Events

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.