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The general objective is to help reduce poverty, as well as food and nutritional insecurity in rural communities in the central highlands of Madagascar. The specific objective is to help reduce the vulnerability...

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is WFP’s flagship approach for integrated climate risk management. The initiative combines four risk management strategies: improved natural resource...

Climate resilience can be built through risk finance helping communities deal with climate shocks and empowering women. This publication presents four different women...

WFP is making climate risk insurance solutions work for food insecure populations. In 2021, WFP protected over 2.7 million people in 19 countries with climate...

Since 1979, IFAD has funded 17 rural development projects in Madagascar for a total of US$434.285 million. Four projects are currently ongoing. The goal of the IFAD country...

As in many other African countries, the pathways for future agriculture and food systems in Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya and Madagascar can still be modelled to a certain extent. Amongst...

WFP has extensive experience integrating climate risk insurance solutions as an element of financial and social protection. This factsheet provides a summary of the evidence on how WFP-supported microinsurance...

While Southern Africa contributes only 1 percent to global carbon emissions, their temperatures are rising at double the global rate and climate impacts such...

This briefing investigates the ‘driving forces’ or ‘trends’ shaping southern African food systems. The analysis is intended to raise awareness of the potential to shape future outcomes in this complex multi-faceted...

Agroecological approaches were applied in highlands of Madagascar in developing improved practices with the aim to enhance ecological processes to increase food production. To achieve this goal, researchers in Madagascar...