For over two years the Resilient Food Systems programme has been supporting #WomenFarmers just like Esther Wandia, a single mother of four who has quadrupled her income by growing and selling avocados. 🌱 Read Esther's story: ow.ly/Dc4Y50yEE0l #GenerationEquality #IWD2020

The Resilient Food Systems programme is working in 12 African countries to: 🌱 Restore degraded land 🌽 Increase agricultural productivity 👩‍🌾 Improve farmer incomes Learn more in the new #RFS2019 Annual Report: resilientfoodsystems.co/annualreport Global Environment Facility (GEF) International Fund for Agricultural Development #Partnerships4Planet

Learn how the Resilient Food Systems programme is enhancing long-term #sustainability and #resilience for #foodsecurity in sub-Saharan Africa. The #RFS2019 Annual Report is here! 👉 resilientfoodsystems.co/annualreport Global Environment Facility (GEF) International Fund for Agricultural Development #Partnerships4Planet #TimeforAction #InvestInRuralPeople

Meet Mfembi Ndlangamandla. Since being trained in #ConservationAgriculture by the RFS eSwatini project, he has become a lead farmer in his community, helping other farmers adopt successful CA approaches. Read Mfembi's full story 👉 resilientfoodsystems.co/news/in-eswati… @EswadeSmlp International Fund for Agricultural Development

RFS has been working with Ethiopian communities to protect their crops and livelihoods from the dual threat of #desertlocusts and #COVID19. In the face of numerous obstacles these communities have demonstrated extraordinary resilience. Read more: ow.ly/wYn450Cc7IG

Since 2018 gender teams in Ethiopia have reached over 4,200 households through community conversation meetings. Through these meetings, RFS is able to develop more positive synergies between sustainable natural resource management and #genderequality: ow.ly/kWiJ50CdCZl

I am humbled and honoured to be elected for a second term as IFAD’s president. My first priority will be the consolidation of the reforms made over the past four years so that IFAD’s trajectory toward doubling its impact by 2030 becomes irreversible.

Toute ma gratitude à vous toutes et tous pour ces témoignages poignants faisant suite à ma réélection à la tête du FIDA- God bless

Water collection and erosion control supported by the RFS #Kenya project, Upper Tana-Nairobi #WaterFund, implemented by The Nature Conservancy, took Irene Mumiria's farm in Kenya from little profit to a successful operation. Learn more about Irene's story: youtube.com/watch?v=f-GBzU…

💧In Africa, women bear the primary responsibility for collecting water from sources often miles from their home. The RFS Kenya project works w/ households to reduce this burden. Learn more about The Nature Conservancy's work in the Upper Tana watershed: bit.ly/2OLaEO9

RFS is proud to be participating in Food and Agriculture Organization 's “Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management” initiative. 4 RFS projects will be developing videos to document the challenges communities face and the ways in which they are adapting. More info: ow.ly/jmXH50DDEr9

📢Upcoming event: TOMORROW Food and Agriculture Organization is hosting the Opening Ceremony of the International Day of Forests #IDF2021! 🗓️19 March 2021, 11-12h (CET) Register here 👉 fao.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🌱 Helping farmers give back to the soil 🌱 By promoting #NatureBasedSolutions, Resilient Food Systems has helped smallholder farming communities restore +150,000 ha of degraded land. Learn more in the new #RFS2020 Annual Report: bit.ly/3qREwG4 Global Environment Facility (GEF) International Fund for Agricultural Development

We are proud of RFS achievements lead to the transformation change in food systems in SSA

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) -funded Resilient Food Systems programme has helped +1.4 million beneficiaries adopt sustainable approaches for improving #foodsecurity. #InvestInRuralPeople. Learn more in the new #RFS2020 Annual Report: bit.ly/3qREwG4

An excellent appointment to Burundi. Congratulations and good luck Damien Mama

We are still atwitter with the exciting #gender insights we gained last week! To learn more about how we can, will and do strive towards gender-responsiveness in #ResilientFoodSystems, check out the following Guidance Note prepared for just this purpose! …owledgecentre.resilientfoodsystems.co/assets/resourc…

You are at UNCCD COP15 in Abidjan , join us in Meeting room 11 on Saturday 14 from 11:30 to 13:30. Interesting side event hold by #RFS

Join in Naivasha (Kenya) from 6-8 June 2023 for the final workshop of #Gef funded and #IFAD led #RFS programme.

Rural communities in #Tanzania best understand the complex dynamics between people and land The RFS project has been working alongside them to create participatory land use plans 🗺️ resilientfoodsystems.co/news/participa…