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Moving beyond the rhetoric
By Nicholas PhythianMoving beyond the rhetoric...For many reporters, the challenge at any international gathering is to get beyond the rhetoric and statistics and make it relevant for the reader, the...
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Pro-Rural Poor Public and Private Partnership in Lao PDR. Learning from best...
From the 25 February to the 1st of March, the Learning Route on Pro-Rural Poor Public and Private Partnership took place in Attapeu province, Lao PDR. Farmers and staff from IFAD programme and projects...
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A battle on every front: how to fight violence against women
I remember a time a while back when I proposed to colleagues that we run a story on violence against women and I was told that gender-based violence was ‘not on our agenda’ – and in any case there were...
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Learning Route in Morocco
Meeting Successful Farmers’ Organizations After many Learning Routes in South America, Asia and East Africa, the first Learning Route in the MENA region has started on Monday 25th of February in...
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Taking the learning route to Morocco
By ILEIA Twenty participants from nine countries in northern Africa and the Middle East and a support team of experts from four other countries are gathered in Agadir since February 25th, for taking a...
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Learning = working
By Mireille Vermeulen- ILEIA A Learning Route is a continuous process of training in the field organized thematically around successful experiences, case studies and best practices on innovative rural...
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Learning Route Morocco - Working together to gain
By ANCAThe learning route on Producers´ Organisations has finished with the first case, which was ANCA, National Association of Women´s Cooperatives of Argan oil. Argan oil comes from the nuts of a...
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Learning Route Morocco - Farmers in agricultural politics
By ANOCThe learning route on Farmers’ Organisations in Morocco shows three different types of organisation to the ruteros, all with their own characteristics. The route has arrived in the region of...
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Big is beautiful
Reporting from the learning route site, 2nd case study on farmers´ organizations – COPAGIt is hard to imagine that the immense factory of COPAG, producing fruit and dairy products, has started 25 years...
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Developing agriculture from the sky
By Kelsea Brennan-Wessels, Editor, Earth Obervation, ESRINFrom 800 km high, Earth-observing satellites are assisting international developmentorganisations with their work in developing countries....
View ArticleCAMARI-TEAM NATIONAL TRAINERS HAVE STARTED BUILDING THEIR PYRAMID IN CAIRO
Kamal, Fathi, Gamal, Ibrahim and Hamdi wrote,National trainers from Egypt, Sudan and Somalia have successfully completed the first week of the TOT Programme in M&E conducted by Regional Trainers in...
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3, 2, 1 – Lift Off – Satellite Imagery and GIS mapping for IFAD
A few days ago I sat in the learning event on satellite imagery and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) organized by PTA, ECD and the European Space Agency (ESA) thinking this will probably be a...
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March 12 and 13: Reclaiming the desert
By Laura Eggens, ILEIA The Learning Route set course for West Nubaria, an area where “the desert has been reclaimed”. Overcrowding in the fertile land of the Egypt Delta led to resettlement of a number...
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Rural women meeting in Bolivia: Overcoming the barriers
By Ilaria FirmianLast week I was on a design mission for ASAP-ACCESOS programme in Bolivia, and I got the chance to participate in a meeting of rural women that the IFAD country office organised in La...
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Old meets new
Egypt learning route continues to Old Lands of SharkiaMarch 14-15 - Old Lands of Sharkia - After a visit to the New Lands in West Nubaria, the Learning Route continued its journey to a completely...
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Seychelles: an island at “the end of the world” holds solutions to survival...
By: Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural DevelopmentPeter Sinon, Seychelles Minister of Investment, Natural Resources and IndustryCalled “the island at the end of the...
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Social learning to tackle the ‘wicked problem’ of climate change
by Gernot LagandaEver come across a truly ‘wicked problem’? The term comes from social planning theory, describing a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve for a number of reasons: Incomplete...
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A different success story
By Laura Eggens15-16 March, Cairo - Normally on a Learning Route, the ruteros visit successful cases in the field. This time, the field came to us. Members of the Water Users Union (WUU) in the Tenth...
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Scaling best development experiences through the “Learning Routes” in Nepal
Kathmandu, 3 April 2013: A 10 day field-based training program called “Learning Routes” was opening for implementation in Kathmandu, Nepal today. Co-organised by PROCASUR and the International Fund for...
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New knowledge sparks new ways of thinking for rural development
Lam PhamKM and Communication Specialist, IFAD Vietnam Sapkota and his fatherIt is early in the morning in Kavrepalanchok, Rayale in the hilly District of Kavre, Central Nepal, about 5 hours driving...
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