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Maharashtra women in remote areas work as micro ATMs in the times of COVID
India is in a nationwide lockdown, as a preventive measure to check the spread of COVID-19. Various projects in the country are responding to the situation in different ways to ease the lives of the...
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Juventud rural, innovación y tradición: el desafío de un nuevo orden
Este año 2020 no tiene precedentes. Desde que nuestra vida está dominada en todo el mundo por la pandemia de COVID-19, hemos escuchado una y otra vez hablar la importancia de crear un nuevo orden...
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IFAD/CGIAR note shares insights on how to prevent land use conflicts in...
Conflicts are relatively common in pastoral and agropastoral areas, and how they are perceived and handled has a strong influence on their outcomes. Many underlying conflicts are latent – unseen to an...
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Enhancing IFAD & ILC Strategic Partnership
The International Land Coalition (ILC) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have recently adopted a three-year roadmap to inform their collaboration and jointly contribute to...
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Land Reform and Tenure Security in South Africa: The insecurity of...
Authors: Ivonald Da Cruz, Christopher Tapscott and Philipp Baumgartner As noted by the eminent land reform scholar, Professor Michael Lipton, “The path of land reform seldom runs smooth” and South...
View ArticleASEAN responds to potential transboundary haze events in wake of pandemic
JAKARTA, 4 August 2020 - The ASEAN Secretariat held a webinar to increase concerted effort and preparedness in preventing haze events, predicted to peak in August – September.The webinar was supported...
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The importance of biodiversity, an agroecological perspective by Marco...
Marco Minciaroni is an Italian farmer based in Umbria and a champion for organic farming methods. His farm is a great example of how sustainable agriculture can work when implemented in the right way,...
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Farmers are true COVID-19 heroes and we must support the people who produce...
“If you have any idea about farming then you probably know that crops need to be planted at a certain time of the year. But this March, Zimbabwe went into a national lockdown, and the window for...
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Digital solutions for rural development can help overcome the impact of...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people with severe food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean could rise from 3.4 million to around 14 million by the end of 2020, according to the...
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IFAD’s support to create opportunities out of COVID-19 crisis: Turmeric...
While the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated livelihoods across the world, there have also been pockets of hope, where policy, institutional support and individual grit have come together to find new...
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Imen, la chamelière de Benguerdane
Benguerdane, commune située à l’extrême Sud-Est tunisien et à quelques kilomètres de la frontière Tuniso-Libyenne, est dominée par un climat extrêmement aride et hostile et où la principale source de...
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El Salvador: Indígenas Náhuat-pipil aumentan resiliencia frente al cambio...
Las comunidades de Tajcüilüjlan, Pushtan y Sisimitepep, en el departamento de Sonsonate, al oeste de El Salvador, son importantes asentamientos del pueblo náhuat-pipil, el principal grupo indígena del...
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Going organic by listening to the land
Take a philosophy student, a few hundred hectares in Umbria and throw in some passion for the environment. This is the story of Marco Minciaroni, a man who doesn’t take the easy road when it comes to...
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3ème Atelier Régional du Hub Afrique de l'Ouest
(English below)L'atelier régional 2020 du bureau Afrique de l’ouest du FIDA bat son plein. Les trois premiers jours que nous avons passés ensemble ont été riches en échanges d’expériences, en idées et...
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Five ways to build robust and resilient agriculture value chains: Lessons...
By Tarek Kotb, Country Director, Sri Lanka and Nepal, IFAD Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to food shortage and the loss of market opportunities and jobs. Rural communities have...
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Political will, adequate targeting and innovative gender approaches needed to...
By Isabel de la PeñaPolitical will, adequate targeting and innovative gender approaches are needed to avoid hunger and food insecurity's further increase in Latin America and the Caribbean. This...
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Towards a New Rural Nepal: A new country strategy, with donors and...
By Tarek Kotb, Country Director, Nepal and Sri Lanka, IFAD This year we embarked on the process of designing a new country strategy for IFAD’s engagement in Nepal, as the current strategy – called...
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IFAD and FAO have teamed up to combine geo-referencing technology and...
By Giulia Barbanente and Jimmy GaudinIFAD and FAO have brought together their shared experiences in the GeoTech4Tenure programme, to support IFAD Country Teams and IFAD supported projects to strengthen...
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DAKI Semiárido Vivo, bringing knowledge to semi-arid areas of the world
Semi-arid areas are found all over the world and cover up to 18% of the earth's surface1. These areas are hit hard by drought and climate change, and are home to family farmers, pastoralists,...
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Strengthening smallholder and family farmers’ organizations in the Caribbean:...
“Farmers’ organizations play a crucial role in the eradication of poverty and hunger in the three regions” introduced Escipión Oliveira Gómez, Assistant Secretary General for the Department of...
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Using remote sensing for the NDC update
Kyrgyzstan signed the Paris Agreement in 2019, thereby joining the global community in the fight against climate change. The main tool of the Paris Agreement is the so-called nationally determined...
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One World, One Health: a landscape approach for preventing and mitigating...
It was “perhaps the most important session of the conference,” said John Colmey, managing director of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF).Hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI),...
View ArticleGuatemala among the first countries to establish a national dialogue on the...
On 25 February, the Government of Guatemala and Guatemala’s UN Country Team jointly launched a national dialogue process on the UN Food Systems Summit that will take place in New York this September....
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IFAD’s award for rural youth initiatives in LAC launches second edition
Last year, despite the start of the pandemic, the Rural Youth Innovation Award generated an enthusiastic response throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Almost 600 youth initiatives across 18 of...
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Maryam transforming into a businesswoman
By Sooyeon Kim, UNV-Environment and Social Inclusion Specialist, ECG/NEN, IFAD The Sustainable Agriculture Investments and Livelihoods (SAIL) Programme in Egypt supports empowering women's leadership...
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