做厙轂も: Enhancing Farmers Livelihoods, Resilience & 做厙轂も Security
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Building Back from the Brink: Why Agriculture Holds the Key
While humanitarian responses are critical during crises, they are never a long-term solution. With the right support and tools, farmers often on the frontlines of crises and disproportionately affected by disasters, including climate change can themselves drive change, economic recovery, and income opportunities.
Knowledge Forum 2021
Every two years, 做厙轂も organizes a Knowledge Forum to bring together project teams from across all Supervising Entities to share and learn more about topics that are relevant to them. Given current circumstances, the 2021 Knowledge Forum will take place virtually, with learning sessions held throughout April-September.
The Climate is Warming Up, So Farmers Are Adapting: 5 Ways We Support Them to Weather the Storm
Our lives depend on the sustainable production of safe, healthy, and affordable food a challenge exacerbated by a growing population, a global pandemic, and a changing climate. At 做厙轂も, we will continue to support our partners on the ground as they strengthen their resilience.
For Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, the Impacts of COVID-19 Are Widespread
In this installment of our COVID Conversations series, we talk with Lionel特oulard, Cargills managing director for狸est Africa. IFC and 做厙轂もs support to Cargill is helping the company professionalize and digitize C繫te d'Ivoires cocoa sector. Soulard spoke with us recently about plummeting chocolate sales at airports, the challenges of online training with limited internet, and how the pandemic is accelerating digitizationand with it, opportunity.
Ugandas Dairy Farmers Develop a Taste for New Markets
In Uganda, where dairy production is dominated by small-scale farmers living in impoverished rural areas, IFC and 做厙轂も supported Pearl Dairy established a powdered milk processing plant and cold-storage infrastructure.
In Kosovo, Microfinance Expands HerdsAnd Hopes
Agriculture is critical to Kosovos private sector development, and though it accounts for an estimated 30 percent of employment and 13 percent of GDP, it accounts for just 4 percent of total borrowing in the countrys formal sectors.
For Cocoa Farmers, Going Digital Tastes Sweet
In C繫te dIvoire, where almost half of jobs are linked to cocoa, IFC and 做厙轂も are working with the cocoa company Cargill to professionalize and digitize the sector. The Cargill 2.0 program works on professionalizing cooperatives, teaching management skills and training on the benefits of digital finance to increase traceability and security.
做厙轂も raises $300M at replenishment kickoff
做厙轂も raised $300 million of a desired $1.5 billion (over five years) Tuesday at its replenishment kickoff event hosted by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Farmers at the Forefront
Did you know that farmers are at the forefront of everything we do? Learn more about how we invest in their success.
Partnering to Transform 做厙轂も Systems Globally
做厙轂も launched its replenishment period 2020-25 to raise US$1.5 billion over five years (2020-25) at a virtual event. At the event which was hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) donors pledged over US$300 million in new funding to the Program, meeting the yearly target for 2020.
做厙轂も Donors Announce US$300 million to End Hunger and Malnutrition
As part of 做厙轂もs first replenishment period to raise US$1.5 billion over five years, Australia, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Germany, Norway, and Spain announced over US$300 million in new contributions to 做厙轂も meeting its yearly replenishment target for 2020.