- Bolstering the opportunities that allow rural people in developing countries to remain at home is a critical component of any plan to tackle the contemporary migration crisis, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today. "A necessary first step is to address the factors that lead to…
- World Bank’s Global Program on Forced Displacement (GPFD) has issued a call for ideas to improve development response for refugees and internally displaced persons. Proposals are currently being accepted innovative and transformational ideas that can improve the development response to forced…
- A YPARD Delegation of young professionals from the southern and northern mediterranean region was invited by the GFAR to participate to the 4th Mediterranean Congress 2015: Rural Communities, No Longer Left Behind, in Milan, co-organized by the Fondation du Dialogue Sud-Nord Méditerranée. 17 young…
- In 2010, FAO highlighted the dramatic impact of protracted crises on food security and nutrition in 22 countries. West Asia and Africa have the majority of countries suffering from such crises, most heavily affecting the poor in rural areas and in particular vulnerable women and children…
- Good news from Iraq - this newsletter highlights the progress of the HSAD initiative and its efforts to raise the productivity and incomes of Iraq's smallholder farmers. HSAD - or Harmonized Support for Agricultural Development - is a partnership between ICARDA and Iraq's Ministry of Agriculture…
- Side Event at the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week 15 July 2013 Subtheme: Rebuilding AR4D capacities to achieved sustainable food security Objectives of the Side Event Awareness raising of the consultative process around the Committee on World Food…