The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform working to ensure food security and nutrition for all. Using an inclusive multi-stakeholder approach, CFS develops and endorses policy recommendations and guidance on a wide range of food security and nutrition topics.

This webinar will present the work of the Jaringan Kerja Pemetaan Partisipatif (in English: Indonesian Community Mapping Network).

In this consultation space for rural youth, part of the Pre-COP26 Youth Summit in Milan, we will hear directly from young farmers who are underserved by global climate finance flows.

This third Lab webinar will present instruments for enhancing environmental and socio-economic impact assessment focused on agriculture, forestry, and land use (AFOLU).

This event will feature new evidence on, and approaches to generating evidence on, fostering inclusive climate actions in rural spaces.

This webinar will present the new GAEZ v4 platform. It will give an overview of the data the platform contains and how they can be accessed. It will also provide examples of how the data can be used to support agricultural projects and frameworks.

The UN Food Systems Summit will launch bold new actions to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems.

The report promotes equitable livelihoods for rural people, who are front and centre in transforming food systems, alongside the need to improve nutrition and protect the environment.

To amplify the voices of small-scale farmers and other rural people in sub-Saharan Africa, Farm Radio International has partnered with IFAD, World Vision Canada, and the Canadian Food Security Policy Group to conduct a series of On-Air Dialogues.

Únase a las Agencias de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura con sede en Roma, el FIDA, la FAO, y el PMA, en el Día de las Naciones Unidas para la Cooperación Sur-Sur. El tema de este año es: La transformación de los sistemas agroalimentarios y las voces del Sur global.

The theme for UNGA 2021 is "Building resilience through hope." Hope will help us recover from COVID-19, rebuild sustainability, respond to the needs of the planet, respect the rights of people, and revitalize the United Nations.

This event will highlight donor perspectives on the food systems agenda in response to the UN Food Systems Summit.

This event is part of the FAO and IFAD webinar series GeoTech4Tenure.

Join us for the launch of IFAD’s first comprehensive report on a holistic approach to sustainable production and food systems.

The AGRF is considered the world’s most important and impactful forum for African agriculture.

This Pre–Food Systems Summit session will hear from leaders from the public sector, Public Development Banks (PDBs), private investors, farmers’ organizations, and others to discuss how PDBs can catalyse more green and inclusive investments in food and agriculture, and channel more financing towards small-scale producers.

This Pre–Food Systems Summit session gives a voice to small-scale producers and agri-entrepreneurs in poor and marginalized areas who may not otherwise be heard.

This three-day Pre-Summit will bring together the efforts and contributions of the global engagement process designed to give shape to our ambitions to transform our food systems.

A festival of short films, documentaries, video clips and animation shorts, held in the heart of Sicily.

In this pre–Food Systems Summit session, we will take a close look at the challenges food systems are facing, the key drivers of change, and the potential game-changing solutions.

This session presents lessons learned from IFAD’s ASAP Programme to highlight practical ways to support the resilience of small-scale farmers around the world.

Over two days of virtual events on 14 and 15 July, Devex reporters will dig into what is on the agenda, talk to experts both inside and outside the planning process, and set the stage for what success looks like for the pre-Summit and Summit to follow.

This webinar introduced the role of the public sector in Israel in creating and enabling environments and platforms for the assimilation of innovative agri-tech into farming practices.

This study compared the average pasture conditions between 2000–2004 and 2016–2020 using Landsat-based spectral indices and a digital elevation model. The remote sensing analysis took pasture types, grazing periods, altitudes, and a dataset with field measurements into account.

This webinar will launch a new report by Grow Asia, commissioned by IFAD, that illustrates how digital technologies are reshaping agriculture in the region. 

How to integrate reforms in social protection programmes with agricultural and rural interventions to benefit family farmers and improve their resilience.

The Global Model United Nations is a simulation of the work of the United Nations. It was created in 2019 by students of University of Rome Tor Vergata and is organized by the public universities of Rome in cooperation with IFAD.

Join ICIMOD and IFAD for the launch of a Resource Book and policy briefs for the transitioning of shifting cultivation to more resilient farming systems.

Join us for this Food Systems Summit independent dialogue exploring possible solutions and actions to make aquatic foods a key part of food systems transformation.

Optimizing results and enhancing the nexus among gender equality, climate resilience, and nutrition.

On 16 and 17 June, IFAD will host the Global Forum on Remittances, Investment and Development 2021, held virtually.

Join IFAD, Food Tank, the Global Alliance for the Future of Food and the Champions Network for the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit for a series of panel discussions to explore how to transform and strengthen the world’s food systems.

IFAD Innovation Talk No. 5

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform working to ensure food security and nutrition for all.

Join us, along with panellists from academia, research, governments, civil society and development agencies, to discuss the climate-nutrition nexus.

Farmers supported by the Smallholder Commercialization Programme have shifted from slash-and-burn cultivation to rice cultivation in inland swamps.

Join IFAD and Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD), featuring Nobel Laureate Professor Michael Kremer, in a dialogue about digital agriculture and the rural poor.

This side event at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is an opportunity to report on the progress made with the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD.

This high-level dialogue will identify ways to expand activities, financing and partnerships to further leverage technology and innovation for the transformation of agriculture in Africa.

IFAD Innovation Talk No. 3

A side event at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, supported by IFAD, FAO and WFP.

This webinar discusses how spatial analysis was used to target poor and vulnerable communities in the design of IFAD-funded projects in Latin America.

IFAD is preparing the GCF Great Green Wall Umbrella Programme through a consultative process to ensure it responds to the needs and priorities of the countries involved.

This event will look at proposals from the UN Food Systems Summit process and solutions from different regions, and consider their potential from the perspectives of women entrepreneurs, investors, and other key stakeholders.

IFAD will present GeoScan, an innovative IT application giving access to over 180 data layers from verified sources that can be used in the design of IFAD strategies and projects for countries in West and Central Africa.

This Forum is a historical opportunity to promote the full implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.

Find out more about how remote sensing products can be successfully incorporated into impact evaluation models, opening new possibilities for the assessment of ecosystem restoration programmes.

This short and informative webinar will present an interesting geo-spatial study that used pasture type maps, geo-botany maps, and remote sensing to analyse the health of pastures in one municipality in Kyrgyzstan.

While we may have clear intentions, our decisions are not always a reflection of the goals we wish to achieve. 

Join us to talk about the potential of neglected and underutilized species.