The marvels of investing in agriculture and believing in the power and potential of smallholder farmers in Azerbaijan

From IFAD social reporting blog Wed Oct 22 2014, 18:04:00

The best part of my job is when I get to visit the countries and the people who we work with and serve. This time round, I was fortunate enough to visit my first upper-middle-income country: Azerbaijan.

The World Bank estimates that 86 middle-income countries in the world account for just under half of the world's population and they are home to one-third of the people in the world.

As an upper-middle-income country, Azerbaijan boosts excellent infrastructure, which made my 270 kilometre travel to the IFAD-funded Integrated Rural Development Project in Yevlakh a pleasant "stroll".

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