Shaping the future of food in 2025 

In our first episode of the year, we look back at the rural success stories of 2024 – and set our sights on what’s to come in 2025.

Crisis Response Initiative strengthens food security for over 175,000 rural Afghan families

The Crisis Response Initiative (CRI) was set up by IFAD to protect livelihoods and mitigate the impacts of emergency situations on rural communities.

IFAD, Nepal launch US$120 million programme to help over 250,000 people improve rural food production

IFAD and the Government of Nepal signed a US$120 million eight-year agreement to help over a quarter million people living on small-scale farms transition towards commercial and agroecological farming.

Strengthening food systems through development finance - Episode 72

Join us behind the scenes of the work of The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development.

How a new Global Alliance aims to end hunger and poverty

The SDGs are slipping away. But if we work together, it’s not too late to get back on track and fulfil the promise of a better future.

2024 Annual General Assembly: Financing Food Systems Transformation and Rural Revitalization

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development’s Annual General Assembly will rethink how the international community can optimize limited official development assistance in food and nutrition.

Committee on World Food Security 52

This year’s event will focus on the theme: "50 Years of CFS: Acting Together for a world free from hunger and malnutrition".

Everyone has the right to food. Small farms can fulfil this right

With the right support, small-scale farmers can feed their communities without relying on expensive imported inputs.

Summit of the Future: IFAD calls for political determination to reform the global financial architecture

Alvaro Lario, President of IFAD, urges world leaders at the UN's Summit in New York to “recognize that a lack of resources is not the greatest barrier – it is the political determination to invest in solutions at the scale needed".