World leaders call for innovative solutions and urgent financing to address rural poverty in a warming world at IFAD’s global meeting
World leaders have called for urgent and innovative investments to help rural communities in the world’s poorest countries adapt to climate change.
Speaking at the opening of the annual Governing Council meeting attended by 177 Member States of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), leaders specifically highlighted the vulnerability of small-scale farmers to severe weather events, like the storms that devastated Madagascar in recent weeks killing at least 121 people and destroying more than 176,000 hectares of land.