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International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Overview

IFAD is an international financial institution and specialized United Nations agency based in Rome, the UN’s food and agriculture hub. Since 1978, they have provided over US$21 billion in grants and low-interest loans to projects that have reached about 491 million people. With a growing global population that will exceed 9 billion by 2050, a widening gap between rich and poor, and growing competition for resources, the major issues facing humanity cannot wait. IFAD works where poverty and hunger are deepest: in the most remote regions of developing countries and fragile situations, where few development agencies venture. They have developed a cost-effective, people-centred and partnership-oriented approach that delivers results. Small-scale agriculture is central to development model, which connects farmers and poor rural women and men to markets and services so they can grow more and earn more.

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