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Key messages The NENA region is dominated by deserts and a harsh environment. The main characteristics are a high level of aridity and water stress, poor soils and limited...

Rapid economic growth and market integration have transformed Viet Nam’s economy and integrated it into global markets. Yet in rural areas, poverty remains severe...

China is the fourth largest country in the world and home to more than 1.3 billion people. It is an immense expanse that includes vast seacoasts, fertile plains and valleys, rugged...

The Kyrgyz Republic is a mountainous, landlocked country of 199,951 km2 bordering China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. In 2019, its population was estimated at some...

Since 1980, IFAD has invested US$751.6 million in 20 programmes and projects in Ethiopia, with an overall cost of US$2,157.6 million and benefiting more than 11 million households. IFAD...

Collaboration between the Republic of Moldova and IFAD began in 1999. IFAD has supported seven projects totalling US$196.8 million, with IFAD financing of US$109.2 million. An estimated...

The current IFAD results-based country strategic opportunities programme supports the government’s poverty reduction initiatives and has three strategic objectives: Enable poor smallholders to take...

Africa’s wheat consumption is increasing for several reasons, including population and income growth, urbanization and changing lifestyles. Most African countries are thus spending millions...

There are different views around the future of smallholder agriculture and its potential to contribute to the needed transformations of agriculture and rural economies. Over and above social benefits...