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.

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

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.

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.

IFAD Innovation Talk No. 10

A high-level forum that will feature IFAD’s landmarks: Excellence, Partnership, Collaboration.

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.

Innovators spend 30% of their working week storytelling. Yet most lack formal training on how to use story frameworks and plotlines.

IFAD Innovation Talk No. 8

Join IFAD, the Asian Development Bank, ENEL Green Power, FAO, UNDP and others for a dialogue about how tracking results and targeted impact investing can drive the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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

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. 

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

IFAD Innovation Talk No. 5

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 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

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.

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

Join IFAD, IFPRI and CGIAR for the launch of the Agricultural Investment Data Analyzer tool (AIDA).