'Smallholder farmers are on the front lines of climate change'

After winning the Africa Food Prize 2016 for his advocacy to place smallholder farmers at centre of agricultural agenda, Kanayo F Nwanze explains …

Can agriculture in Africa sustain a nourishing rural non-farm economy?

Across Africa interest in agricultural investment as a source of employment growth and profit is increasing

Climate change threatens livelihood of 70% in Mozambique: WFP

Broken rainfall patterns, droughts a threat to agriculture

Report places rural transformation at the heart of economic development

IFAD report bats for emphasis on agriculture and employment to reduce rural poverty

Dramatic changes needed in global food systems to address nutrition disparity, poverty: IFAD

The report Transforming Food Systems for Rural Prosperity called for investment in rural farms and local small- and medium-size enterprises 

Local knowledge refined with tech & funds can help climate adaptation in Asia-Pacific: IFAD

Digital mapping along with local knowledge can be useful to identify climate-vulnerable hotspots

Ahead of IUCN event, IFAD calls for more investment to protect biodiversity

IFAD president says protecting biodiversity is crucial to fight hunger, ahead of IUCN event in Marseille  

India's WTO stand gets support of UN agricultural development agency chief

Targeted approach to benefit the poorest rather than universalisation of food security is right way to go ahead, says Kanayo F Nwanze

‘South Asia has highest number of chronically hungry people’

UN hunger report says main challenge for the region is overcoming slow progress in improving low levels of food utilisation

COVID-19 pandemic, repeated weather shocks drove 122 million more to hunger since 2019: UN 

If trends remain as they were, the UN-mandated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of ending hunger by 2030 will not be reached

One in every nine persons in the world goes hungry: UN State of Food Insecurity Report

Asia houses 526 million of the 805 million chronically undernourished people in the world

Wheat wave

Climate change impact on agriculture: 50 million to be poor by 2030, says UN body

Rising displacement due to disasters fuelling more conflicts

South, Southeast Asia have most of world’s underweight youth: IFAD

Number of those overweight also increasing; more underweights in rural areas 

Single ministry to look after watershed programmes

IFAD and Morocco sign $25 million dollar deal to finance rural development

This project aims to reduce poverty by 30 per cent by 2030