Concepts for Community Programs

On , let's celebrate the women around the world whose small rural businesses are boosting their economies while making high-quality food available to their communities.

Despite producing much of the food we consume, rural people often struggle to access sufficient nutritious food themselves.

With support from IFAD-funded projects, rural women are working hard to change this.

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🐄 Anticipatory action in Kenya show the value of investing in resilience, instead of waiting for disaster to strike.

In 2017, drought threatened pastoralist families in northern Kenya; acting ahead, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) invested US $90 per household to protect their herds and livelihoods. The results were striking: every dollar spent brought a direct return of nearly $3.5 – and when the avoided emergency costs were included, the benefit rose to $8.9.

📈 By protecting livestock, families avoided selling their assets, kept their dignity, and reduced the need for costly humanitarian aid.

🌍 This is what funding resilience looks like in practice — early action that saves lives and money. Because .

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