern Africa.
Utiliser les envois de fonds pour gérer les risques agricoles: le cas du Sénégal
Cette étude explique le rôle des envois de fonds dans la gestion des risques agricoles.
Research Series Issue 64: How the adoption of drought-tolerant rice varieties impacts households in a non-drought year: Evidence from Nepal
Stress-tolerant rice varieties (STRVs) are bred to be high yielding and tolerant to climate shocks such as drought.
Digital gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Impact Assessment: Strengthening Local Development in the Highlands and High Rainforest Areas Project (PSSA)
Research Series Issue 63: The adoption of improved agricultural technologies - A meta-analysis for Africa
L’État de la sécurité alimentaire et de la nutrition dans le monde 2020
Transformer les systèmes alimentaires pour une alimentation saine et abordable.
Research Series Issue 62: The spillover effects of seed producer groups on non-member farmers in mid-hill communities of Nepal
Impact Assessment: Gente de Valor – Rural Communities Development Project in the Poorest Areas of the State of Bahia
The Rural Communities Development in the Poorest Areas of the State of Bahia (Project Gente de Valor) was designed to strengthen the capacity of rural communities to thrive in the drought-prone environment of Brazil's north-east region through improved access to water, increased productive capacity, and empowerment of participating communities.
Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in the Near East and North Africa 2019
Research Series Issue 61: The narrative on rural youth and economic opportunities in Africa: facts, myths and gaps
This paper reviews the narrative on rural youth and economic opportunities in Africa, using a set of policy documents from various African countries and regional and international organizations.
Research Series Issue 60: Investing in rural youth in the Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia
This study reviews the opportunities and challenges facing rural youth in the Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia region.
Research Series Issue 59: The rural youth situation in Latin America and the Caribbean
This study offers a general picture of the situation of rural youth in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Research Series Issue 58: Investing in rural youth in the Asia and the Pacific region
This study characterizes the structural and rural transformation of the Asia and the Pacific region.
Research Series Issue 57: Unlocking the potential of rural youth: the role of policies and institutions
This study presents a framework to analyse the political economy of rural youth policy and institutions’ opportunity space with a quadrant that measures the extent to which rural youth are a priority in policies and institutions versus the extent that governments have to effectively implement rural youth policies.
Research Series Issue 56: The impact of migrants’ remittances and investment on rural youth
This study analyses how migrants positively contribute to the sustainable economic development of rural youth in their countries of origin.
Research Series Issue 55: Rural youth: determinants of migration throughout the world
This study takes a unique look at the determinants of youth migration across seven different countries using recently collected data.
Research Series Issue 54: Rural youth in the context of fragility and conflict
While conflicts are often defined as “development in reverse”, there is a general lack of research focusing specifically on young people living in rural areas.
Research Series Issue 53: Youth access to land, migration and employment opportunities: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
This study examines the intersections between youth access to land, migration decisions and employment opportunities in various African countries.
Research Series Issue 52: Information and communication technologies and rural youth
This analysis reviews existing research on the impact of digital initiatives on youth in the education, agriculture, financial and employment sectors.
Research Series Issue 51: Inclusive finance and rural youth
This study analyses inclusive finance and rural youth through cutting-age research with new insights and approaches that have emerged over the years in the field.
Research Series Issue 50: Rural transformation and the double burden of malnutrition among rural youth in developing countries
In this study, we show that rural transformation processes are associated with improvements in rural youth nutrition – malnutrition and underweight – in nearly all regions, although the pace of change varies considerably across countries.
Research Series Issue 49: Climate and jobs for rural young people
Climate change matters for all young people, especially for those whose livelihoods depend on agriculture. This study shows that adaptation to climate change is feasible and options increase as new technologies and management approaches come on-stream.
Research Series Issue 48: Rural youth, today and tomorrow
Research on rural youth aspirations suggests that many young people are not averse to agriculture as such, but to agriculture’s current neglected condition
Research Series Issue 47: Landscapes of rural youth opportunity
This study is motivated by the consistent portrayal of agriculture and the broader rural economy in Africa as domains of opportunity for rural youth.
Research Series Issue 46: Economic participation of rural youth: what matters?
A key lesson is that lack of technical skills does not seem to be the biggest obstacle youth face in entering the labour force. Evidence on agricultural extension programmes suggests that peer-to-peer learning works best.
Research Series Issue 45: Rural youth inclusion, empowerment and participation
This exploratory study focuses on participation in decision-making processes and how rural youth could benefit from its findings in development projects and initiatives.
Research Series Issue 44: Gender, rural youth and structural transformation: evidence to inform innovative youth programming
This study analyses sex-disaggregated data from various countries to characterize rural youths’ transition to adulthood by gender.
Research Series Issue 43: Youth agrifood system employment in developing countries: a gender-differentiated spatial approach
Little is known about the economic activities of rural youth. This study provides empirical evidence on this gap in literature.
Research Series Issue 42: What drives rural youth welfare? The role of spatial, economic, and household factors
This study uses the concept of the Rural Opportunity Space from economic geography literature to shed light on these questions.
Research Series Issue 41: The demography of rural youth in developing countries
Building on United Nations data, this study analyses how past growth of the youth population was dramatic in Asia and the Pacific, while projections suggest a sharp rise in the youth population of sub-Saharan Africa until 2050.
IFAD10 Impact Assessment: An Overview
To hold itself accountable on progress made in achieving this goal and these three strategic objectives, IFAD has adopted a unique approach to reporting impact at the corporate level, building on rigorous project-level evaluations. This report provides the results of these efforts to assess the corporate impact of IFAD investments for the Tenth Replenishment of IFAD’s Resources (IFAD10) period of 2016-2018.
Research Series Issue 40: Local-economy impacts of cash crop promotion
Research Series Issue 39: Smallholder farming, growth linkages, structural transformation and poverty reduction
Impact assessment: The Coastal Community Development (CCDP)
L’état de la sécurite alimentaire et de la nutrition dans le monde 2019
Research Series Issue 38: Meta-evidence review on the impacts of investments in agricultural and rural development on Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2
Soy papa no papá: Historias de cambios destacables y resultados del proyecto FIDA-CIP Andes
Research Series Issue 37: Determinants of cofinancing in IFAD-funded projects - A call to rethink development interventions
Impact assessment: PAPAFPA and PAPAC
Collection Research Numéro 36: Qui travaille dans l'agriculture?
Impact assessment: Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project (CCRIP)
Impact assessment: Plan VIDA-PEEP to Eradicate Extreme Poverty – Phase I
Research Series Issue 35: Climate change mitigation potential of agricultural practices supported by IFAD investments An ex ante analysis
This study estimates the mitigation potential of agricultural practices supported by IFAD’s current investments in order to provide guidance for the design of future investments.
Research Series Issue 34: Farm size and productivity - Lessons from recent literature
Collection IFAD Results, numéro 3
Impact assessment: Agricultural Sector Development Programme–Livestock (ASDP-L) and Agriculture Service Support Programme (ASSP)
Collection Research, numéro 33 – L'adoption des variétés améliorées du GCRAI et son impact sur les résultats en matière de pauvreté et de niveau de vie: un bilan exhaustif
Impact assessment: Guangxi Integrated Agricultural Development Project
Impact assessment: Rural Development Support Programme in Guéra
Impact assessment: Project for Rural Income through Exports in Rwanda
Impact assessment: Irrigated Rice Production Enhancement Project
Impact assessment: High-Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas
Impact Assessment: Community-based Forestry Development Project in Southern States (DECOFOS)
Impact Assessment: Livestock and Pasture Development Project
Impact assessment: Participatory Small-Scale Irrigation Development Programme
Impact assessment: Agricultural Value Chains Support Project (PAFA)
Collection Research – numéro 32. Developing country-wide farming system typologies: An analysis of Ethiopian smallholders’ income and food security
Ce document a pour but d'aider à comprendre le contexte dans lequel travaillent les petits exploitants.
Collection and analysis of bilateral or tripartite work collaboration in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2012-2017
Research Series Issue 31 - Impact of modern irrigation on household production and welfare outcomes
Research Series Issue 30 - Nutrition-sensitive value chains from a smallholder perspective: A framework for project design
Research Series Issue 29 - Empowering through collective action
This paper explores the conditions for collective action to generate inclusion when agriculture transforms.
L’État de la sécurité alimentaire et de la nutrition dans le monde 2018
Research Series Issue 28 - Understanding the dynamics of adoption decisions and their poverty impacts. The case of improved maize seeds in Uganda
Effective rural development: IFAD’s evidence-based approach to managing for results
This report reflects IFAD’s ongoing efforts to generate evidence to inform decision-making at the corporate and project level.
Research Series Issue 27 - Asia’s rural-urban disparity in the context of growing inequality
Research Series Issue 26 - Exploration of a methodology for assessing the impact of policy engagement. What impact and how to assess it?
Research Series Issue 25 - Structural transformation and poverty in Malawi. Decomposing the effects of occupational and spatial mobility
Research Series Issue 24 - Influence of nutrition-sensitive interventions on dietary profiles of smallholder farming households in East and Southern Africa
This paper aims to explore the influence of nutrition-sensitive interventions on dietary profiles of the beneficiaries of IFAD-funded projects.
Journal of Law and Rural Development - Issue 2: Renewable Energy and Rural Development
The Journal of Law and Rural Development provides a forum where the link between law and rural development can be explored.
Research Series Issue 23 - The Effect of the Sectoral Composition of Economic Growth on Rural and Urban Poverty
Research Series Issue 22 - Poverty reduction during the rural-urban transformation
Research Series Issue 21 - Does relative deprivation induce migration? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Developing nutrition-sensitive value chains in Indonesia
Mapeo Participativo - Diálogos y acuerdos entre actores
Research Series Issue 20 - Transformation and Diversification of the Rural Economy in Asia
Research Series Issue 19 - Measuring Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: A Streamlined Approach
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) can be a useful tool to measure the empowerment, agency and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector. However, computing the WEAI in its current form involves large data requirements, resulting in lengthy surveys with several questions on various dimensions and indicators within each dimension. This paper proposes a reduced version of the WEAI, or the R-WEAI, and examines two possible approaches to reduce the data requirements while ensuring comparability to the full WEAI.
The Marine Advantage: Empowering coastal communities, safeguarding marine ecosystems
Agriculture and fisheries, the backbone of food security and nutrition for coastal communities and globally, are under threat.
Research Series Issue 18 - Do agricultural support and cash transfer programmes improve nutritional status?
Cash transfer and agricultural support programmes are both used to improve nutrition outcomes in developing countries. This paper examines previous reviews of the impact of these programmes and compares the evidence between the two. The paper finds that, although there are about the same number of programmes of each type, many more papers have been written about the cash transfer programmes than the agricultural programmes. While evidence suggests that both programme types improved the quality of food consumption, the paper concludes that both types show weak evidence of improvements in anthropometric outcomes.
Impact Assessment: Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme (SDCP)
The Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme (SDCP) aimed to foster market-driven development of the informal dairy sector in Kenya.
Research Series Issue 17 - Population age structure and sex composition in sub-Saharan Africa: A rural-urban perspective
This study describes the shifting age and sex patterns of populations across rural and urban sectors in sub‑Saharan Africa from 1980 to 2015. It examines the relationship between the slowdown in urbanization and rural and urban age structure gaps, sex composition and dependency ratios. Findings show that rural-urban migration of young adults plays a key role in explaining dependency ratios and sex compositional gaps in rural and urban areas. Results also highlight the value of taking into account local age and sex structures to better prepare for the demographic dividend and other consequences of demographic shifts in sub-Saharan Africa.
L'état de la sécurité alimentaire et de la nutrition dans le monde 2017
Cette année, le rapport sur L’État de la sécurité alimentaire et de la nutrition dans le monde marque l’avènement d’une ère nouvelle de suivi des progrès accomplis pour parvenir à un monde libéré de la faim et de la malnutrition, dans le cadre défini par les objectifs de développement durable (ODD). Plus précisément, le rapport rendra compte désormais des avancées réalisées pour atteindre les cibles associées à l’élimination de la faim et à la prévention de toutes les formes de malnutrition.
Il comportera également des analyses thématiques montrant en quoi la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition sont liées à d’autres cibles des ODD. Le champ d’étude ayant été étendu au thème de la nutrition, le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance (UNICEF) et l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) ont rejoint le groupe de partenaires élaborant habituellement ce rapport annuel, à savoir, la FAO, le Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA) et le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM).
Nous espérons que le partenariat élargi nous aidera à mieux comprendre les diverses dimensions de ce qu’il faut faire pour éliminer la faim et toutes les formes de malnutrition et se traduira par des actions intégrées permettant d’atteindre ce but essentiel.
IFAD Results Series Issue 2
This issue presents and analyses experiences from the following IFAD-funded projects and programmes:
Ethiopia: Pastoral Community Development Project; Nepal: Leasehold Forestry and Livestock Programme; Palestine: Participatory Natural Resource Management Programme; Peru: Project for Strengthening Assets, Markets and Rural Development in the Northern Highlands (Sierra Norte); Sierra Leone: Rehabilitation and Community-based Poverty Reduction Project
Research Series Issue 16 - Getting the most out of impact evaluation for learning, reporting and influence
Research Series Issue 15 - Remittances, growth and poverty reduction in Asia
Remittances have increased in low-income and lower- middle-income countries in recent years, playing an important role as a stable source of finance at the macro-level, and in poverty reduction at the micro-level.
Drawing on a critical review of the literature and econometric analyses based on cross-country panel data, this study examines the relationships among remittances, growth and poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific and highlights policy implications to be considered by governments and policy-makers.
Research Series Issue 14 - Disbursement performance of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
This paper investigates the trends and the influencing factors of IFAD’s project disbursement performance over the past 20 years. Based on data from 577 projects in 111 countries, the study finds that disbursement of funds are often delayed and time-consuming.
Using econometric analysis, the study assesses the internal and external factors affecting the amount and timeliness of disbursements, and provides important lessons on how international financial institutions such as IFAD can better monitor and manage this important aspect of their development effectiveness.
Research Series Issue 13 - Graduation models for rural financial inclusion
Graduation out of chronic poverty has recently been receiving considerable attention by the global development community for its potential synergies with social protection, microfinance and livelihoods development approaches to poverty reduction.
This paper examines the evidence regarding the effectiveness of graduation strategies in reducing extreme poverty, with a focus on rural households, and proposes a new analytical framework to support future work on graduation as a learning and adaptation process in development practice.
Research Series Issue 12 - An evidence-based assessment of IFAD’s end-of-project reporting
Project Completion Reports (PCRs) are a critical tool for development organizations, both for accountability purposes, and as a means of learning from project experience to inform the design of future operations. This paper analyses a sample of PCRs from IFAD to assess the extent to which evidence is used to determine a project's effectiveness in bringing about development.
The report finds that most claims on results are not supported by evidence, and discusses implications for the objective measurement of development effectiveness.
Research Series Issue 11 - Food safety, trade, standards and the integration of smallholders into value chains
This paper analyses how food safety challenges and requirements affect smallholder farmers' access to markets. High food safety standards in destination countries force governments of developing countries to make strategic choices about establishing domestic standards and upgrading the infrastructure and knowledge base of smallholder farmers.
The paper suggests mechanisms that can be used to respond to these challenges, to enable smallholder inclusion in different markets.
IFAD Results Series Issue 1
This issue presents and analyses experiences from the following IFAD-funded projects and programmes:
Brazil: Sustainable Development Project for Agrarian Reform; Settlements in the Semi-arid North-east (Dom Hélder Câmara Project);
China: South Gansu Poverty Reduction Programme;
Ghana: Rural Enterprises Programme; Morocco: Rural Development Project in the Mountain Zones of Al-Haouz Province;
Uganda: Vegetable Oil Development Project.
Journal of Law and Rural Development - Issue 1: Land governance
Research Series Issue 10 - Inclusive finance and inclusive rural transformation
This paper provides an overview of concepts, issues and research on the relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive rural transformation.
It demonstrates how changing demand for financial services, innovations in rural finance, and different investment strategies affect the interplay of supply and demand.
Research Series Issue 9 - Social protection and inclusive rural transformation
This paper analyses how different types of social protection interventions affect rural livelihoods. It examines how these interventions can help rural transformation by increasing productivity and asks how they can influence inclusiveness.
Using country-level evidence, it suggests that the effectiveness of social protection depends upon specific contexts and combinations of interventions, and asks what this means for building policy.
Research Series Issue 8 - Fostering inclusive rural transformation in fragile states and situations
structural and rural transformation? (ii) In three selected case studies of diverse fragile situations (in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Haiti and the Republic of the Sudan – drawing on IFAD financed programme and country experience), what have been the key elements of structural and rural transformation and to what extent has rural transformation been inclusive? (iii) In these cases, how does fragility affect the inclusiveness of rural transformation? Which policies and approaches can successfully promote inclusive rural transformation in
fragile situations?
Research Series Issue 7 - Measuring IFAD's Impact
This paper examines the impact of IFAD-supported projects so as to learn lessons for future projects. It analyses the different methods used by IFAD to measure a project's impact, finds that IFAD is improving the well-being of rural people, and recommends that impact assessments be built into future projects from their inception.
Research Series Issue 6 - Why food and nutrition security matters for inclusive structural and rural transformation
This paper challenges current thinking on the connection between rural transformation and food security & nutrition. It advocates that improving rural and structural transformation has a positive cyclical effect upon communities by improving food availability, access, supplies and utilization which in turn improves the health and education of communities.
Using evidence from across the developing world, the paper creates a policy agenda to maximise potential for smallholder farming to transform local economies.
Rural Development Report 2016: Fostering inclusive rural transformation
The 2016 Rural Development Report focuses on inclusive rural transformation as a central element of the global efforts to eliminate poverty and hunger, and build inclusive and sustainable societies for all. It analyses global, regional and national pathways of rural transformation, and suggests four categories into which most countries and regions fall, each with distinct objectives for rural development strategies to promote inclusive rural transformation: to adapt, to amplify, to accelerate, and a combination of them.
Data on trends in structural transformation, rural transformation and rural poverty
Research Series Issue 5 - Rural-urban linkages and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines the role of rural-urban linkages in fostering inclusive and sustainable food systems and how these contribute to rural transformation and, more broadly, to sustainable and inclusive development. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, the paper analyses the interdependencies between rural and urban areas and points to the key roles played by rural-based populations and producers, particularly smallholders, in promoting inclusive, mutually beneficial and sustainable urbanization.
Research Series Issue 4 - The effects of smallholder agricultural involvement on household food consumption and dietary diversity: Evidence from Malawi
Research Series Issue 3 - Fostering inclusive outcomes in African agriculture: improving agricultural productivity and expanding agribusiness opportunities
Research Series Issue 2 - Migration and Transformative Pathways
Insights from Participatory Impact Evaluations in Ghana and Vietnam
This paper by Adinda Van Hemelrijck and Irene Guijt explores how impact evaluation can live up to standards broader than statistical rigour in ways that address challenges of complexity and enable stakeholders to engage meaningfully. A Participatory Impact Assessment and Learning.
Approach (PIALA) was piloted to assess and debate the impacts on rural poverty of two government programmes in Vietnam and Ghana funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Methodological Reflections following the second PIALA Pilot in Ghana
IFAD has to report to its Members States on the total number of rural people lifted out of poverty1. The government programmes it funds, however, are implemented in complex ways and environments that challenge mainstream evaluation practice. The challenge for IFAD and its co- implementing and co-funding partners, moreover, is not just to rigorously assess impact but also to understand the processes generating impact in order to realize its ambitious targets (IFAD, 2011). Albeit a strong emphasis on quantitative measurement, there is a need for impact evaluation that fosters learning and responsibility.
Research Series Issue 1 - Agricultural and rural development reconsidered
Changing lives through IFAD water investments: a gender perspective
Executive summary, final report on the participatory impact evaluation of the Root & Tuber Improvement & Marketing Programme in Ghana
Strengthening Country-Level Agricultural Advisory Services in the target countries of Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Uganda
Enabling rural transformation and grassroots institutional building for sustainable land management and increased incomes and food security
Development of innovative site-specific integrated animal health packages
Livestock contribute to the livelihoods of roughly 70 per cent of the world’s poor, supporting farmers, consumers, traders and laborers throughout the developing world. The increasing demand for livestock products for the growing populations of developing countries, particularly in Africa, offers new market opportunities for poor farmers in rural areas.
Success in raising small-farmer productivity leads to improvements in household food security, nutrition and income, leading to poverty reduction. However, in vast areas of sub-Saharan Africa, increased and sustained animal production by small farmers is greatly hampered by livestock diseases. Animal diseases severely constrain livestock enterprises of smallholder livestock keepers in sub-Saharan Africa but are not given the attention they deserve by the global community
Zipping up the Evidence - Dealing with non-counterfactuals in Viet Nam and Ghana
Participatory Impact Assessment and Learning Approach (PIALA)
An Innovative, Scalable, Pro-poor Home Cooking-based Charcoal Production Value Chain For Women
Smart ICT for Weather and Water Information and Advice to Smallholders in Africa
Enabling Land Management, Resilient Pastoral Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction in Africa
The World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP) is a global knowledge and advocacy network that promotes understanding of sustainable pastoral development for both poverty reduction and sustainable environmental management. WISP was executed by the International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN).
The Programme built the capacity of pastoral institutions to engage in advocacy based on state-of-the-art global learning on sustainable pastoralism, enabling pastoralist institutions around the world to network and shared experiences and opportunities, and ensured that the voice of pastoralists remained central to policy discourse and learning.
Performance des petits projets de l’IPAF 2015
Insights and lessons learned from the reflections on the PIALA piloting in Vietnam
Participatory Impact Assessment and Learning Approach (PIALA) - Results and reflections from the impact evaluation of RTIMP in Viet Nam
New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture
Performance of IPAF small projects: Desk review 2011
In June 2006, the World Bank and IFAD agreed to transfer the World Bank’s Grants Facility for Indigenous Peoples to IFAD. In September, the transfer was approved by IFAD’s Executive Board. This marked the beginning of the IFAD Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility (IPAF), which issues public calls for proposals and makes small grants to support indigenous and tribal peoples throughout the world. Development projects financed through IPAF aim to improve indigenous peoples’ access to key decision-making processes, empower indigenous peoples to find solutions to the challenges they face, and respond to indigenous peoples’ holistic perspectives. The projects build on indigenous culture, identity, knowledge, natural resources, intellectual property and human rights.
This report, prepared by an independent consultant, provides an overview of the performance of 53 small IPAF-funded projects in delivering results and improving the lives of their target groups. About 45,000 people directly benefited from these projects, and more than half of them were women. Project services reached about 1,200 communities. Primary project activities were training and individual capacity-building in such topics as security of tenure, natural resource management, agricultural technologies, traditional medicine, indigenous peoples’ rights, community programming, literacy and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Rapport sur la pauvreté rurale 2011
“Le problème aujourd’hui, c’est que vous avez beau travailler dur, ce n’est jamais assez pour nourrir la famille…” “Ça fait un an, ou peut-être davantage, qu’il n’a pas plu. C’est pour ça que les gens souffrent…” “Sans éducation, on ne peut rien faire…” “Les hommes sont partis pour travailler loin du village. Il ne reste quasiment que des femmes ici pour travailler…” Voici quelques réflexions personnelles de la poignée d’hommes, de femmes et de jeunes interrogés pour ce rapport. Leurs récits nous donnent un aperçu capital de ce que signifie vivre dans la réalité mouvante de la pauvreté rurale d’aujourd’hui. Il est essentiel de les écouter raconter leur vécu – et d’en tirer des enseignements – pour comprendre cette réalité.
C’est d’ailleurs la première chose à faire si l’on veut concevoir des solutions pertinentes et efficaces permettant de transformer les zones rurales, actuellement en plein marasme, en lieux où les jeunes d’aujourd’hui peuvent espérer trouver du travail pour sortir de la pauvreté et où ils désireront vivre et élever leurs enfants. Il nous faut une bonne perception de ce à quoi ressemble la pauvreté maintenant, un assortiment de solutions pratiques pour résoudre la myriade de défis qui se posent aujourd’hui et une approche cohérente permettant de s’attaquer aux défis évolutifs du futur. Le rapport aborde ces trois volets.