37th CFS Plenary Session, 17-22 October 2011, Rome
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Rome-Kigali, 29 September 2011 – A US$39.8 million loan and grant from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to the Republic of Rwanda will help to improve the livelihoods of poor smallholder producers and increase economic growth in partnership with private operators, the UN rural poverty agency has announced.
The loan and grant agreements for the Project for Rural Income through Exports (PRICE) and the Support Project for the Strategic Plan for the Transformation of Agriculture (PAPSTA) were signed today in Kigali by John Rwangombwa, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning of the Republic of Rwanda, and Yukiko Omura, Vice-President of IFAD.
24 August 2011 – A shortage of funds has forced the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to halve its food rations for tens of thousands of Congolese refugees in Rwanda beginning on 1 September.
“This is a very difficult decision, but we currently do not have sufficient funds to provide the full recommended daily allowance of 2,100 kilocalories to more than 54,000 Congolese refugees in Rwanda,” said Abdoulaye Balde, WFP representative in Rwanda.
June 23, 2010—In Rwanda, one of the world’s most densely populated landlocked countries, farmers face an uphill battle – literally – to get the best they can from the soil.
Land in Rwanda is scarce. But the major problem confronting those who work the land is that almost 90% of arable land is on hillsides. Torrential rain on more than half of the slopes causes erosion and subsequent flooding and silting in the valleys beneath. Erosion costs the country 1.4 million tons of fertile soil each year.
Press Release No:2010/327/AFR
WASHINGTON, March 31, 2010 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on March 30, 2010 approved a total amount of US$115.6 million from the International Development Association (IDA), including US$29.5 million from the Crisis Response Window (CRW), to assist the Government of Rwanda with implementing key policy actions outlined in its Economic Development Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS). Given Rwanda’s status as a blend country, US$15.2 million of the CRW funds is a grant and US$14.3 million is a credit.
These funds have been disbursed as part of a series of the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction Strategy operations for Rwanda launched in 2002.
The spike in food prices of last year (2008) underscored what experts have been telling us for many years: the world's food systems are in crisis
