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Towards achieving Zero Hunger: fostering countries' leadership for stronger...
By Gabriele MarcheseIFAD booth at the Expo. ©UNOSSC As the global hunger is on the rise again after declining for over a decade, can South-South and Triangular Cooperation provide the Rome-based...
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Policy development and field implementation: a two-way street
As the GEF's Gender Policy is approved by the GEF Council, the IFAD/GEF co-financed project Poverty Reduction Project in Aftout South and Karakoro – Phase II (PASK II) in Mauritania wins the 2017 IFAD...
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IFAD Gender Awards 2017 Commemorate Innovation and Celebrate Female Empowerment
By Kalin SchultzIFAD’s Director of Communications, Cassandra Waldon opened the 2017 IFAD Gender Awards with a strong statement: “It is clear that if we do not empower women, we will not eradicate...
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The Smallholder and Agri-food SME Finance and Investment Network shares...
Almost a year ago, at the end of its flagship conference on Investing in inclusive rural transformation: Innovative approaches to financing, IFAD took on the challenge of leading the development of a...
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Asia-Pacific farmers’ organizations and partners gather in India for the...
Asia-Pacific farmers’ organizations Irish Domingo and Benoit ThierryOctober 2017Representatives from farmer organizations in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia and the Pacific, international...
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Stratégies d’adaptation aux changements climatiques pour améliorer la...
By Alice Brie, WCAThis blog looks at IFAD’s work in promoting south-south knowledge exchanges on climate change adaptation through its partnership with PROCASUR. Niger is one of the most vulnerable...
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Gender Transformation
By Ida Christensen, FAOAgenda 2030 requires us to do more, do things differently and to move fast! Importantly, we need to work closer together with our partners to find, test and upscale relevant...
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Young people say YES! to a sustainable food system
By Rahul Antao and Francesca Romana Borgia The Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) has for long embodied an ambition to bring together young people, from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, to...
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Is the ideal woman resilient to climate change?
by Maelle PeltierLearning about the role of women and men through South-South exchange.Who is the ideal woman? Does the ideal man actually exist? These questions pursued the participants of the recent...
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What do Benin, Cape Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania and...
by Maelle PeltierWhen it comes to resilience and sustainable agriculture as supported by the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) of the International Fund for Agricultural...
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Multi-functional landscapes: What is the right approach?
By Oliver MundyEric Patrick, adaptation specialist at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), presented a new innovative pilot programme in a TED-like 'Landscape Talk' at the Global...
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IFAD in Sudan: putting inclusive rural transformation into practice
by Mia Madsen (NEN) and Anja Rabezanahary (PTA)It was a unique experience. A total of 35 male and female staff members from four IFAD-financed projects in Sudan spent 10 days together in Wad Madani,...
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Training in Swaziland: The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT)
By Tiffany MinjauwThe Smallholder Market-led Project (SMLP) in the Kingdom of Swaziland is a six-year project whose development objective is to enhance food and nutrition security and incomes among...
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Energizing and watering Agribusiness
by Amathe Pathe Sene, IFAD's Regional Climate and Environment Specialist for West and Central Africa speaking at the 4th German-African Agribusiness Forum in BerlinIrrigation in Africa has the...
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Bringing renewable energy to the centre of IFAD operations
By Karan SehgalOn 23 January 2018, IFAD held an in-house seminar that took up the issue of renewable energy and how it is addressed throughout the Fund’s development portfolio. The panel was chaired by...
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EO4SD Agriculture and Rural Development Cluster
A 5-day workshop on the EO4SD Agriculture and Rural Development Cluster was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 5 to 9 February. The workshop was organized under the European Space Agency (ESA)...
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Meeting the students from the IFAD-Universities win-win partnership
Staff from the IFAD Country Office for Ethiopia welcomed three students from the TERI University in Delhi before their departure to the field. This was an excellent opportunity for IFAD staff to meet...
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Cutting a profit at high altitude: IFAD support for Morocco’s Plan Vert
Republished from www.arabspatial.orgBy Margarita Astralaga, Director of the Climate and Environment Division, IFADThe mountainous areas of Morocco’s Central Atlas range offer ideal conditions for the...
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Come rain or shine, the farmer thrives
By Enika Bushi The Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) is all about giving farmers the information and confidence to make informed decisions. It invites farmers to 'sit at...
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Empower a woman and witness the real change!
By Magali Marguet and Ritik Joshi"We are happy now because we have a sustainable income source in the form of our home gardens and now we can afford to send out children to school" are some words from...
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