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Uganda has made enormous progress in reducing poverty, yet one in three rural people still live below the poverty line. This factsheet outlines IFAD’s...

IFAD has been engaged in South Sudan since 2011. Its long-term vision for the country is to gradually contribute to the reduction of food and nutrition insecurity and poverty among rural...

Highlights: Progress was made in Latin America and the Caribbean in the fight against hunger and food insecurity, driven by improvements in South America. Between 2021 and 2022...

Gender dynamics affect the ways in which the livestock sector contributes to sustaining livelihoods. Women comprise most poor livestock keepers in low- and middle-income countries, and are...

IFAD is one of Sri Lanka’s longest-standing development partners. Since its first investment in the country in 1978, IFAD has implemented 19 projects in Sri Lanka, benefiting...

This paper is a Rapid Evidence Assessment that summarizes the role of smallholder producers and Small and Medium-sized Agrifood Enterprises (SMAE) across the five Action Tracks associated with the Food Systems...

Small-scale producers of coffee and cocoa in Indonesia grow key crops but are being hard hit by the impacts of the climate crisis. IFAD’s INSURED programme has been...

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensied the already critical situation of maize production in Kayonza, largely due to smallholder farmers' restricted access to vital extension services and training...

This year in review is a snapshot of the Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition in 2022.

Highlights: The Decade of Family Farming provides an extraordinary opportunity for the United Nations to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an inclusive, collaborative and coherent way. Putting...