This publication has been designed to share IFAD’s experience with a broader public. It uses examples of instruments, processes and practices selected from IFAD’s project portfolio. The theme of IFAD’s 2001 portfolio review was the environment and natural resource management. Environment and Natural Resource Management: IFAD’s Growing Commitment draws extensively on that progress report, which was presented at the Seventy-Second Session of the IFAD Executive Board in April 2001. The portfolio review provided a wide range of examples relating to soil conservation, watershed management, deforestation, rangeland management, desertification, biodiversity conservation and environmental health. Cross-cutting themes include beneficiary and community participation, the transfer of environmentally friendly technologies, the promotion of environmental policies and the provision of rural.
