Click subscribe to keep up to date with the challenges faced by the people who grow our food.
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
In areas of Guatemala which are chronically affected by droughts, IFAD-supported irrigation schemes and practices make farmland four times more productive.
By transforming foods such as millets and bananas into tasty pancakes drizzled with honey, Indian food enthusiast Rahul Antao aims to get children more engaged in agriculture. He argues that there ...
The Sustainable Development Goals hold up the promise of a radically different and better future that leaves no one behind. How can that promise be realized by 2030?
Alpha Sennon, Founder of WHYFARM in Trinidad and Tobago, describes how he created food and nutrition superheroes AGRIman and PhotosyntheSISTA to teach young people that farming can be cool.
In this episode of Recipes for Change, Mozambican chef Rogério Matusse travels to drought-affected areas of his country to examine how climate-smart farming techniques are preserving traditional cr...
IFAD is implementing the African Postal Financial Services Initiative in Madagascar, Benin, Senegal and Ghana, facilitating the transfer of migrants’ remittances to their families in rural areas, r...
To celebrate World Environment Day 2016, IFAD partnered with Italian celebrity chef, Carlo Cracco, to bring attention to the impact that climate change is having on rice production in Cambodia.
The adoption of a solar-powered water pump was only the first of a series of innovations which are helping these farmers in South East Senegal adapt to the water scarcity caused by the changing cli...
The inclusion of women in decision-making on the remote pacific island of Hunga, Kingdom of Tonga, leads to the development of large-scale infrastructure projects, such as a new wharf and paved roa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Strengthening the capabilities of rural people to take advantage of opportunities in the rural non-farm economy is essential according to the Rural Poverty Report 2011, prepared by the Internationa...
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...
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...
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...
One billion. That's the number of hungry people worldwide. The effects are heartbreaking. The causes myriad. Solutions are needed now to feed future generations. In this series, the UN 's three foo...
Ghana currently spends over $1 billion on food imports, making it highly susceptible to price hikes. One way to prevent this, is to invest in local entrepreneurs like Janet Gyimah-Kessie. She has a...
After 10 years of civil war, Burundians are ready for lasting peace. This IFAD documentary, co-produced with the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) for broadcast on BBC World, follows the s...
Every year, one and half million people leave The Philippines to find jobs overseas. They send home more than US$20 billion a year. But little of that money is saved or invested. In Mabini - known ...