
Promoting economic inclusion of small-scale farmers through home-grown school feeding in Timor-Leste
Supporting local agrifood systems through stable market linkages in Manufahi municipality
09/09/2024
Timor-Leste is a small country in Southeast Asia with over 1.3 million people, of which over 70 percent live in rural areas. Its territory is exposed to a wide array of natural hazards, including floods, droughts and earthquakes. The most [...]

Combining cash transfers with productive assets, inputs, agricultural and nutrition trainings to support vulnerable and poor rural households in Jalal-Abad Province
09/09/2024
Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked, lower-middle-income country in Central Asia with a population of 7 million. Between 2012 and 2019 the level of poverty declined significantly, but poverty rates in rural areas remained higher than in urban areas, with healthy diets [...]

Promoting the central importance of the economic and social roles of women in the context of the United Nations Rome-based Agencies Resilience Initiative
24/01/2024
From 2017 to 2023, with support from the Government of Canada, the United Nations Rome-based agencies (RBAs) – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme [...]

Gender-sensitive approaches promoted by the Rome-based Agencies Resilience Initiative
04/01/2024
From 2017 to 2023, the United Nations Rome-based agencies (RBA) – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP) – implemented a joint initiative funded [...]

18/06/2021
Natural hazard‑induced disasters (NHID), such as floods, droughts, severe storms, and animal pests and diseases have significant, widespread and long‑lasting impacts on agricultural sectors around the world. With climate change set to amplify many of these impacts, a “business‑as‑usual” approach to disaster risk management in agriculture [...]