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Time: 15:00-17:00 CEST The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development is organizing a series of webinars to help development actors better understand development finance and donor approaches. This webinar will review the main concepts of development finance, provide an overview of the current development financing architecture and outline key emerging issues in the area. Register here

Rome/Nairobi 4 June 2024: The African continent loses a staggering US$4 billion worth of soil nutrients annually due to erosion. This loss affects over 485 million people and threatens food security. To address this major challenge and obstacle to feed its growing population, the African Union (AU) convened the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health (AFSH) summit in May, in Nairobi Kenya.

Food systems are crumbling due to climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem destruction. Dwindling water sources and severe droughts are degrading soils, resulting in almost one quarter of the earth’s land being less productive. But it’s still possible to turn back the tide, restore ecosystems, and manage our land and water sustainably – if rural people take the lead. Learn from local communities In southern Mauritania, sparse rainfall has turned fields to badlands where nothing can grow.

Roma, 31 de mayo de 2024 – El Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola de las Naciones Unidas (FIDA) y el Grupo Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (Grupo BID) firmaron hoy un memorando de entendimiento para reforzar el apoyo que brindan a la población rural e indígena de América Latina y el Caribe, especialmente en la Amazonía.

Roma, 30 de mayo de 2024 – Con motivo del primer Día Internacional de la Papa, el Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola de las Naciones Unidas (FIDA) ha reafirmado hoy su compromiso de seguir invirtiendo en los productores de papa en América Latina con el fin de preservar este recurso natural, cultural e identitario, que juega un papel clave en la lucha contra el hambre y la malnutrición en todo el mundo.

The Solomon Islands are made up of about 1,000 islands spread over a vast expanse of the western Pacific Ocean. Like other Small Island Developing States (SIDS), the country is particularly vulnerable to external shocks and environmental crises due to its small size, remote location and limited resources. This became especially apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic, when 60 per cent of households reported running out of food. It wasn’t always this way.

Kigali/Rome, 25 May 2024: A high-level delegation from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), led by Gérardine Mukeshimana, IFAD Vice-President, visited Rwanda this week to discuss the country’s progress in developing rural areas and the investments needed to continue to promote inclusive and sustainable agricultural growth despite challenges including the effects of climate change.

Time: 14:00 - 15:00 CEST Join us for an in-depth exploration of the transformative role of sustainable finance in addressing global climate challenges and social upheavals. This event will also highlight the critical importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues to international collaboration between public and private sectors. Learn about the multi-trillion-dollar investments necessary to achieve ESG goals and the innovative financial strategies driving this movement.

Nairobi, 23 May 2024: Small-scale farmers are increasingly vulnerable to climate change impacts like erratic rainfall, droughts, and rising pest and disease threats.

Protecting biodiversity is about far more than nature – it’s at the heart of our own health and wellbeing. A few years ago, I visited an IFAD project for the first time and saw it firsthand. The rural women I met in Maharashtra state, India, had until recently struggled with low agricultural productivity and severe food insecurity – and a key cause was biodiversity decline.