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📢 IFAD & Asian Development Bank are joining forces to scale up impact across #Asia & the #Pacific! 🤝 With a 3-year plan focused on nutrition-sensitive investments, biodiversity & private sector engagement, they aim to unlock rural potential by empowering rural communities. 🌾 Read more ⬇️

The International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Asian Development Bank have agreed to look for more opportunities to finance projects together to expand their impact in fighting #poverty, #foodinsecurity, and #climatechange across the #Asia and the #Pacific region. More here ➡️shorturl.at/noLNz UN Philippines


Representatives from both institutions met earlier this week at the Asian Development Bank headquarters in #Manila to define a more strategic approach in their longstanding partnership over the next three years. UN Philippines

Rural #MSMEs are the heart of our food systems, but they’re held back by a lack of investment. In the Indian state of #Mizoram, International Fund for Agricultural Development is stepping in to support rural entrepreneurs grow, thrive and feed their communities.🌾 Read the full story here➡️shorturl.at/nKy02


#ICYMI Replugging this story with details of International Fund for Agricultural Development and Asian Development Bank's combined priorities to fight poverty in the Asia and Pacific region. 👇


🪲 Beetles fight #malnutrition in #Laos! With rice-heavy diets, 1/3 of kids under 5 face stunting. But a transformative International Fund for Agricultural Development-funded project is changing that: since 2020, over 22,000 people in northern Laos have benefited from #nutrition trainings 👇

#Nepal Deputy Prime Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel kickstarted a new programme supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Nepal Government that will help over a quarter million people living on small-scale farms transition towards #agroecological farming. 👉shorturl.at/Tj0vX



Guess what? A family board game developed in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development- Global Agriculture & Food Security Program funded project in #Laos teaches farmers and their families agricultural & nutritional practices in a simple, interactive way. You can download the game here 👇shorturl.at/eAJEv


The Economic Transformation Initiative in #GilgitBaltistan, an International Fund for Agricultural Development -funded project, focuses on increasing #agricultural production, and introducing high-value cash #crops and linking #farmers to local #markets. Watch🌿👇


On #InternationalRuralDevelopmentDay, we bring to you the story of how communities in India's #Mizoram now practice livestock & #alternatefarming to supplement their incomes & grow high-value crops, thanks to an International Fund for Agricultural Development-funded initiative. Watch 👩🌾👇 United Nations in India CM Office Mizoram


An International Fund for Agricultural Development-supported initiative in #Laos has left a family better fed. The programme linked the family with a cardamom production group, allowing them to sell their crops at a higher price. Read their story and learn about more such initiatives here 👭➡️ shorturl.at/Y9dk9


