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How to address the challenges faced by rural youth aged 15-17 in Mali?
By Philippe Remy and Elena Pietschmann, WCABy supporting vocational training and microenterprise development, the Rural Youth Vocational Training Employment and Entrepreneurship Support Project (FIER)...
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IFAD’s Rural Development Report offers governments targeted policies to...
By Michele PentorieriThe Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni welcomes IFAD's President Kanayo F. Nwanze for the launched of the Rural Development Report...
View ArticleInsights from the learning event “Economic empowerment for rural women and...
Tangible impacts: labour-saving technologies freed up women’s time “And then, we requested to purchase six washing machines. This was fundamental for us and the other members of my group to free up...
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IFAD’s Executive Board stands together to support gender mainstreaming in IFAD
By Clare Bishop-Sambrook, Lead Technical Adviser (Gender and Social Inclusion)At IFAD’s 118th Executive Board, all three country groups presented a joint statement in support of the midterm review of...
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Written by Mwatima Juma, Tanzania Country Programme Officer – IFAD, for GEMRA group of 20 farmers gather around a facilitator who is demonstrating how to prepare nutritious fodder for dairy cows on...
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Stepping up the gender agenda in IFAD10
By Clare Bishop-Sambrook, Lead Technical Adviser (Gender and social inclusion) and Johanna Pennarz, Lead Evaluation OfficerIFAD’s gender team has been the first to respond to a challenge issued by the...
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From 2012 till now
How the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure can be used as a global tool for engagementBy Harold Liversage, Lead Land Tenure Technical Specialist, and Elisabeth Steinmayr, Rural...
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Terra Madre 2016: How food systems can inspire positive solutions for...
by Paulina Schwaner & Rahul AntaoTerra Madre delegates at the opening ceremony paradeIFAD brings 40 delegates from IFAD-supported projects and networks across Africa, Asia and Latin America to...
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Linking rural and the urban: LANDac Conference 2016
By Elisa Mandelli, Associate Professional Officer, IFAD, and Andrea Wyers, Intern, IFAD Harold Liversage (IFAD) sharing with the audience his considerations on the outputs of the conference...
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Labour-saving technologies: freeing up women’s time and improving family...
By Jeanette Cooke, Rural Development Consultant, Gender Team The International Day of Rural Women on 15 October is an opportunity to recognize the critical role rural women can play in eradicating...
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Knowledge Management for Enhanced Project Performance: Training Workshop in...
By Vivienne LikhangaInformation can be a source of change. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision-making, information is a burden, not a...
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More than just a recipe
I have just returned from Mozambique where I was lucky enough to see the latest in IFAD's cooking and climate series, Recipes for Change, being filmed. The newest recipe, Caldeirada De Cabrito Com...
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Supporting regional trade integration between Niger and Nigeria
Regional integration is a development priority for Africa. All Africans, not just policy makers and decision makers, have a role to play in making integration a reality for the continent. Regional...
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The story of the founder of Shakti Organic Factory
A guest blog by: Esther Penunia, Secretary General, Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development Edited by: Linh LeMeet Nirmala Shrestha, a Nepali teacher, a daughter of a farming...
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Women in action and actions for women
by Francesca AloisioIf women want to change their status they need to be the agents of that change. And social change is the goal of the Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic...
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Written by IFAD's South-South and Triangular Cooperation teamAn IFAD delegation traveled to China in September 2016 to participate in a series of events around the relationship between China and Africa...
View ArticleSouth-South and Triangular Cooperation as a key priority for Indonesia
Written by IFAD's South-South and Triangular Cooperation teamSouth-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) is a key priority area for the Government of Indonesia as a tool for learning from others and...
View ArticleEnhancing adaptation capabilities of small-scale farmers to climate change
At the Forty-third session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 43), participants met for an event where “Making a Difference in Food Security and Nutrition” was the subject of discussion.The...
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IFAD develops its first country programme in Iraq
Written by: Mia MadsenParticipants at IFAD-Iraq high-level meeting in Amman, Jordan. ©IFAD/M. MadsenThe International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is developing its first country programme...
View ArticleBuilding bridges between climate change adaptation practitioners
By Marie Chanoine, Ilaria Firmian and Brian ThomsonLast week in Kigali IFAD organised the first South-South exchange among five projects that receive co-financing from the Adaptation for Smallholder...
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