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Berkeley - Three weeks to go
Hi everybody! This is the first post regarding my forthcoming special leave to Berkeley. Fyi, I still need to get familiar with the blog reporting system but I committed to Henock (whom I want to thank...
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Uganda hosts Learning Route on “Innovative ideas to secure rights to...
IFAD and PROCASUR have once again organized another successful Learning Route (LR). Uganda’s IFAD supported project, Vegetable Oil Development Project (VODP), was one of the host cases for the LR,...
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Photo blog: LR on "Innovative ideas to secure rights to resources & land...
As earlier shared (link), during this LR, we visited three cases, focusing on two different business models: Nucleus estate and out grower model (VODP), and Contract Farming (Star Café &Kabeywa...
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I must admit that I did not expect so many queries and questions to my first post. The two most FAQs were: “What are you going to do? “ and “What did you do to get there?”. Regarding the first question...
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IFAD is there, even in the remote villages of Orissa
Women from a remote village in Orissa State, India. ©IFADBy Antonella CordoneORISSA, India – Greetings from Orissa, where the Joint Supervision Mission for the Orissa Tribal Empowerment and Livelihoods...
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Why Country Programme Management Team Meetings?
Some Highlights from the Uganda Country Programme Management Team (CPMT) Meeting 4 – 6 September 2013We recently held our CPMT in Masindi District, Western Uganda. The CPMT focused on the Household...
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Knowledge Management in Practice
Providing a platform for Stakeholders to come togetherBy Line Kaspersen, IFAD Uganda County OfficeEffectiveness and efficiency of decentralised project implementation requires that we are all on the...
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Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme
Informal Seminar Meeting shows the importance of upscaling climate proof concepts within the rural agricultural development agendaClimate change imposes stress on the livelihoods of smallholder...
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“Grow what you eat, eat what you grow”, the self-reliant farming motto.
“Grow what you eat, eat what you grow”, the self-reliant farming mottoDeveloping Rural Territories through Business and Knowledge: The Thai experience with the OTOP and CLCThai rural development...
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IFAD facilitates Session at the GSSD Expo 2013 Solution Exchange Forum
By Betty Tole, IFADAfricaThe Global South-South Development (GSSD) Expo 2013 entered its second day yesterday, 29October 2013, featuring Solution Exchange Forums led by various UN agencies and a...
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Failure and success: Two sides of the same coin #failfaire
By Laura ArcariIFAD’s first FailFaire took place at our Headquarters on 29 October 2013. The immediate question that came into my mind was why failure? Why not talk directly about success, who wants...
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First impressions at the first South-South Expo held in Africa
By Antonella PiccolellaIFAD grants booth at the Expo. ©IFADAs government ministers, business leaders and experts gathered in Nairobi yesterday to discuss southern-grown solutions, they were greeted by...
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Working with farmer groups for greater impact
It is a bright and sunny day as we travel to meet farmer groups in the Republic of Southern Sudan's Eastern Equatorial Province, Magwi county. On a supervision/implementation support mission for the...
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#failfaire – Speakers at IFAD forum spotlight ‘intelligent failure’ as the...
Scribe's wall from the morning session of IFAD's first FAILfaire. ©IFAD“Failure is not an option.” The traditional viewpoint of many a hard-driving manager is embodied in that pep-talk cliché. But an...
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Make more misstakes #failfaire
by Rima AlcadiPicture of Tim Harford, by Barbara GravelliTim Harford is an economist. Tim is also: a member of the Financial Times editorial board; a broadcaster; an award-winning speaker (see his...
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Development Practitioners Support the IFAD Case for Scaling Up
By Betty Makelemu ToleIFAD staff, representatives of other UN agencies, partners, non-governmental organizations, community based, and private sector organizations were on 31 October 2013 united in...
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West Africa's food potential and the case for staple foods - IFAD/FAO...
The domino effect of the financial meltdown, speculative pressure on once ignored food markets and the global energy crisis sent food commodity prices careening in 2007. Consumers would be forced to...
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Think anew, act anew #failfaire
by Rima AlcadiDave Snowden, seen here at IFAD’s FAILFaire, is the founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge, a research network focusing on complexity theory in sense-making.A great piece...
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Focus on East Africa
Highlights from the International Symposium and Exhibition on Agricultural Development in the East Africa Community Partner States.The Vice President of Uganda (Chief Guest), H.E Edward Ssekandi,...
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Berkeley - Great experience. Ready to be scaled up?
Greetings from Berkeley. 6 weeks have gone already. Very intensive and productive time. My graduate seminar has absorbed quite a bit of energy but has been extremely rewarding. Competent and motivated...
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