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Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions
Armed conflict, extreme climate events and economic crises remain the key drivers behind acute hunger and malnutrition according to the latest edition the Global Report on Food Crises. The 2019...
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How Indian women have transformed rural communities
By Chloe Benson©IFAD/Susan BeccioIn a recent Global Policy Engagement Forum on India's Rural Transformation, India's Secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development, Amarjeet Sinha, described women as...
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How improved nutrition can save the world
Every year, 12 million girls marry prematurely and 16 million adolescents become mothers. These young women are subject to widespread discrimination and malnutrition, with rural and indigenous women...
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Parmigiano Reggiano and Italian Cooperatives - IFAD Upscaling to Africa and...
by Adriane Del TortoCorte d'Aibo, Monteveglio (BO)The partnership between IFAD and the Government of Italy is long standing. As part of this collaboration, the Italian Cooperative Model has been...
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“Nothing about us without us”: hundreds of youth voices heard at the UN
By Flora SonkinStanding ovation for a powerful keynote by Yolanda Joab, youth activist from Micronesia Over 800 young leaders from around the world gathered at the UN Headquarters last week to demand...
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Using geospatial data to analyse and prioritize investments for agricultural...
Geospatial data can support IFAD projects in analysing agricultural value chains and prioritizing investments. An important contribution is to monitor existing project interventions but also designing...
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Key partnership for innovation in the Andes
On Monday, 3 June 2019, IFAD hosted the event Innovating for food security and resiliency in the Andes. This ceremony took place in the Atton Hotel in Lima, Peru and it was co-organized with the...
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Professional Equality: How to foster women’s access to economic opportunities?
On 24 May 2019, to mark 100 years since the establishment of the International Labour Organization (ILO), a high-level conference was convened in Paris in association with the Agence Française de...
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Reflections on Seeds and Chips
IFAD enjoyed a prominent presence at the fifth edition of the Seeds and Chips Global Summit. The four day extravaganza saw an array of world renowned guests, investors, policy makers and hundreds of...
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Improving rural youth’s access, use and management of land, water and other...
By PROCASUR International Youth Agropastoral Entrepreneurship Summit 2019 © Benjamin OmbeThe Youth Agro-pastoral Entrepreneurship Summit – promoted and organized by the Cameroon Youth Agro-Pastoral...
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Tax exemption for irrigation technologies and equipment in Ethiopia
Farmers connect a small water pump in Kossoye, Ethiopia. ©IFAD/Petterik Wiggers One of the main impediments to growth of the irrigation sub-sector in Ethiopia has been the insufficient supply of...
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Strengthening IFAD & ILC collaboration on Land Tenure
By Jimmy Gaudin, Yonas Mekonen, Annalisa Mauro, Giulia Barbanente and Harold Liversage.During the past years, the collaboration between international organizations, NGOs, civil society and governments...
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Land tenure interventions in the Pro-Poor Value Chain Development Project in...
The Pro-Poor Value Chain Development Project (PROSUL)The Pro-Poor Value Chain Development Project in the Maputo and Limpopo Corridors (PROSUL) is a Government Project funded by IFAD. The Project’s...
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Opportunities for integrated and inclusive governance of water, fisheries and...
By Cynthia Adzika, Giulia Barbanente and Audrey NepveuChallenges in the governance of land water and fisheries Conflicts over access to scarce land, water and fisheries resources contribute to the...
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Celebrating the issuing of the first-ever certificate of customary rights of...
Mkami Amos and Fiona Flintan, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)Women from the villages making up OLENGAPA celebrating the issuing of the CCROsOn 30 April 2019, 22 representatives (16...
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Building roads to innovation around the globe
By Michael Hamp, IFADThe creative partnerships and innovative solutions showcased at the 2nd Mekong Knowledge and Learning Fair (MKLF) held in Bangkok last week (10-12 July 2019) have sparked interest...
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Climate change - one of greatest challenges to eliminating hunger
Latest estimates suggest that the world's food security situation is continuing to gradually worsen. In 2018, 821.6 million people were undernourished globally. While this represents a notable...
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Renewable energy - Reflections from EXCO 2019 and the TEM on Mitigation at Bonn
Renewable energy has enjoyed heightened visibility of late at IFAD, culminating in an upsurge in investment in the area and the inclusion of a target in the 2019-2025 Strategy and Action Plan on...
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Understanding the dynamics of vulnerability and the adaptive capacity of...
Photo credit: Daniel McGahey.On 30 July, IFAD staff at HQ and further afield were treated to a thought-provoking presentation and follow-up interaction with Lucia Scodanibbio, former ASSAR project...
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COP14 Day 1 – Setting the tone to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality targets
By Marie-Aude Even and Esha SinghOn day 1, IFAD co-financed a very engaging side event where scientists from ICRAF, ICRISAT and partners from IFAD, UNCCD, India IUCN discussed several approaches to...
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