IFAD looks beyond US aid, and toward catalytic solutions
Earlier this year, U.S. President Donald Trump proposed what critics called “draconian cuts” to his country’s foreign affairs spending. That included zeroing out support to the Rome-based IFAD, a specialized United Nations agency that supports small-scale farmers, pastoralists, and entrepreneurs in some of the poorest parts of the world. But despite the potential loss of the International Fund for Agricultural […]
Remittances can transform lives: Let’s put them to work
Migration is not new, nor often even a choice. For millions of people today, the decision to leave home has become a necessity – a legitimate response to economic crisis, armed conflict or increasingly frequent and intense climate disasters. Or, as is too often the case, a combination of all these factors. The presence of migrant workers is often […]