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In the famine prone Aguié province in Niger, the Ministry of Agriculture is implementing PPILDA (Project for the Promotion of Local Initiative for Development in Aguié), an IFAD-financed rural...

Case: Allotment gardens Cagayan d Óro in the Philippines.

Cash transfers, in the context of social protection programs are emerging in many developing countries as a leading initiative in tackling poverty and vulnerability.

In One Billion Hungry, Sir Gordon Conway, one of the world’s foremost experts on global food needs, explains the many interrelated issues critical to our global food supply from the science of...

There are approximately 400 to 500 million small farms around the world. This implies that some two billion people – a third of the world‘s population – are dependent on smallholding for their livelihoods.

In One Billion Hungry, Sir Gordon Conway, one of the world’s foremost experts on global food needs, explains the many interrelated issues critical to our global food supply from the science of agricultural advances to the politics of food security.

Today was the main Nature+ Food day at the IUCN Congress.  There was clearly a lot on people's minds as they headed to their various morning sessions.  In summary it came out of discussions that there was a need for the conservation community to engage more directly with agriculture because it is the most significant driver of environmental change.

Madeleine Fogde explains the background to Sweden's involvement in sanitation and its links to agriculture.

Summary of discussion from e-Forum 3, following the publication of the ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook.