The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a fund to confront biodiversity loss, climate change and environmental degradation. It supports developing countries to address environmental priorities and adhere to international environmental conventions.

As one of GEF’s executing agencies, IFAD supports sustainable land and water management, climate-smart agriculture, agroecology, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation and resilience building.

Together, IFAD and GEF address crucial global challenges and diverse environmental initiatives. Since beginning in 2001, the partnership now has an active portfolio of more than US$200 million across 35 projects and US$1.9 billion in co-financing. These projects have a range of scopes and address multiple GEF focal areas.

IFAD is currently focusing on the Great Green Wall initiative, the Least Developed Countries Fund and the Food Systems Integrated Programme.