IFAD's financial products, landing terms and conditions

•OBJECTIVE: to finance projects designed to improve food production in the poorest food-deficit countries and to enhance incomes, productivity and nutritional status of the rural poor.

•TOOLS: IFAD provides funding in form of concessional loans and grants to governments to develop and finance programmes and projects that enable poor rural people to overcome poverty themselves.

•GUIDING PRINCIPLE: IFAD ‘shall make arrangements to ensure that the proceeds of any financing are used only for the purposes for which the financing was provided, with due attention to considerations of economy, efficiency and social equity’.