Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty

In focus

Looking up on Mount Kenya – naturally!

The IFAD-supported Mount Kenya East Pilot Project for Natural Resources Management has benefited more than half a million people by managing development with nature in mind.

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Stories from the field

Roots of change: Empowering rural women in Nepal

An IFAD-supported project in Nepal provides loans and training to help women in upland districts generate more income and improve their household circumstances.

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In focus

Delivering on Africa’s promise

Cape Town meetings of the World Economic Forum and Grow Africa Partnership look to inclusive, sustainable growth in Africa, with an eye on smallholder farmers.

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Stories from the field

Women, unity, water: Adapting to climate change and improving livelihoods in Swaziland

An IFAD-supported project in Swaziland brings rural women together to build water harvesting tanks for their households – part of an overall approach to sustainable resource management.

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Stories from the field

Sustainability and more: how building local institutions keeps communities thriving

The IFAD-funded Post-crisis Programme for Participatory Integrated Development of Rainfed Areas (PIDRA) closed in 2009, but the benefits for participating communities in eastern Java are still very much being felt.

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Speeches and statements

Opening statement by IFAD President on the occasion of the visit of H.E. Dirk Niebel, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Press releases

Press conference at Global Forum on Remittances 2013 - Sending money home to Asia Dirk Niebel visits UN organisations in Rome

Job opportunity at IFAD

Head of Language Services, Office of the Secretary Division, P-5
Events

20-23 May

Global Forum on Remittances 2013Global View all events
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On Bolivia's high Andean plain, 4,500 metres above sea level, alpacas and llamas are becoming big business for poor ranchers.