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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD; French: Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA)) is an international financial institution and a specialised agency of the United Nations that works to address poverty and hunger in rural areas of developing countries.
At the International Fund for Agricultural Development, we envision vibrant, inclusive and sustainable rural communities, where people live free from poverty and hunger. The best way to achieve this is by investing in small scale rural producers.
IFAD is the world’s fund for transforming agriculture, rural economies and food systems. Explore more. Simply put, IFAD invests in rural people. We do this by financing programmes, measuring results, innovating and working with rural people themselves.
IFAD may also assist governments in redefining the role and the core functions of public-sector institutions for agriculture and rural development and promote an environment of learning through...
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Nations (UN) specialized agency that supports increased food production in poor communities. Partly in response to severe famines in the southern Sahara in the early 1970s, the 1974 World Food Conference adopted a resolution that.
IFAD recognizes that it is developing countries that are hardest hit by the current, compounded crises and that global economic recovery necessitates a longer-term perspective and investment in...
IFAD supports the ongoing UN reform process, which the organization sees as a constructive initiative that will enhance the capacity of the UN system to support countries to make progress...
