IFAD

Some 663 people were killed and another 80,000 were left without homes and livelihoods when the most destructive earthquake in 70 years struck Ecuador on 16 April  2016

The project will support rural farmers to access finance, business and technical training, as well as improved infrastructure, such as rural roads, to support their access...

Building on each agency’s unique strength, FAO, IFAD and WFP staff in Madagascar pooled their resources and expertise to help people in affected areas in a variety of ways

Self-help groups such as the one Pandram joined also give women a chance to be involved in decision-making processes – often for the first time – and allow them to gain...

In remote rural areas of developing countries,an IFAD-supported project is helping women gain the financial and literary skills needed to market and sell their woven products

“We need to face the fact that we will never overcome poverty and hunger without empowering rural women,” said IFAD President Kanayo F. Nwanze in a media release on the...

Rénilde Buhembe, 54, mother of 3, was widowed at age 18 and when in 1993, civil war broke out, she took in three more little boys who had lost their parents in the conflict

Pope Francis stressed the need to  reconcile development, both social and cultural, with the protection of indigenous peoples and their territories, "especially when...

“When people face the prospect of dying in poverty and hunger, they migrate to cities and beyond. For them, no ocean is wide enough, no fence will ever rise high enough, no...

In 1995, after long years of struggle, the Kiriri indigenous people regained their ancestral lands in the north-eastern state of Bahia, Brazil. That was the beginnng of a...