July 6, 2025, was celebrated as World Rural Development Day. Established by United Nations (UN) General Assembly proclamation on September 6, 2024, it was to highlight the importance of rural ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The World Food Programme said Friday it is suspending food and nutritional assistance across crisis-hit West and Central African countries as a result of U.S. aid cuts, which are ...

FAO Investment Days 2025 focuses on more and better agrifood jobs: Rome: Boosting investments in agrifood systems is a powerful lever to im ...

A new report by the U.N. AIDS agency says the sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding has caused a “systemic shock” to the global ...

The International Criminal Court believes war crimes and crimes against humanity are continuing in Sudan’s vast western ...

Through their multifaceted interventions — technology dissemination, capacity building, market integration, financial ...

Rome - Boosting investments in agrifood systems is a powerful lever to improve lives and can address the "alarming gap" of ...

IFAD initiates a program worth $358.26 million to bolster dairy sector in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda • The program, called DaIMA, aims to strengthen the resilience of dairy systems, with a ...

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) signed an agreement for a US$150 ...

Other problematic farming practices included turning or digging up soils after every planting season, leaving the soil bare over prolonged periods making it lose moisture easily, and therefore, ...