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Knowing the geographic location of people or things helps us to monitor well-being and assess the impact of events.

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating disruption - but sometimes offers opportunities for innovative solutions for rural farmers.

Chef Lance Seeto is an icon of South Pacific cuisine. He’s also been a supporter of IFAD’s Recipes for Change campaign for more than five years now.

“I joined this project because I believe food can really change the world.”

Small-scale farmers face multiple challenges in Cambodia - with limited access to credit and vulnerability to climate change. 

Four years ago, the residents of Chiquicha were just gathering the first fruits of an irrigation project.

Migrants are essential workers; they contribute to the economy of the places they go and, through remittances, to their communities back home.

En avril dernier, la Banque mondiale prévoyait une baisse de 20% des envois de fonds des migrants. Une mauvaise nouvelle pour l’Afrique.

Rethinking food systems for healthy diets and improved nutrition.

The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the loss of millions of jobs in the developed and developing world. 

In a world living with Covid-19, it is clear that supply chains and logistics should be simple and easy to manage. And that’s what several Indian states are doing.

Agricultural extension services play a fundamental role in building producers’ capacities to maintain good agricultural practices.

World Environment Day is a day set aside to raise awareness about environmental issues and encourage protective action. This year’s theme is “Time for Nature.”

Since the COVID-19 virus outbreak, much information and misinformation has been circulated about wet markets and an international rallying cry has been made for wet markets to be better regulated or even closed down.

Resilience has become the talk of the town in the development community.

To take advantage of the potential of AI, IFAD employed machine learning techniques to extract insights from across IFAD’s entire investment portfolio.

One emerging lesson from the pandemic is that those who are already vulnerable are likely to be the most severely impacted. 

In most of Africa, people are more likely to die from starvation caused by the economic fallout from the pandemic than from COVID-19 itself.

Development encompasses a wide range of actions that enables people, communities and nations to thrive even after projects have ended. 

It has been really inspiring to receive updates from the field over the past two months illustrating how IFAD-supported projects are continuing to deliver. 

Last week, the China Grain Reserve Group announced its intention to purchase 22 million tonnes of imported grain during 2020. Should China worry about food security?

This year’s theme for the International Day for Biological Diversity is “Our Solutions are in Nature.”

How can we enhance local capacity to respond to this emergency in an agile and inclusive manner?

Africa has so far escaped the worst health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the continent looks like it could be the worst hit.

We are in the middle of a shift in how development is financed. Impact investing is on the rise.

With most of the world sheltering in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ILO estimates that about 2.7 billion people are currently affected by workplace closures.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 820 million people were living in hunger. Tens of millions more will join them if we do not take the right actions, and quickly. 

Past experience tells us that quick, tailored support is required to ensure that the impacts of our projects are protected from the effects of the COVID-19 crisis.

After many years of sustained annual reductions in poverty and hunger across the Asia-Pacific region, the COVID-19 global pandemic is threatening a massive reversal of these gains and driving Asian countries into recession. 

On this day 50 years ago – the first Earth Day had just taken place – and a global movement was born.