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Changing minds and mobilising for drought management
By Marie-Aude Even, Senior Regional Agronomist During COP14, two side events and a publication sought to engage further policy makers in moving to a proactive approach through active engagement and...
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Drought high on the COP14 agenda
By Marie-Aude Even, IFAD Senior Regional AgronomistDroughts affect many regions, notably drylands, which include a third of world's population and majority of the world’s poor; produce 44 per cent of...
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Sharing new approaches to bring together gender, youth, nutrition and climate
Participant from Malian delegation at seed producer cooperative in Lemo Bilbilo District. Photo credit: S. Samuel, CCAFSEmerging evidence show that interventions that can fully integrate multiple...
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The impact of remittances on rural transformation in Africa: from commitment...
11 October 2019 African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The event was organized by Ecuador’s Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) 2019 Chair, in partnership with IFAD and the...
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Drought day engages policy makers, women & innovative financing at COP14
By Marie-Aude Even (Senior Regional Agronomist), Michael Hamp (Lead Regional Specialist – Rural Finance, Market Access and Value Chain), Audrey Nepveu (Global specialist – Water & Rural...
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COP14 - IFAD shares country experiences in UN-Water drought event
By Marie-Aude Even, IFAD Senior Regional AgronomistOn 5 September 2019, IFAD participated to the UN-water side event - Dealing with drought: a multifaceted view that shared country integrated drought...
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Gender Awards 2019: Celebrating the Real Groundbreakers!
By Elena Flores RuizOn Friday, 11 October 2019, we had the pleasure to celebrate the fifth edition of the IFAD Gender Awards at our headquarters in Rome, kindly sponsored by the Government of Spain....
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Recognising results: NEN project performance awards in Monitoring &...
By Isabelle StordeurOctober 2019Responding to the ambitious goals of the Agenda 2030 requires a culture of results. This is to ensure that our activities on the ground are relevant, inclusive and...
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Linking project knowledge to policy engagement
By Ilaria Firmian, Regional Specialist, APR, IFAD KLMPE participants presenting a project experience on participatory mappingKnowledge management and policy engagement are both high on IFAD’s agenda,...
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COP 25 - Driving food system transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean
With Chile holding the presidency for the ongoing 25th Conference of the Parties in Madrid, Latin America and the Caribbean were always likely to feature prominently throughout proceedings. That proved...
View ArticleRaising ambition for climate action in Latin America through transformation...
Drawing on the latest scientific findings from the Transforming Food Systems Under a Changing Climate initiative, the CGIAR’s Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)...
View ArticleInterview Liza Leclerc on Climate Action Report 2019
IFAD’s Climate Action Report 2019 was released this week at the UNFCCC COP25 in Madrid, Spain. The report is designed to inform as well as inspire those in the global community and in the field working...
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Solar egg incubators transform livelihoods in Cambodia
Veth Lay lives in Kdei Run Village in Cambodia and is the head of a family of five. Their livelihood was in a difficult situation with their main source of income from rice farming and construction...
View ArticleRaising ambition for climate action in Latin America through transformation...
Drawing on the latest scientific findings from the Transforming Food Systems Under a Changing Climate initiative, the CGIAR’s Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)...
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Rangelands Initiative partners supporting and facilitating side events at the...
By Fiona Flintan, ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) and coordinator of the ILC Rangelands Initiative global componentThe Committee on Food Security (CFS) of the Food and Agricultural...
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Raising the importance of a people and community-centred land tenure approach...
Marie-Aude Even - Senior regional agronomist for Asia/Pacific (IFAD)Land tenure was high on the official agenda and side events of UNCCD’s recent COP14, held in New Delhi. A working document was...
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Strategic partnership to improve geo-spatial information on communities’ lands
Photo credit @CADASTA 2019By Jimmy Gaudin, Land Tenure analyst, IFAD; Madaleine Weber, Communications Director, CADASTA; Emmanuel Sulle, Consultant, IFAD Secure and equal access to land is fundamental...
View ArticleBringing water to the households and well-being to the women of Saora Tribal...
Phatakasing is a small village consisting of 24 households of Saora tribe (one of the 13 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups inhabiting in the Indian State of Odisha) on the bank of Mahendra Tanaya...
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Conference on Land Policy in Africa: IFAD supports the mainstreaming of land...
By Giulia Barbanente and Harold LiversageBetween 24 and 29 November 2019, IFAD attended the third edition of the Conference on Land Policy in Africa in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The event was organised...
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Documenting a successful multi-stakeholder partnership on land in Tanzania:...
By Jimmy Gaudin (Technical Analyst - Land Tenure Desk PMI), Fiona Flintan (Technical Specialist – ILRI), Bernard Baha (TALA Coordinator & NES Facilitator Tanzania), Juma Mwatima (Senior Country...
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