Investing in rural economies can alleviate impact of high food prices on the world’s poorest people.
Stories & Blogs IFADJul 22, 2025(Press Release )With high food prices affecting people around the world, especially in low-income countries, Alvaro Lario, President of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), highlighted the urgency of making strategic investments in agriculture
Turning carbon into opportunity: how Africa’s carbon markets can power people and deliver the SDGs
Stories & Blogs UNDP-AfricaJul 16, 2025(Blog )From clean energy to climate-smart agriculture, the green transition in Africa will require trillions of dollars.This transformation is essential, yet it cannot be funded by governments alone.
4 steps to boost private investment in rural development.
Stories & Blogs IFADJul 03, 2025(Explianer )At a time of overlapping global crises, small-scale farmers in developing countries are key to building stability and prosperity that benefit everyone. But they can’t do it alone.
EU and WFP enhance self-reliance and food security for refugees and host communities in Uganda.
Stories & Blogs WPFJul 02, 2025(News )Uganda hosts 1.9 million refugees and asylum seekers, making it the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa.
At UN Ocean Conference, IFAD advocates to boost innovative finance for coastal communities to protect the world’s oceans.
Stories & Blogs IFADJun 09, 2025(News )Governments, multilateral organizations and private sector actors must urgently scale-up innovative ways to drive finance to small-scale fishermen and coastal communities.
Hunger crisis threatens West and Central Africa as lean season looms : WFP races to provide food assistance to millions on the brink.
Stories & Blogs WPFMay 08, 2025(Story )Hunger and Sudan’s horrific war pushed Abdelminime Moussa from his homeland. Sitting in the sand at eastern Chad’s Koursigue refugee camp…
How a new Global Alliance aims to end hunger and poverty once and for all
Stories & Blogs IFADNov 15, 2024(Explainer )Over the past decades, the world has seen incredible achievements in fighting hunger and poverty.
Solutions to hunger exist. What we are lacking is finance
Stories & Blogs IFADJul 31, 2024(News )Hunger is not driven by a lack of food or an inability to grow it. Instead, it is primarily caused by conflict, climate change and economic fluctuations.
Major step in CAFI-Cameroon partnership: First $20 million project approved to support transition to deforestation-free agroecological practices
Stories & Blogs IFADJul 02, 2024(News )A first US$20 million project funded by the Central Africa Forest Initiative (CAFI) will support Cameroon’s small-scale cocoa and coffee producers adapt to the new European Union (EU) regulations
In Zambia, I saw rural resilience first-hand
Stories & Blogs IFADJun 18, 2024(Blog )Zambia has been hit hard by extreme weather events in recent years. Drought is impacting food security and rural livelihoods so severely that the government has declared it a national emergency.