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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.
IFAD's History. IFAD is the world’s fund for transforming agriculture, rural economies and food systems. Simply put, IFAD invests in rural people. We do this by financing programmes, measuring results, innovating and working with rural people themselves.
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.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is the first international institution established exclusively to provide additional resources for agricultural and rural development in developing countries and to channel those resources to the poorest rural populations in Africa, Near East and North Africa, Asia, and Latin America ...
Sharing a vision of how to achieve a world without hunger and poverty, the United States and IFAD have been working together since IFAD’s inception 40 years ago. Consistent with its longstanding leadership role, the United States holds the largest voting share among IFAD Member States, with 7 per cent.
A United Nations specialized agency created in 1977, IFAD is an innovative partnership between members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
The vision of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for the post-2015 rural world is one in which rural extreme poverty is eliminated through inclusive and sustainable agriculture and rural development, and in which poor rural people and communities, including those who live in remote areas, are empowered to build prosperous...
