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The objective of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises (CFS-FFA, the Framework) is to improve the food security and nutrition of populations...

For millions of poor people in East and Southern Africa, bamboo has huge potential to alleviate poverty, protect the environment and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Africa...

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 advantage...

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...

This collection of sustainable land management (SLM) technologies and approaches was compiled as part of the Scaling-up SLM practices by smallholder farmers project funded by IFAD.Sustainable land management...

Agrobiodiversity is a resource that supports human and environmental wellbeing.IFAD’s support for the better use of agrobiodiversity with specific reference to neglected and underutilized species (NUS) and a greater recognition of the traditional knowledge...

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...

A number of studies have examined the direct impacts of cash crop production on producer households. This is the first to quantify the general equilibrium impacts of introducing a new cash crop...

Brazil and Africa share similar environmental, climate and social conditions, and both face similar development challenges. This creates interesting opportunities for South-South collaboration through technology...

This report presents selected achievements and lessons from the growing portfolio of fisheries and aquaculture investments supported by IFAD.The introduction summarizes key issues and gives an overview of IFAD-supported actions...