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AVANTI: another step towards strengthening governments’ ability to report...
by Eugenia Stefanelli Martín, Raphael Seiwald and Eloisa de Villalobos Last week the AVANTI – Advancing Knowledge for Agricultural Impact initiative was officially launched as a side event of IFAD's...
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The Ramsar Convention: channelling actions for the future of wetlands
A mangrove preservation and ecotourism development site in Pintu Kota, Lembeh Island, North Sulawesi. ©IFAD/Susan BeccioWetlands are land areas that are flooded with water, either seasonally or...
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A training workshop facilitated by IFAD to support PASIDP II’s market access...
The training was provided by Andrew MacPherson, an international agribusiness consultant for IFAD and a farmer with extensive experience in the field of agriculture production and marketing. The role...
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Household methodologies for gender transformation and project effectiveness....
"I have a dream. It is that all IFAD projects incorporate household methodologies in their activities. I really hope we can work together towards this". On this note, ECG Director Margarita Astralaga...
View ArticleEvaluation criteria: who wins and who loses from development interventions?
By Oscar Garcia, Director, Independent Office of Evaluation of IFADThe evaluation criteria developed by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in 1991 influenced the practice of evaluation in...
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Making the case for more holistic food systems
©IFAD/ Guy StubbsThe world faces the huge and complex task of providing healthy and accessible food for a population projected to reach 10 billion in 2050 while reducing agriculture's environmental and...
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Terra Madre 2018
Guaraná sticks as traditionally prepared by the Sateré Mawé people, that first discovered Guaraná and is today one of the major producers of the performance enhancing plant. The Sateré Mawé peoples is...
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GO WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN
By Oliver MundyKyrgyzstan has a unique problem: it has an abundance of rich high-alpine summer pastures, but these are hard to reach. Roads and buildings from the Soviet time have deteriorated. Other...
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Climate change and food security: Is the link strong enough?
Food security and climate change are inextricably interlinked, and policy-makers and experts can and should work for more integrated approaches addressing both. That is the main takeaway from a side...
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Climate resilient programmes in Mali: What we know and how to do it better
by Margherita Calderone (Overseas Development Institute) and Ilaria Firmian (IFAD)The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has highlighted the urgent need for...
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Annual Plenary Meeting of the Smallholder and Agri-SME Finance and Investment...
by Aïnina Aïdara and Marzia PerilliOn 11-12 October 2018, the Smallholder and Agri-SME Finance and Investment Network (SAFIN) held its second Annual Plenary Meeting and a workshop on 'Business Models...
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Expertos de seis países se reúnen en Bolivia para compartir estrategias que...
Expertos y autoridades de tres países africanos y tres países latinoamericanos han pasado una semana en Bolivia visitando emprendimientos rurales que están gestionando riesgos medioambientales para...
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IFAD and research institutions join forces to advance climate change...
Cutting edge information, accurate data and state-of-the-art intelligence are essential to design high quality and impactful projects in smallholder agriculture. IFAD and a number of universities,...
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Going Beyond Data to Develop a Global Status Report on Land Governance
By Everlyne NairesiaeRizki Rahmat/ILCIn September 2018, members of the International Land Coalition (ILC) and other stakeholders from grassroot organisations, activists, local and international NGOs,...
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Domestic investments in land: a resource for rural development
by Robyn Stewart (ILC), Giulia Barbanente (IFAD) and Romy Sato (GDPRD)Bandung, Sandra Apaza/ILC‘Smallholders are also agricultural investors’The first speaker was Justine Sylvester from Village Focus...
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Collecting data on disability through censuses and surveys
By Daniel Mont, Center for Inclusive Policy According to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities all people, regardless of disability status, have the same rights to be full member of...
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Dakar to Bandung: changes in land governance since 2015
Lorenzo Cotula, Prinicipal Researcher at IIEDThursday, 8 November 2018In many parts of the world, land relations are experiencing rapid and profound change. People who have a strong connection with the...
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Rural women and agriculture in Zimbabwe
“Challenges and opportunities in climate-resilient agriculture for gender equality and empowerment of rural women and girls”This was the theme at the half day workshop on the commemoration of the...
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More data - better governance of land tenure?
©FAO By Romy SatoIn the last five years, significant steps have been taken to put land tenure security as a priority in global policy frameworks, but also in implementation plans. A side event at...
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Investing in biodiversity for people and planet
Carrying on the tradition of the Pharaohs, who prized biodiversity, Egypt is hosting the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 14) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in...
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