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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 Indonesia, 35% of fish and seafood is lost or wasted before it is consumed due to the long distances that separate small producers from markets. A new project gives them access to the technology...
In Indonesia, 35% of fish and seafood is lost or wasted before it is consumed due to the long distances that separate small producers from markets. With access to technology and know-how, fish can ...
The money migrants send home helps families put food on the table, send their children to school and support economic development and job creation, thus helping to achieve the SDGs "One Family at a...
In eastern Kenya, lack of rain is causing the failure of staple crops like maize and many families do not have enough to eat. Changing crops from maize to drought-tolerant sorghum may be the key to...
In response to a changing climate, an SMS texting service is helping farmers in Rwanda predict the weather and know when to plant and harvest their crops.
Demand for fish in Asia has been rising steadily. To tap into this lucrative market, fish poachers in Indonesia have been using more destructive methods, including coral-destroying poisons and expl...
Demand for fish in Asia has been rising steadily. To tap into this lucrative market, fish poachers in Indonesia have been using more destructive methods, including coral-destroying poisons and expl...
In areas of Guatemala which are chronically affected by droughts, IFAD-supported irrigation schemes and practices make farmland four times more productive.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For most of their lives, every one of the 1200 fishermen in this village in the south of India described themselves as slaves. They were in debt to money-lenders and a corrupt system ensured that t...