Events

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

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.

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”.