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Kanayo F. Nwanze

Kanayo F. Nwanze is President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency based in Rome, Italy.


Commentaries by Kanayo F. Nwanze

  • Newsart for Harnessing the Remittance Boom

    Harnessing the Remittance Boom

    ROME – For more than a decade, Asia’s economies have been on the move – and so have its people. The scale of migration from rural to urban a…

  • Newsart for Small Farms’ Large Benefits

    Small Farms’ Large Benefits

    ROME – As drought becomes increasingly common, farmers worldwide are struggling to maintain crop yields. In the United States, farmers are e…

  • Newsart for Climate-Smart Smallholders

    Climate-Smart Smallholders

    KIGALI – Until the world’s small farmers adopt a series of necessary changes, climate talks such as the United Nations Rio+20 Summit, which …

  • Newsart for The Road to Food Security

    The Road to Food Security

    ROME – Recently, I was on a road in the Southern Choma District of Zambia to meet with Rosemary Pisani, a smallholder farmer and mother of e…

  • Newsart for Change Africa from Within

    Change Africa from Within

    ROME – A severe food crisis currently threatens southern Sudan. In East Africa, where millions of people already are dependent on food aid, …

  • Newsart for Rebuilding Haiti From Davos

    Rebuilding Haiti From Davos

    ROME – When the captains of business and industry meet in Davos for the World Economic Forum this month, the devastation caused by the rece…

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  • Small Farms’ Large Benefits

    Jonathan Lam: Gamesmith94134: Small Farms’ Large Benefits Small farm’s large benefits really provides another system that build unemployment within to sustain the balances on human resources and productivity i…