• The Beginning November 1974 - A World Conference with a concrete outcome
• 13 December 1977 - A concrete case of North-South cooperation
• 1980 - IFAD proves that smallholders and the rural poor are bankable
• 1984 - The initiative of 82 Nobel Prize laureates bears fruit in IFAD
• 1985 - Response to critical situation in sub-Saharan Africa
• January 1988 - IFAD celebrates its tenth anniversary
• 1992 - Rural women: full partners in development
• 1994 - Re-engineering
• November 1995 - In coalition with civil society, the Conference on Hunger and Poverty
• October 1996 - The Global Forum for Agricultural Research
• September 1997 - Global Mechanism and October 4, 1997 - Forum of Mayors and local governments
• Chairmen of Governing Councils

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