January 1988 - IFAD celebrates its tenth anniversary
His Holiness Pope John Paul II participates in the Eleventh Session of the Governing Council, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of IFAD.
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Other milestones in IFAD's history
- 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
- 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
