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By 2050, farmers will need to grow 60% more food for the 9.5 billion people that will be on the planet. But with scarce resources and changing weather, how will they do it? Watch their stories, hear their challenges, witness the changes.
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In rural India, the Courage Brigade helps women tackle a range of issues affecting their lives from sanitation to violence. In Jordan, family farmers have boosted their resilience by attending trai...
It's been more than a decade since Hurricane Ivan swept through the Caribbean island Grenada - but agricultural production is still half of what it used to be. Now a government project is helping f...
The Waroani Women's Association, an indigenous group of women from the Ecuadorian Amazon, are now entrepreneurs thanks to the Corridor Central project, financed by IFAD and implemented by the Ecuad...
Vietnam's Mekong Delta is one of the world's most endangered places due to sea level rise caused by climate change. It's also one of the most intensively cultivated areas in Asia. Can farmers adapt...
How can software help the Cambodian Government become a major global rice exporter by 2015? Take a look at how IFAD and Intel have joined forces to bring expert information about seeds, fertilisers...
Small island developing states share some unique challenges and opportunities. This video, created to screen at the International Conference of Small Island Developing States on 1 September 2014, l...
An IFAD-supported project in China's Guangxi province encourages poor farmers to produce their own biogas as a means of reducing poverty while improving local environmental conditions
August 27, 2011 was the 20th Anniversary of Europe's poorest country, Moldova. It's been 20 years since the fall of the Soviet Union, yet Moldova continues to struggle economically generating 30 pe...
The Pacific islands of Kiribati were among the last places to be colonized by humans. But now, because of rising sea levels, they may be among the first to be abandoned. Should Kiribati President A...
Food Who Pays the Price? raises important questions about who produces the food we eat and how. Urbanization, climate change, changing diets in emerging economies and the impact of supermarkets ar...
Eighty per cent of Bangladesh lies on a floodplain less than 5 metres above sea level. As sea levels rise and seasonal storms become more severe, millions of farmers living along the country's sout...
Keeping young people interested in farming and agriculture is paramount to meeting future global food needs, according to the Rural Poverty Report 2011 prepared by the International Fund for Agricu...