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Walking the Talk in the Fight against Climate Change
By Christopher NegliaAt a standing room only event held on Wednesday morning at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS44), speakers and audience members were asked how their respective organizations...
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Sharing expertise on rural women and girls in preparation for the Commission...
Written by Maria Hartl, Senior Technical Specialist, Gender and Social EquityIn September,IFAD hosted an Expert Group Meeting convened by UN-Women to discuss “Challenges and opportunities in achieving...
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Strengthening farmers organizations: the journey of participants from 6...
9thOctober 2017, Nairobi - KenyaProcasur Africa's Learning Route: Linking smallholders to commercialization Practices: The case of Farmers Organizations in the Kenyan dairy sectorbrought together 21...
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Workshop Breathes Life Into Botswana’s Agricultural Services Support Project...
Experiences from the IFAD-ESA Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop in SwazilandAuthor: Tirelo Ditshipi - (with contributions from Francesco Rubino)The Agricultural Services Support Project (ASSP) in...
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The Amhara Regional State irrigation scheme inauguration
By Samir Rayess CalvoH.E. Dr Kaba Urgessa (State Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources) and Ato Aytenew Endeishaw (Deputy Head of Bureau of Agriculture in Amhara Region), inaugurated the...
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IFAD - Universities win-win partnership grant opportunity: unlocking the...
by Francesca Romana BorgiaDocumenting good practices, gathering data, updating baselines, and analysing documents are great ways of deepening the knowledge and performance of IFAD operations, but often...
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IFAD and International organisations and agencies reaffirm the need to devote...
By Salvador SantiestebanOn 9 October 2017 IFAD met with other United Nations agencies and international financial organisations and institutions at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza,...
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El FIDA y organismos y agencias internacionales reafirmaron la necesidad de...
Por Salvador SantiestebanEl Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA), junto con otras agencias de las Naciones Unidas, organismos e instituciones financieras internacionales, debatieron el...
View ArticleFinancial Management Workshop for Global/Regional Grant Recipients, Bangkok
FMD has successfully concluded the Financial Management Workshop for global and regional grant recipients, held in Bangkok from 25 to 27 October 2017. The Workshop was attended by 34 invitees managing...
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Fostering nutrition mainstreaming through Rome-based Agency collaboration for...
Accelerating the progress of nutrition-sensitive investments at country levelBy Marian Amaka Odenigbo and Roberta Carino On occasion of the 44th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS),...
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Empowering women in Zanzibar through Farmer Field Schools
By Kalin SchultzWomen and men taking part in a wealth ranking excersise of a farmer field school in Mbuzini on at Pemba island in Zanzibar, Tanzania.Issues of gender equality and agricultural...
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Review of the IFAD-funded small grant on capacity building for implementation...
By Richard Abila and Laura SollazzoCrocevia: Snapshot of the infographic on the VGSSFThe event was held to reflect on the lessons and outcomes of the small grant, providing an opportunity for the Grant...
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Some outcomes of the Financial Graduation Programming Knowledge-sharing and...
by Jonathan Agwe Background: The Outreach Project - Expanding and scaling-up innovative financial inclusion and graduation strategies and tools in Africa has been successfully piloted. ‘The ‘Outreach...
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A farmer who punched poverty using Enset Spring
By ORDAThe Organization for Rehabilitation and Development in Amhara (ORDA), a strong and reliable developmental partner of the people and government of the Amhara region, is strategically filling...
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Global challenges for UN agencies in Rome
By Giulio Fabris Climate change, migration, conflicts, hunger. Global challenges cannot be tackled individually by states or organizations, but require an international approach. Preventive actions to...
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The Agriculture Advantage
7 November, BonnThe agriculture advantage: the case for climate action in agriculture, an IFAD and Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Programme of the CGIAR (CCAFS) led series of events at...
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Gender responsive adaptation in smallholder agriculture: Challenges and...
UNFCCC COP23, Bonn, 8 NovemberHere in Bonn, IFAD and the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) held the first session of the Agriculture Advantage Series–...
View ArticleVoices on Land Use at Climate Conference
By Oliver MundyThe UN systems side event "Climate action for food security: harvesting adaptation and mitigation benefits in the land sector" was jointly organized by IFAD, the International...
View ArticleHow to finance community resilience
By Oliver Mundy and Ilaria FirmianDeveloped countries have committed to mobilising $100 billion in climate finance per year by 2020 to support climate adaptation and mitigation in developing countries....
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Youth engagement in climate smart agriculture
IFAD partnered with the Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (CSAYN) to come to UNFCCC COP23 in Bonn this November. IFAD and CSAYN have a shared passion for raising awareness of climate change...
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