The paper examines IFAD’s Rural Livelihood Development Project and Crisis Response Initiative in Yemen, highlighting strategies to empower women within Yemen’s complex political and social context. It shows how targeted interventions – such as livestock support and water access – can enhance resilience and participation for women-headed households. Both projects combined...

Over one billion people on this planet have a disability, many of them in rural areas. Persons with disabilities play an essential role in food systems, yet many barriers remain to their full participation in rural societies. In this episode, we explore how inclusive rural development changes lives – and what it means...

It’s a great paradox that the sector that relies the most on biodiversity, agriculture, is also the greatest threat to the world’s most fragile ecosystems. The question isn’t how to just minimize the impact of farming on biodiversity, but how to put biodiversity at the heart of all agricultural policies...

This document corresponds to Chapter 5 of the IPBES thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity.  

This study aims to optimize the bioconversion of palm kernel cake (PKC) by Pleurotus ostreatus to improve fungal biomass production, lignocellulolytic enzyme expression, and the nutritional value of the substrate as ruminant feed. Three inorganic nitrogen sources (ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate, and urea) were evaluated for fungal biomass production using a central...

Persons with disabilities have the same rights to participate in rural life as anyone, but they aren’t always able to exercise these rights. This isn’t just a missed opportunity for them – it’s a loss for entire rural communities, societies and economies. What we call a “disability” emerges from the enduring...

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) on 17 December 2018. In this publication, we will describe the role of social movements and civil society organizations (CSOs) in the promotion and monitoring of UNDROP....

This study investigates the effect of political stability on rice yield improvement in nine West African countries from 1995 to 2023, with particular attention to the role of the National Rice Development Strategy (NRDS). Using Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) panel estimations that account for heteroskedasticity and serialcorrelation, the results...

New study demonstrates that supporting and investing in farmer-led agroecology improves resilience, yields, income, and wellbeing, even during one of Burkina Faso’s driest years on record.

Climate variability in Colombia threatens water supplies for rice and other crops, highlighting the urgent need for efficient irrigation techniques. This study was conducted over three growing seasons in the Tolima region and evaluated three irrigation techniques: cascade distribution (CD), multiple inlet rice irrigation (MIRI), and alternate wetting and drying...

The Food and Nutrition Science Laboratory (FNSL) unit of IITA–CGIAR commits to ensuring food and nutrition security on the continent by harnessing the potential of IITA mandate crops and underutilized legumes. This is coming at a critical time, as Africa’s wheat imports have been rising at an annual rate of 9%, with...

La COP29 qui s’est achevée fin novembre 2024 à Bakou a une fois de plus mis en lumière les inégalités criantes à travers le monde en termes de financement de l’adaptation au changement climatique et de l’atténuation des émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Les négociateurs africains sont arrivés...

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French AO. “Food Plant Solutions Brief Guide to Food Plants in Ghana” is a limited selection of food plants intended as a Draft Guide only to identify some local food plants...

Many agrifood development projects and programmes aim to support evidence-based and inclusive policies by organizing policy dialogues. Yet, despite their widely recognized importance, there is little guidance available to date on how to organize effective policy dialogues that are inclusive of diverse stakeholders. This training guide has been developed to...

This document corresponds to the Glossary of the IPBES thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiverty. Language influences how we perceive the world and how we think about and communicatetransformative change. It also influences the actions...

This updated technical guide for ABC-Map, the Adaptation, Biodiversity and Carbon Mapping Tool, provides an overview of ABC-Map, including the methodologies and data sources it utilizes.This third edition of the Technical Guide for the Adaptation, Biodiversity and Carbon Mapping Tool presents an updated, comprehensive, user-friendly resource which provides (i) an...

Initiatives to restore soil fertility and mitigate global warming rely on rebuilding soil organic carbon (SOC). Nitrogen (N) fertilization is crucial for crop yields but affects SOC unpredictably due to varying responses of particulate organic carbon (POC) and mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) pools to initial SOC levels. To clarify these...

Lake Victoria – the second largest lake in the world – supports around 200,000 fishers in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, with more than 50 million people depending on it directly or indirectly for their livelihoods. But with fish being a highly perishable product, fishing communities have little time to either...

L’Afrique, qui n’est responsable que de 4% des émissions mondiales de gaz à effet de serre, est une des zones les plus vulnérables aux effets du changement climatique. Cependant, le continent ne reçoit qu’une fraction des fonds climat, à peine 30 milliards $US en 2020 : c’est seulement 3 %...

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