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What does integration of Knowledge Management and Learning (KM&L) in projects...
With support from IFADAfrica and PICO Team, Uganda has had an opportunity to hold an in-country knowledge management and learning workshop. The three day workshop (3 – 5 February 2014) is going on...
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Zimbabwean communities set the Diversity Wheel in motion
by Rima Alcadi and Shantanu Mathur picture: R.Alcadi/IFAD. FFS in Goromonzi, ZimbabweWe are all increasingly dependent on agro-biodiversity, as we struggle to adapt to the impending impacts of climate...
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A renewed focus on nutrition
By Kanayo F. Nwanze IFAD is a United Nations specialized agency and an international financial institution committed to providing investments that create a route out of poverty for rural people in the...
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From the crop to the cup: The good fortune of some green beans
by Daniela CuneoCoffee is one of the most widely-consumed drinks around the world: Millions of people (and yes, I am one of those!) just can’ t think of starting their day without a good cup of...
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Fishing for our future #post2015 #ifadgc #fafo2014
by Kanayo F. NwanzeIt is a cliché of development discourse that it is better to teach people to fish than to give them fish to eat. While there is a core of truth in this statement, the issues have...
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Project design with local talents: a promising story from Malawi
Preface by Federica Franco 2014 started off well with a successful experiment: an IFAD project being designed together with talented local young professionals. In an unprecedented initiative, four...
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#FAFO 2014 – Farmers’ Forum at IFAD eyes rural development from the grassroots
Farmers' Forum participants fill the Italian Conference Room at IFAD headquarters. ©IFADROME, Italy – For the past two days, the largest meeting room at the headquarters of the International Fund for...
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Painting what the rural lives will look like in post 2015 #post2015 #ifadgc
By Maria Elena MangiaficoDuring the rich discussions at the pre-GC event “Achieving a sustainable future for all: Rural transformation and the post-2015 agenda”, like most people who followed, I was...
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#IFADgc – Grounds for optimism: Governing Council spotlights benefits of...
ROME, Italy – Ugandan entrepreneur Andrew Rugasira told a story yesterday that spoke volumes about the importance of investing in rural people as a solution to endemic poverty and hunger. “It’s not...
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Embracing challenges as opportunities for transformation
By Rima AlcadiThe panel discussion on "Stories from the field : Investment in the transformation of rural people’s lives" involved 4 of our Country Programme Managers/Country Directors: Cristiana...
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With Big Business 4 Smallholder Farmers, Smallholder farmers x (IFAD +...
by Rima Alcadi Paul Polman and Nisha Pillai (photo by B. Gravelli)Paul Polman, is Unilever’s Chief Executive Officer. Since taking office in 2009, he has set out an ambitious vision: by 2020, Unilever...
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Une collaboration efficace entre la Recherche et les projets du FIDA au...
Je reviens du Burkina Faso où j’ai participé à l’atelier de clôture du Projet «Les arbres des parcs agroforestiers et les moyens de subsistance: adaptation aux changements climatiques dans le Sahel...
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Telling the stories of rural women through SDG indicators #post2015
Clare Bishop-Sambrook, Senior Technical Advisor, Policy and Technical Advisory Division, IFADInformal viewpoint following participation in a side event on rural women during OWG8 meetingDuring the...
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Climate games: how beans means adaptation
The ingredients for a climate game: a few dice, some red stones and a handful of beans. With these simple tools, the Netherlands Red Cross team gave a great simulation yesterday of the choices...
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Unraveling land indicators
by Harold Liversage, the regional land advisor and Steven Jonckheere, land and natural resources associate for IFAD in East and Southern AfricaLand is fundamental to the lives of poor rural people. It...
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The oxygen of frank debate: the 2014 portfolio under discussion
Like everyone, I went to some great sessions at the Global Staff Meeting. I met new people and heard new ideas. I also learned that IFAD is pretty good at discussing its difficulties. One of the...
View ArticleSeeds for needs: Strengthening biodiversity on small farms
At a seminar with researchers from Bioversity International and IFAD staff on Monday, it was clear that supporting biodiversity in crop systems is an issue that resonates with IFAD’s work. Indeed,...
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Seed Security = Food Security
by Rima Alcadi Picture by Shepherd Tozvireva / Oxfam NovibIn Zimbabwe, the IFAD-funded Oxfam Novib programme called “Scaling Up Peoples' Biodiversity Management for Food Security” is working in the low...
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Scaling up IFAD’s support for land tenure security #ifadgsm
By Harold Liversage, regional land advisor, and Steven Jonckheere, land and natural resources associate for IFAD in East and Southern Africa.During the 2014 Global Staff Meeting, IFAD and the...
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IFAD Procurement Training, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Project staff spend a great deal of their efforts to deliver procured inputs and technologies on time, racing against approaching weather season. It is not an easy task, as they have to navigate...
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