The report highlights the potential of AI in assisting smallholder farmers to make better decisions with limited resources through tailored agricultural advisory services, localized information, and decision-making support. To amplify AI’s impact, it also emphasizes the need for support for local languages, solutions based on local data, and investment in digital capacity and access.
Since joining the Board, Alessandra Roversi has championed the Platform's work around AI and data while bringing a strong focus on agrifood systems and nutrition. Here, she shares Switzerland's priorities for resilient local food systems, the importance of trusted data and evidence, and how emerging technologies can help address hunger and malnutrition.
Young people face numerous risks across agrifood systems. How can we better support them and co-create decent work opportunities? Read our latest webinar blog to explore how the global community is empowering young people as co-creators of sustainable development. Discover the key messages, insights, and recommendations from the discussion.
The report presents 15 opportunity crops, highlighting their potential to contribute to more diverse and resilient food systems. It also emphasizes the need for greater investment in research, seed systems, processing infrastructure, and public awareness of these crops to expand their use and unlock their potential.
The report emphasizes the urgent need for sustainable food system transformation, and the lack of finance. It provides an overview on how climate financing could mitigate and transform food system, strengthening small scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous People, and those who are most vulnerable to climate change.
In this interview, Marlynne Hopper—Head a.i. of the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) Secretariat, hosted by the World Trade Organization—shares insights on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) capacity, innovative financing, and the partnerships that make safe trade and resilient agrifood systems possible.
The report emphasizes the urgent need for sustainable food system transformation, and the lack of finance. It provides an overview on how climate financing could mitigate and transform food system, strengthening small scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous People, and those who are most vulnerable to climate change.
The report emphasizes the urgent need for sustainable food system transformation, and the lack of finance. It provides an overview on how climate financing could mitigate and transform food system, strengthening small scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous People, and those who are most vulnerable to climate change.
As IFAD enters a new replenishment cycle and development actors navigate an increasingly fragmented global landscape, partnership and strategic coherence have never been more essential. Max Von Bonsdorff, IFAD’s Chief Partnership Officer, reflects on the institution’s strategic direction, the evolving role of the Donor Platform, and the kind of leadership needed to drive impact in the decade ahead.
The report emphasizes the urgent need for sustainable food system transformation, and the lack of finance. It provides an overview on how climate financing could mitigate and transform food system, strengthening small scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous People, and those who are most vulnerable to climate change.
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