IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development [to 26 March 2016]
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22 March 2016
UN agency to provide $51 million to reduce poverty for vulnerable tribal groups in India
Rome, 22 March 2016 – The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the government of India signed a financial agreement recently that will aim to reduce poverty and improve livelihoods and food and nutrition security for over 62,000 rural households in the country’s central eastern region.
IFAD is providing a US $51.2 million loan towards the $130 million Odisha Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups Empowerment and Livelihoods Improvement Programme. It will focus on reducing poverty and improving living conditions for some of the most vulnerable tribal groups in Odisha’s heavily forested Eastern Ghats and Northern Plateau regions…
21 March 2016
UN urges stronger, coordinated international response to address El Niño impacts