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About 80 percent of the world's poorest and undernourished people live in rural areas. Most depend on smallholder agriculture for their lives and livelihoods.

In the Somali region of Ethiopia, rains have failed for the third consecutive year. The death of many livestock has caused a breakdown in pastoral livelihoods, contributing...

For urban dwellers in developing countries, waste reuse businesses can provide incentives to collect and process the 30-60% of waste that remains untreated by municipal serv..

The programme connected poor dairy producers - many of them women - to value chains and knowledge-sharing platforms to improve feeding methods.

The programme helped Assad and his brothers to level, terrace and fence their land. The brothers then built three water-harvesting cisterns and planted more than 1,000 olive..

If few opportunities are available in rural areas, they are likely to migrate overseas or to urban centres, even though youth unemployment rates are generally higher in...

Migration flows and the remittances that migrants send home are having large-scale impacts on the global economy and political landscape

Gilbert F. Houngbo, president of IFAD: "The Framework commits IFAD to working in ways that are bigger, better and smarter to maximize our impact on the lives of rural people"

Rural development is an important factor in efforts to achieve economic and social progress. A transformation of rural spaces, productive sectors and societies is needed

The conference aims to discuss the latest innovative approaches to the use of ICTs in evaluation and feature best practices that have emerged from the experiences of develop..