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Leaving no one behind in West and Central Africa
By Steven Jonckheere, Knowledge Management Officer for IFAD in West and Central Africa.IFAD works in some of the most remote and environmentally fragile locations, and often with particularly...
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Raising nutrition awareness in Ethiopia
by Marian Amaka OdenigboPASIDP project beneficiaries happily display one of the newly introduced vegetablesDuring the week of 21-31 May 2014, I took part in an implementation support mission in...
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Discussing food security in the Umbrian hills: The Untold Story of Food Politics
Last month, the city of Perugia in Italy hosted the International Journalism Festival. This journalism festival is considered to be one of the most important "media events" on the European scene. The...
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Healing degraded land
By Debra KhumaloMuch of Swaziland’s countryside is being destroyed by land degradation largely as a result of soil erosion. Beautiful landscapes are now scarred with deep lesions mostly as a result of...
View Article#ifadclimate celebrating #WED at Rome HQ - World Environment Day: Celebrating...
By Tiffany MinjauwThis year, World Environment Day (WED) , celebrated on the 5th of June, will highlight the issue of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the context of climate change. Alongside...
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The integration of family farming and agricultural development
By Ides de Willebois, Director & Steven Jonckheere, Knowledge Management Officer for IFAD in West and Central Africa.Developing an agricultural sector that is inclusive of small farmersThe demand...
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Social fencing: a community barrier to overgrazing and degradation in Africa
By Stephen TwomlowIn Ethiopia, overgrazing and the resulting land degradation has been one of the major challenges to rural development of the last 50 years. Livestock numbers are ever-increasing...
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Mechanization of conservation agriculture slashes farming costs
Jabu MatsebulaFigure 1-©IFAD -Lindiwe planting in the rows made by the ripperFARMERS can increase yields, efficiency and drastically reduce the cost of ploughing, planting and weeding in the 2014...
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IFAD, FAO & WFP in DRC awarded for joint work on food insecurity
The collective efforts of the three UN food and agriculture agencies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been recognised in the 2014 Award of Excellence by the United Nations Food and...
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The Ubiquitous Eucalyptus
By Steve Twomlow and Will CritchleyIn many developing countries , including Ethiopia, Eucalyptus spp, was first introduced as a fast growing cash crop, sold to meet growing construction and energy...
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Learning for improved performance in IFAD projects in Ethiopia
Dr Robson Mutandi opens the workshopThe IFAD Ethiopia Country Office hosted a knowledge management and learning (KM&L) workshop on 10th -12th June 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was an...
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Don’t just promise development, Deliver it! IFAD President (@knwanze) open...
Kanayo F. Nwanze (@knwanze) open letter to African Union heads of stateJudging from the daily outpouring of commentary, opinions and reports, you would think that there were two African continents. One...
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Rwanda- Using Climate games to understand the reality of how climate change...
By Margot Steenbergen & Gernot Laganda“I could better understand the reality of how climate change is affecting the ‘on the ground reality of small scale farmers’, in a safe environment, without my...
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Finding the right mix of climate-smart solutions in East Africa
June 12, 2014by Melissa Reichwage@IFAD/Siegfried ModolaFarming systems that integrate crops with livestock carry much of the weight of the world’s food systems. These “mixed” farming systems produce...
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Investing in Africa’s women farmers
Across sub-Saharan Africa agriculture is the backbone of the economy, accounting for 30-40% of nations’gross domestic product, and a leading source of jobs for over two-thirds of the population....
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Cheat sheet for IFAD's 2013 Annual Report
By popular request, I've put together a cheat sheet for the 2013 IFAD Annual Report, which came out yesterday. Like all good cheat sheets, this one saves you time and effort, giving key figures from...
View ArticleThe power of seaweed
When the Finnish botanist Peter Forsskal made the first collection of Red Sea seaweeds during an expedition to South Arabia in 1763, he likely had no idea of their rich vitamin and mineral content. In...
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Pastoral Community Development Project in Ethiopia launches its third phase
On 17th June 2014 over 600 project staff, senior officials from the Federal and regional Government, Donors and other stakeholders congregated in Debrezeit, Ethiopia to launch the third phase of the...
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Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Entry into Force of the International...
29 June 2014 marked the 10-year Anniversary of the entry-into-force of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). To celebrate the event, the Secretariat of...
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Setting SAIL in Egypt for sustainable agricultural investments and with...
by Abdelhaq HanafiSome 33 million people are estimated to be poor in Egypt, more than half of whom reside in rural areas whose main source of income and employment is derived from agriculture. A key...
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