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IFAD is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was establish in 1977 with it headquarters in Rome with the with a mandate to combat rural hunger and poverty in development countries. The Fund's target groups are the poorest of the world's people.

In fulfilling this objective the Fund provides loans to Developing Member States on highly concessional, intermediate and ordinary terms for approved projects and programmes, primarily for projects and programmes specifically designed to introduce, expand or improve food production systems and to strengthen related policies and institutions within the framework of national priorities and strategies.

Co-Chair of Coalition Council
Co-Chair of Assembly of Members 2003-2005; 2005-2007
Member of the International Land Coalition 2003
Member of the Coalition Council 2003-05; 2005-07

Community Empowerment Facility - Member of Project Advisory Committee (PAC)

Womens' Access

Joint Publication (FAO/IFAD/ILC) - Rural Women's Access to Land and Property in Selected Countires - Progress Towards Achieving the Aims of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Secure access to land, water and other natural resources: the essentials of fighting rural poverty.

By Lennart Båge, President, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), published in the Commonwealth Ministers reference book 2007

Workshop: Agriculture for development, IFAD June 8 2007. Power Point Presentation by Dr. Berdegué

IFAD's Statement to the ILC Latin America Regional Meeting 2007

"Pro-Poor Land policy guidelines for Africa" by Dr Joan Kagwanja
UN Economic Commission for Africa.
27 November 2007

 

IFAD's mission statement is "Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty".

IFAD has focuses exclusively on rural poverty reduction, working with poor rural populations in developing countries to eliminate poverty, hunger and malnutrition; raise productivity and incomes; and improve the quality of their lives.

IFADs projects in 115 countries and territories, fall into the following categories:

• agricultural development
• financial services
• rural infrastructure
• livestock
• fisheries
• capacity-and institution-building
• storage/food-processing/marketing
• research/extension/training
• small and medium scale enterprise development

Small farmers, artisanal fishermen, rural poor women, landless workers, rural artisans, nomadic herdsmen and indigenous populations, and across groups, women.

To increase food production, raise incomes, improve health, nutrition, education standards and general well-being on a sustainable basis.