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Ilaria Firmian
@Iliaria
Rural development practitioner, working on Natural Resources Management, Climate Change, Environmental and Social issues.
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IFAD’s community-driven approach means indigenous peoples across the 🌍 are empowered to lead their own development — and to realise their own dreams.
Free, prior and informed consent is key to this process.
#WeAreIndigenous
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Over generations, indigenous peoples have protected the biodiversity of their homes. They use language in a powerful way to describe how they interact with the natural environment. Discover five unique words and concepts.
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“NePAAA will be a platform to bring together stakeholders to foster collaboration & to provide policy options to the ASEAN members for supporting smallholders and agri food systems transformation”. Abdelkarim Sma, Lead Regional Economist
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Despite being the 🌎's largest producer of #pulses, 🇮🇳 has to rely on imports from #Myanmar & elsewhere.
A new policy brief & examines #India's pulse consumption, production & trade policies.
Read it here 👉 bit.ly/IFPRIpulses
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Making the right decisions about managing natural resources isn’t always easy. Now, GIS technology is helping communities in rural Nepal monitor and preserve the forests fed by local watersheds.
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Live from Addis Ababa! We’re now presenting latest literature findings & impacts on the ground about gender, youth, nutrition and climate change.
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Within , we identify community groups with both men and women, include women in learning activities, promote #genderinclusive technologies and practices, and encourage and strengthen inclusive #farmercooperatives ~ Stephen Muwaya bit.ly/2lA4OjZ #UNCCDCOP14
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We support #womenled CBOs in #Uganda in the prevention of #landdegradation. The use of the #landscapeapproach in has brought more men to help women work on farms ~ Stephen Muwaya bit.ly/2lA4OjZ #UNCCDCOP14 #gender
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Today at #COP14
Fostering an integrated approach for sustainable land management in sub-Saharan Africa
➡️bit.ly/2lvje5b
#UNCCDCOP14
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#Drylands are arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, and are home to over 2 billion people
They are key to global food and nutrition security for the whole planet. 44% of the world’s cultivated systems are located in drylands.
➡️bit.ly/2lPbNWp
#UNCCDCOP14
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Resting land, limiting grazing, reseeding, planting shrubs, promoting indigenous species, improved irrigation and soil banks helps reclaim land lost to desertification and drought.
#UNCCDCOP14 🌿🌴🎍🌱
➡️bit.ly/IFADCOP14
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We need to start measuring impact of current adaptation efforts if we are to secure adequate finance for #adaptationfutures2018
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"Partnership is critical- between researchers, innovators, business, academics and government... crucial if we are to move from global knowledge to local solutions" Patrick Child #adaptationfutures2018 we need #dialogue4solutions
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Sophia Huyer, : Social & #gender inequalities affect the ways in which men and women respond to #climatechange and the support women farmers need to adapt to #climatechange. #COP23 #AgAdvantage
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Solutions are context-specific. We need to think about what works, where and why. We need farmer-led approaches to find the right solutions. @die_gdi #COP23 #AgAdvantage
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"We still have significant gender gap in #agriculture. I hope it wont take 100 years. We need to make sure it doesn't take that long. We don't have that long." Sophia Huyer #AgAdvantage #COP23
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Do you have questions to the speakers? Ask using #agadvantage hashtag. #cop23
Follow live: bit.ly/AgAdvantageLIVE
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Farming is not a noble word; many times it's associated with poverty. We need to change the perception of being a farmer, we need to see the nobility in farming, otherwise we won't see change. @EC_Commission
#AgAdvantage #COP23
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"After 6 years of discussions at #SBSTA, yesterday there was decision on #agriculture. It's a fantastic outcome." @bcampbell_CGIAR #AgAdvantage #COP23
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#AgAdvantage @bcampbell_CGIAR explains what is the gender advantage in agriculture and shows the #IFAD How to do Note being developed
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#AgAdvantage #IFAD Astralaga 'By empowering women we ensure there are better nutrition outcomes for their families' @IFADnews
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#AgAdvantage Margarita Astralaga presenting the landscape of climate finance. But how much of this goes into resilience of the rural sector?@IFADnews
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#AgAdvantage Michael Hailu '#IFAD has always been at the forefront of bringing agriculture to smallholder farmers' @IFADnews
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"Transformative research is putting agriculture in the spotlight on the climate change agenda." Stefan Schmitz #AgAdvantage #COP23
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Happening NOW at #COP23: discussion on transforming agriculture for the future: action & way forward bit.ly/AgAdvantageLIVE #AgAdvantage
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Public-private partnership is cornerstone of agricultural transformation. @bcampbell_CGIAR #AgAdvantage #COP23
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How do we scale up? We need multistakeholder collaboration among private sector, NGOs and farmer organizations. #COP23 #AgAdvantage
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Margarita Astralaga: IFAD's ASAP programmis is largest source of climate finance for smallholders (USD 300 million). "We want to make sure private sector is part of the work we do." @IFADnews #AgAdvantage #COP23
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#DCDays17 @IFADnews the donor community has to better learn from past project experiences, listening to local voices & not leaving women out of the consultations
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Here's more information on the Least Developed Countries Universities Consortium on Climate Change () --> icccad.net/luccc/ #DCDays17
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D&C days was started by @SaleemulHuq @iied 14 years ago. Saleem outlines his latest big initiative - linking Universities in LDCs to work on share resilience - including knowledge support to the global north from experts in the global south. #DCDays17
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Ruth Spenser, Antigua reminds everyone at #dcdays17 that we have to be the change, it starts with us and we need to go home and work in partnership and make a difference. Let’s be committed and make it happen.
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Watch discuss the different atmosphere between the Bonn and Bula zones at #COP23 in more detail --> youtube.com/watch?v=1KldL0 #DCdays17
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