Today we have made an important change to the permissions level in IFADAsia - instead of it being a closed, private site, by default all content will now be visible to be read by anyone visiting sites within the network, without the need to first register and log in. This is in response to many of our members, who have told us that the barrier of a registration and log in page was putting...
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   Levelling off the participants of the 6th Knowledge and Learning Market of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) was the session on demystifying value chains towards a market-driven IFAD impact pathway. Majority of the KLM6 participants were the implementers of IFAD-funded grant and investment programs with the government of the Philippines.  ...
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An IFAD  grant project in India, which comes to an end in December, has some ideas and resources that could be useful for other projects.     "Scaling up Micro-Irrigation Systems" (SCAMPIS) has also been implemented in Guatemala and Madagascar, and is funded by the Coopernic Sustainability Fund (Coopernic is an alliance of European retailers).   In India...
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Interview with a women beneficiary of Poultry project funded by IFAD at Hesarak village, Balkh district, of Balkh province This interview was conducted during my field visit to the project site. The interview will reveals some of the immediate as well as long terms impacts of the project over the lives of the women-mostly widowed. This interview was conducted with one of the...
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Improving the nutritional status of poor rural households particularly women and children through providing them   with the skills, knowledge and initial inputs they require in order to engage in profitable dairy goat production is the core objective of the dairy goat project which is implemented in selected districts of Nangarhar and Baghlan provinces.  One of the components of...
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