Events

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.