UN Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028) – Global Action Plan
Michelle Tang2023-06-24T15:09:05+02:00The UN Decade of Family Farming is a joint effort by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the UN and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), both of whom are members of the Global Donor Platform for
2019 Conference on Land Policy in Africa: Securing Effective Land Tenure Necessary for Africa’s Development
Michelle Tang2022-08-26T17:11:36+02:00“Effective land governance and management is…indispensable to efforts to promote inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic development in support of Africa’s structural transformation,” such as the continent’s 50-year development plan, Agenda 2063, said Stephen Karingi, Director of the Regional Integration, Infrastructure
Capitalizing and Disseminating Impact of VGGT Implementation in Africa
Michelle Tang2022-08-26T17:14:00+02:00Experiences in implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGTs) from several African countries were shared during a side event held by the Food
Complexities and Progress in Securing Land Tenure for Women and Marginalized Groups in Africa
Michelle Tang2022-08-26T17:15:52+02:00The 2019 Conference on Land Policy in Africa’s plenary session, “Securing Land Tenure for Women and Other Marginalized Groups”, recognized that sustainable development in Africa cannot be achieved without ensuring the context based implementation of secure land tenure for
A Big “YES” to Youth Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Michelle Tang2022-08-26T17:21:10+02:00On 20 November, the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia hosted the second edition of The Youth Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Forum (YES! Forum). The event built upon the first edition of the YES! Forum held in Dakar in 2018
Creating Employment Opportunities for Rural Youth: Building on IFAD’s 2019 Rural Development Report
Michelle Tang2022-08-26T17:25:35+02:00The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) organised a joint event on 21 October in Berlin to build on IFAD’s 2019 Rural Development Report - Creating employment opportunities
A Digital Council to Solve the World’s Food Problems
Michelle Tang2022-08-29T14:17:34+02:00By 2050 we will have to feed more than two billion more people, and that with resources becoming scarcer. The Digitisation in agriculture has a high potential to overcome these enormous challenges and hence has arrived on the international agenda.
Rural Youth – A Theme Resonating Well at CFS46
Michelle Tang2022-09-26T10:49:51+02:00The topic of rural youth was prominently featured this year at CFS 46 with a large number of youth delegates engaged in different side events and participating in different plenary sessions during the week.
