Events

Terra Madre, organized by the Slow Food movement, seeks to reshape our relationship with nature through food, creating a healthier and more sustainable future.

The authors of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) Report 2024 will present the findings and recommendations of the report.

This event will introduce ELPS  –  the 2023 Japanese G7 Presidency initiative – as a new public-private partnership model.

To mark the International South-South Cooperation Day, the Brazilian Cooperation Agency, IFAD, FAO and WFP will host an event on how to address global challenges through practical and collaborative solutions.

This Innovation Talk will explore innovations and strategies to transform global food systems and delve into how philanthropic partnerships and investments can be mobilized for systems change.

IFAD's side event at the Africa Food Systems Forum will explore how open innovation can strengthen the resilience of rural smallholder farmers and advance sustainable agricultural development.

The Africa Food Systems Forum brings together stakeholders from across the continent to mobilize action and share lessons to build productive, nutritious, inclusive, resilient and sustainable food systems in Africa.

The theme of the 2025 Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD is “Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination: a pathway for food security and sovereignty”.

This webinar will review the main concepts of development finance, provide an overview of the current development financing architecture and offer a preview of the emerging messages from the 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report (SOFI).

Join us for an in-depth exploration of the transformative role of sustainable finance in addressing global climate challenges and social upheavals

This event will showcase the finalists from the Joint Moonshots for Development Open Innovation Challenge on AI for Climate Resilience in Rural Areas.

This talk will explore the roles Governments and the private sector play in deploying DPI to advance agricultural practices.

The goal of the summit is to highlight the crucial role of fertilizer and soil health in stimulating sustainable pro-poor productivity growth in African agriculture.

This event will share the insights and successes of the Women’s Resource Rights Grant initiative. It will discuss tools and strategies to embed gender transformative approaches in projects focused on securing women's land and resource rights.

This event will showcase collaboration between partners in Asia and the Pacific, providing insights into the status of rural women and policy recommendations to invest in women in agrifood systems.

To commemorate International Women’s Day, IFAD, FAO and WFP are hosting a joint event to discuss how investing in women is essential for building inclusive and equitable societies.

This webinar will explore the successes and lessons learned from RESADE, including a discussion on practical solutions for transforming salinity challenges into new possibilities.

The Governing Council is IFAD’s main decision-making body. The forty-seventh session will focus on innovation.

The 2024 global Farmers’ Forum brings together more than 80 farmers' leaders from around the world, representing millions of smallholders and rural producers who work with IFAD and partner institutions.

A panel of speakers will share insights and experiences of different approaches and highlight research from projects in Bangladesh on securing women’s resource rights through GTAs.

Selected from 200 starts-ups, four finalists will pitch their AI-driven solutions to enhance climate adaptation, resource management, and disaster readiness in rural communities.

The fourth session of the IFAD13 replenishment will be co-hosted by France and Angola. Here, Member States will agree on the final IFAD13 replenishment report and announce pledges to IFAD13.

A distinguished panel of speakers will share experience of different approaches on how securing women’s resource rights through GTAs in the country.

IFAD has advocated for climate finance and adaptation for many years. We will continue to do so at COP28, using this opportunity to amplify the voices of small-scale producers and promote their role in climate change responses and resilient food systems.

A distinguished panel of speakers will share experience of different approaches on how securing women’s resource rights through GTAs in the country.

To commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and mark the beginning the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, experts from the Rome-based Agencies of the United Nations (FAO, IFAD and WFP) will highlight the adverse impact of GBV on agricultural production and food security.

This learning exchange series will share insights and highlight research on securing women’s resource rights through gender transformative approaches using examples from Ethiopia, The Gambia, Kyrgyzstan, Colombia, Bangladesh and Uganda.

This event will bring together SPARK's strategic partners to share invaluable insights and achievements on inclusive rural transformation in four SPARK countries.

The Annual General Assembly (AGA) of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) provides an open space for dialogue and discussion on critical emerging issues in rural development and food systems.

This session will provide examples of how donors can mobilize responsible investment from the private sector and present the results of new research by the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development and the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate on how donors can develop partnerships with funders to drive investment in smallholder farmers.

Gender transformative approaches address gender gaps by tackling the root causes of inequality. A panel of speakers will share insights on different approaches to secure women’s resource rights in Ethiopia and Malawi.

The Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice will meet to discuss recommendations to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity, including monitoring of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

IFAD President, Alvaro Lario, and our Goodwill Ambassador, Sabrina Dhowre Elba, will represent IFAD and the world's poor rural people at UNGA, highlighting our key role in achieving the 2030 Agenda.

The UN Day for South-South Cooperation showcases the growing capacity of South-South and Triangular Cooperation to contribute to global development.

AGRF brings together agricultural stakeholders to commit to programmes, investments and policies that move African agriculture forward.

Environmental leaders from 185 countries will gather in Vancouver for the Seventh Assembly of the Global Environment Facility to discuss solutions to ensure a healthy planet with healthy people.

This stocktaking moment will further reaffirm the world’s commitment to act with urgency, at scale and in line with the promise of the SDGs.

Discover how top innovators, like Google, Apple and Harvard, build organizations that repeatedly develop break-through innovations from Innovation Alliance’s Chris Heemskerk.

How to make innovation and impact investments work for the rural poor?

This Committee on World Food Security side event will share good practices for enacting the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women and Girls’ Empowerment.

The Summit for a New Global Financial Pact aims to build a new consensus for a more inclusive international financial system to fight inequalities, finance the climate transition and bring us closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

This webinar will discuss overweight and obesity in rural areas of developing countries, focusing on food systems.

IFAD and the UN Office of the Special Adviser for Africa are hosting the Global Forum on Remittances, Investment and Development (GFRID) Summit 2023.
 

To celebrate the 2023 UN Behavioural Science Week, IFAD is hosting a number of events on the use of behavioural science within our projects.

This event is an opportunity for Indigneous Peoples, farmers and youth representatives to discuss ways of strengthening partnerships during the IFAD13 cycle.

The Africa Agribusiness and Science Week (AASW8) gathers over 1,000 stakeholders involved in agriculture and agribusiness research and innovation in Africa.

This webinar will launch the International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR) campaign and will set the stage for the upcoming Global Forum on Remittances, Investment and Development (GFRID) Summit 2023.

To help African farmers be ready to adopt new technologies, the Alliance for a Green revolution in Africa (AGRA), partnered with IFAD under the project "Improving Delivery of Seed and Soil Fertility Technologies" (IDSST).

IFAD will host an event on ‘Making Reporting on Indigenous Peoples Issues Safe and Meaningful’. 

This year’s Forum focuses on “Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach”.

This event will discuss how the new EU-IFAD partnership agreements can be used to promote agro-ecological approaches and other sustainable agricultural practices among youth.

This event will explore how neuroscience can enhance the potential of evaluations and how this impacts IFAD’s work.

The Conference is the most important water event in a generation. It aims to raise awareness of the global water crisis and decide on concerted action to achieve the internationally agreed water-related goals and targets, including those contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Critical challenges in attaining food security and climate change adaptation in the Pacific, and opportunities for strengthened collaboration.

This year’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) focuses on innovation and education in the digital age to achieve gender equality, with an emphasis on rural women and girls.

Young people play a vital role in transforming food systems and accelerating a “Just Transition”. Leveraging young people’s fresh perspectives, innovation, and energy can spur inclusive green work opportunities in agrifood systems.
 

This event will examine the connections between these three resources; the synergies, conflicts and trade-offs that arise from how they are managed; and the opportunities for increased investment.

This event will deep-dive into food systems transformation, what it is all about, the role of small-scale farmers in achieving it, and how it can be financed.

This event will discuss the challenges and opportunities of private sector finance and identify concrete investments and policy actions.

Through evidence, storytelling and a Q&A, this session will showcase how the effective participation of Indigenous Peoples in decision-making and policymaking is key to achieving food security.

The forty-sixth session of the IFAD Governing Council, taking place on 14 and 15 February 2023, will focus on “Accelerating Action for Food Security”.

The sixth global meeting of the Indigenous Peoples' Forum at IFAD will focus on Indigenous Peoples’ Climate Leadership: Community-based solutions to enhance resilience and biodiversity.

This year, the decentralized farmers’ forum meetings will take place in different regions around the world with the aim of strengthening impact at country level.

During this special session of the IFAD Innovation Talks, IFAD’s President, Alvaro Lario, will share his vision of innovation for IFAD and how he expects this to deliver transformational impact for the rural poor.

To support knowledge sharing, IFAD, the International Trade Centre, the United Nations Population Fund, UN System Staff College, the World Tourism Organisation and the World Food Forum will share their 2022 Innovation Champions and experiences.

The governing body of the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will have its 15th meeting of Conference of the Parties (COP15) to approve the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

The Global Forum on Remittances, Investment and Development (GFRID) presents opportunities to promote greater digital and financial inclusion for migrants and their families back home through African postal operators.

This Symposium, held in partnership with the Asian Development Bank and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in Korea, will share findings and recommendations to promote agricultural and rural development through digital solutions.

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is an international campaign running from 25 November to 10 December to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls.

Under the theme “Opportunity in an evolving landscape,” this year’s event will focus on practical ways to turn the current food crisis into an opportunity for agri-SME finance and investment.

As COP27 comes to an end, we would like to invite you to our virtual learning event on transformative methodologies results in Rwanda. We will present the results of the Gender Action Learning System for Gender equality and climate change adaptation (GALS+).

Join IFAD at COP27 in addressing the nexus between climate change and poverty and discover how modern agricultural practices and climate change adaptation can become part of the solution.

Remittances contribute hugely to the economic health and social development of developing countries – IFAD and IOM know this well. For this reason, the two agencies are teaming up at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh to highlight the importance of these payments.

This year’s iteration of the event will take place on the 10-12 November and will focus on riding out the multicrisis and preserving global cooperation.

The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) will focus on adaptation and agriculture, calling for scaled up financing for poor and vulnerable communities so they can cope with the increasing impacts of climate change.

This event will discuss the role of Development Finance Institutions in assembling finance for food systems transformation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Opportunities, innovative practices, and priority areas will also be discussed.

The Global Model United Nations (GMUN) is a simulation of the work of the United Nations. It was created in 2019 by students studying Global Governance at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome and is held in cooperation with IFAD.

Ahead of the sixth Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD in February 2023, 14 regional and sub-regional consultation meetings are being held to ensure the Forum reflects the diverse perspectives of Indigenous Peoples around the world.

This virtual side event at the World Food Forum will be a youth-led discussion on the role of young professionals and leaders in building a sustainable and healthy planet for rural youth, while bringing new perspectives and ideas to address the challenges that young people in marginalised rural communities face.

Finance in Common is the global network of Public Development Banks (PDBs), which aims to align financial flows on the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement for Climate Change.

Building on last year’s success, this year the World Food Forum's (WFF) flagship event will comprise the Global Youth Forum for Food and Agriculture, the Science and Innovation Forum and the Hand-in- Hand Investment Forum.

IFAD’s Land Tenure Desk and FAO’s Land Tenure present the eighth webinar in their series on technological solutions for land recordation, part of the GeoTech4Tenure learning programme.

This webinar will provide insights on how countries are handling emission reductions and reporting against their targets, with a focus on emissions reductions in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use sector.

To celebrate International Rural Women’s Day, and as part of the Committee on World Food Security, IFAD’s Associate Vice-President of the Strategy and Knowledge Department, Jo Puri, will speak to women across the globe who will give their insights on what it is like to be a rural woman in an emerging food crisis.

This session, CFS 50, will focus on the theme of “Global Responses to a Global Food Crisis – Leaving No One Behind" and the findings of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022.

Part of TICAD8, this event will bring together food systems stakeholders to discuss new processes and products that add value and deliver sustainable, equitable and inclusive solutions.

In an effort to enhance the economy, efficiency, effectiveness and fairness of all operations financed by Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), the Heads of Procurement (HOP) hold annual meetings to harmonize procurement policies and practices.

Organized by the Slow Food movement, Terra Madre Salone del Gusto is the biggest international event dedicated to food politics, sustainable agriculture and the environment.

As part of TICAD8, this panel of civil society, private sector, UN and research actors will discuss challenges, lessons learned, solutions and opportunities to bolster healthy diets and sustainably transform food systems.

Ce webinaire abordera différents aspects des investissements et subventions tenant compte des inégalités femmes-hommes dans le cadre de programmes d'investissement contre les risques liés aux changements climatiques et aux catastrophes.

The 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 77) will open on Tuesday, 13 September 2022. The first day of the high-level General Debate will be Tuesday, 20 September 2022.

IFAD’s Land Tenure Desk and FAO’s Land Tenure present the seventh webinar in their series on technological solutions for land recordation, part of the GeoTech4Tenure learning programme.

This year, the expo will focus on ‘Advancing South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Sustainable COVID-19 Recovery: Towards a Smart and Resilient Future’.

The African Green Revolution Forum—Africa’s premier forum for driving the food and agriculture agenda on the continent—will host its annual summit under the theme ‘Grow, Nourish, Reward – Bold Actions for Resilient Food Systems’.

The Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment and Promotion (SHEP) approach transforms farmers’ mindset from "grow and sell" to "grow to sell," helping them increase their income with adequately supported technical and marketing competencies.

Speakers will discuss developing customer-centric and inclusive insurance products under the IFAD-financed Managing Risks for Rural Development Project.

IFAD Innovation Talk No. 10

A special session of IFAD’s Governing Council will be held in order to appoint its new President. Nominations received by the Secretary of IFAD for the presidency will be considered by Member States.

Join IFAD, the Smallholder and Agri-SME Finance and Investment Network (SAFIN), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Good Food Hub to discuss the key impacts, challenges and unexpected opportunities for the future of financing agri-SMEs during times of crisis.

Innovation Day kicks off the IFAD'22 conference and will gather stakeholders to share knowledge on how to originate, pilot, test, and scale solutions that help solve challenges in rural development and climate-change adaptation.