European Investment Bank confirms EUR 500 million loan to IFAD to invest in global food security
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have signed their first financial agreement today. The EIB will...
Community-driven decentralization and reconciliation in Palestine
By Yossef Ben-Meir Marrakech, Morocco
A decentralized governance administration, whose procedures and functioning are defined from implementing a wide range of local development projects across...
Zimbabwe to host its first rabbit meat expo
Zimbabwe will next week host its inaugural rabbit meat expo in Bulawayo as the demand for the small mammals’ meat is rising in the...
The UN’s Agricultural Development Fund finds that its investments in small-scale farming are net...
New research shows that investments in small-scale farmers and poor rural populations in developing countries over 20 years by the International Fund for Agricultural...
Long-term rural development necessary to end cycle of ‘multicrisis’, UN agency to tell Paris...
As world leaders gather this week in Paris to leverage their collective power against crises threatening global stability, the president of the UN's lnternational...
Farmers embrace smart insurance to guard against climate shocks
With the help of images taken via satellite and smartphones, ACRE Africa’s Picture Based Insurance (PBI) project is working to make smart insurance accessible...
Zambia embarks on input distribution
The onset of the rains in Zambia has prompted the Government to sustain the distribution of the farming inputs in the country in an...
2.5m acres under water after torrential floods hit West, Central Africa
Nearly 2.5 million acres of farmland in West and Central Africa are under water following unprecedented floods- posing a long-term threat to the region's...
IFAD to lead the food pillar of Egypt’s Nexus for Water, Food and Energy...
The Government of Egypt has selected the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to lead a multi-billion dollar food and agriculture pillar. NWFE is...
UN Project: HomeBiogas Will Turn Farm Waste Into Renewable Energy in Rwanda
HomeBiogas announces this achievement while participating in COP27, focusing on climate change solutions for Africa
HomeBiogas will be supplying biogas systems for the treatment of organic...