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Sustainable livelihoods ten years after the tsunami: a photo blogpost from...
By Susan Beccio A coastline household in Kurumpanai village, Tamil Nadu, India. This village was hit hard by the tsunami in 2004. ©IFAD/Susan BeccioThis week I visited some of the coastal areas of...
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Monitoring Increasing Salinity of the Mekong Delta
By Jessica Morgan IFAD has initiated a programme to develop a monitoring and early warning system to combat the increasing salinity levels of the Mekong Delta.At the mouth of the Mekong, salty seawater...
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El Presidente del FIDA, Kanayo Nwanze viajó a la República de Nicaragua: “El...
by Gretchen RobletoEl Presidente del FIDA explica la importancia de un almacenamiento y elaboración adecuados para aumentar el valor de mercado de la producción en Nicaragua. Kanayo F. Nwanze,...
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Growing more food and using less water while preserving the natural...
Written by the Gansu PPMO teamPlastic mulching is an agricultural technology used to retain soil moisture, reduce weeds and raise soil temperatures. Plastic is stretched over raised vegetable beds and...
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The future is farming! Integrating rural youth in agriculture
By Vivienne LikhangaAfter eight exciting days in field, the Learning Route: Innovative ideas and approaches to integrate Rural Youth in Agriculture the progress in Kenya came to a close on the 18th of...
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Celebrating International Day of Rural Women
by John McIntire, Associate Vice-President, Programme Management DepartmentA farmer weighing turnips in El-Ferech, Tunisia©IFAD/ Susan Beccio In recognition of the International Year of Family Farming...
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Women are leaders in family farming
Written by IFAD gender teamThe United Nations declaration of 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) has done much to publicize the role of small family farmers in global food supply....
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Building strong partnerships for nutrition and agricultural development
by Kanayo F NwanzeEvery night, 842 million women, children and men go to bed hungry. Every day 8,000 children die needlessly from conditions linked to under-nutrition. Globally, 2 billion people suffer...
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Innovative Investments in Agriculture and Food Security – CFS Side Event
Innovation in the agricultural sector was the topic of a side event held last Wednesday during the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 41) at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) building in...
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Farmers of Asia and Pacific are meeting in Vietnam (18-23 October)
This week end the annual regional steering committee of the Farmers Organisations MTCP2 program is starting in Hanoi, bringing together 50 participants from 15 countries of Asia Pacific Region...
View ArticleIllegal logging in Peru
Written by Jess MorganDeaths of Campaigners brings illegal logging to lightA quadruple homicide in Peru’s Amazon Ucayali region has brought to light illegal logging activities and speculation regarding...
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MTCP2 Day2- Asia and Pacific Farmers Organisations strenghten their actions
In Hanoi, the steering committee of MTCP2, in support to farmers organisations of Asia and Pacific region, will triple the 2015 annual workplan and budget based on the good results of the Project Year1...
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Where research meets development: A conversation on challenges and...
Audrey Nepveu and Alain VidalIn May 2012, IFAD awarded the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) a two-year grant to contribute to improving the food security and livelihoods of poor rural...
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A step toward biodiversity conservation in a SIDS: Ecological and...
By: Elisa DistefanoPhoto 1: Programme areasA recently completed GEF project, “Integrated Ecological Planning and Sustainable Land Management in Coastal Ecosystems in the Comoros” supported long-term...
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Indigenous plant products industry in Africa – the experience of PhytoTrade...
©PhytoTradeWritten by Harold Liversage, Senior Technical Specialist: Land Tenure, IFAD, and Francesca Carpano, Land Tenure Consultant, Policy and Technical Advisory Division, IFADOn 13th October 2014...
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The marvels of investing in agriculture and believing in the power and...
The best part of my job is when I get to visit the countries and the people who we work with and serve. This time round, I was fortunate enough to visit my first upper-middle-income country:...
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Mapping the future for smallholder farmers
Written by Jessica MorganSmall farmers are often at the forefront of climate change impacts, since their means of production are provided largely by nature, such as healthy soils, adequate rainfall and...
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The time poverty trap: Rural women’s poverty of time is one of the biggest...
Written by: Clare Bishop-Sambrook, Lead Technical Specialist, Gender and Social Inclusion, Policy and Technical Advisory Division, IFAD, RomeLabour-saving devices have been available for decades – so...
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MTCP2 Hanoi-Day 3 closing : Asia Pacific farmer organizations celebrate gains...
Farmer organizations implementing the Medium Term Cooperation Program Phase Two (MTCP2) in Asia and the Pacific gather at the Saigon Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 20-22 to celebrate gains in the...
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Nairobi Sharefair calls for enhanced access to technologies that are...
UN Agencies – IFAD, FAO and WFP, led by the UN Women and with the support of the African Union (AU), last week (October 15 – 17, 2014) co-hosted a Sharefair for Rural Women’s Technologies in Nairobi,...
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