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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. Show less
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      • 1 month ago
      • 518 views
      Incense sticks are ubiquitous at Buddhist shrines across South East Asia, but few people realize that most are made from the bark of the Bong tree, which was recently facing extinction. Now the pre...

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      • 1 month ago
      • 239 views
      On the island of Zanzibar, the sea had always been a man's domain. But researcher Flower Ezekiel Msuya says things started to change when local women unleashed the commercial potential of seaweed.

    • Kenya: Going Against the Grain - Duration: 4 minutes, 1 second.

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      • 2 months ago
      • 280 views
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      by IFADTV
      • 2 months ago
      • 345 views
      Too often development activities meant to assist poor rural women treat them as if they were all the same, says Myrna Cunningham Kain, President of the Centre for Autonomy and Development of Indige...

    • Laos: Nutritious Entertainment - Duration: 4 minutes, 5 seconds.

      by IFADTV
      • 2 months ago
      • 646 views
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    • What does innovation mean to you? - Duration: 106 seconds.

      by IFADTV
      • 3 months ago
      • 337 views
      IFAD's team of global staff explain how innovation is critical to solving the challenges small farmers are facing in agriculture today.

    • Rwanda: Fighting poverty with equality - Duration: 4 minutes, 12 seconds.

      by IFADTV
      • 4 months ago
      • 774 views
      Rwanda is the first country in the world where women hold a parliamentary majority and new laws have given women rights to land, employment opportunities and education. Now, in the most remote part...

    • Ranjitha Puskur: Teach a woman to fish - Duration: 11 minutes.

      by IFADTV
      • 4 months ago
      • 601 views
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    • Guillermo Vila Melo: The camelid solution - Duration: 14 minutes.

      by IFADTV
      • 5 months ago
      • 296 views
      Agronomist Guillermo Vila Melo talks about his passion for camelids (alpacas and llamas) and his belief that these animals could help lift thousands of farming families across the Andean highlands ...

    • India: Cottoning On - Duration: 3 minutes, 45 seconds.

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      • 5 months ago
      • 498 views
      In India's Maharashtra state three million farmers depend on cotton. In 2014, failed harvests resulted in debt that prompted almost 1000 suicides. Now new ways of growing cotton are not only allevi...
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      • 5 years ago
      • 90,253 views
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      • 4 years ago
      • 51,107 views
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      • 14,241 views
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      • 7 years ago
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      • 4 years ago
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      • 5 years ago
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      • 5 years ago
      • 12,128 views
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      • 3 years ago
      • 11,197 views
      Fatou Danso is a farmer.... but she is also The Gambia's first female village chief. Fatou has introduced many firsts to her village. The land here was once only farmed by men. But now Fatou has di...

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      • 7 years ago
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