President's speeches

Plenary Meeting of the Summit for the Future

G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting, Second Session

G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting IICA-led Panel Overcoming Challenges: Pathways to Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture

G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting, First Plenary Session

Ministerial Meeting of the Task Force for the Establishment of a Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty

G20 Development Ministers’ Meeting: Ensuring access to water and sanitation

G20 Development Ministers’ Meeting Fighting Inequalities and Trilateral Cooperation

The Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty: Bridging Knowledge, Finance and Partnerships to achieve SDGs

OPEC Fund Development Forum Unleashing the Power of Human Potential

Arab Coordination Group Meeting

High-Level Renewable Energy and Food Security Investment Round Table on Sierra Leone

Korea-Africa Conference on Agricultural Cooperation, Opening Ceremony

Octava Conferencia Global sobre Agricultura Familiar: Sostenibilidad de Nuestro Planeta

Closing of the Forty-seventh Session of the Governing Council

IFAD13 Session: Governing Council Celebrating IFAD 13 and call to action

Governing Council 2024 Press Conference

Opening of the Forty-seventh Session of the Governing Council

Eighth Global Meeting of the Farmers’ Forum

Passing of His Excellency Sartaj Aziz

IFAD13 Replenishment – 4th Consultation

Launch of the Africa Rural Climate Adaptation Finance Mechanism – COP28

Bridging the Gap: IFAD's Role in Climate Finance for Smallholder Farmers - COP28

Committee on World Food Security (CFS51) - Opening Statement

World Food Forum 2023 - Hand in Hand Investment Forum

World Food Forum 2023 - Indigenous People event

World Food Day 2023 - Opening ceremony

Statement by IFAD President Alvaro Lario on situation in Israel and Gaza

International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

Finance in Common Summit - Closing Session

Finance in Common Summit - Closing the Gap for Resilient Food Systems Finance

UN Food Systems Summit + 2 Stocktaking, closing statement

AECID Conference: “Global crisis: The role of European Development Actors”

UN Food Systems Summit + 2 Stocktaking: Building Africa’s Food Sovereignty and Resilience through Sustainable Investments

UN Food Systems Summit + 2 Stocktaking

Publication of the 2023 report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI)

IFAD Innovation Day

Summit for a New Global Financial Pact

G20 Agriculture Ministerial Meeting - Breakout session, High Level Panel: Mainstreaming Women and Youth in Agricultural and Food Value Chains

G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting - Plenary Session: Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security and Nutrition

Global Forum on Remittances, Investment and Development

House Standing Committees on Agriculture and Agri-Food, and Foreign Affairs and International Development

World Farmers Markets Coalition - General Assembly

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

G7 Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting

G7 Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting Side Event: Widening private sector engagement for Sustainable and Resilient Food Value Chains

Japan-IFAD Joint Statement On the Strategic Partnership for Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems

International Women's Day 2023

CSW 67 – “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”

Closing of the Forty-sixth Session of the Governing Council

Opening of the Forty-sixth Session of the Governing Council

Sixth Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum

Dakar 2 Summit Feed Africa: Food sovereignty and resilience

WEF Crystal Awards Media Reception

Inauguration of IFAD Liaison Office in Japan

Strategic Dialogue with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Paris Peace Forum, Spotlight event

Great Green Wall - IGREENFIN High-level event at COP27

Signing of Partnership Agreement with Government of Egypt on the Nexus for Water, Food and Energy (NWFE)

International development co-operation in the face of climate change challenges, COP27

The EU response to food crises and support to African resilience: Agro-ecological approaches and the Great Green Wall

The Italian Climate Fund: enhancing global finance for a just and green transition – COP27

The second Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress 2022 (BARC 2022)

World Economy's triple threat: averting food, energy and financial crises

A Shared Pathway for Financing Food Systems Transformation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Finance in Common Summit 2022

World Food Day

International Rural Women’s Day

Rural Livelihood Resilience, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

G20 Joint Finance and Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting

The 50th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), Statement by Alvaro Lario, President of IFAD

Discours du Président du FIDA Mise en œuvre pilier 3 de l’initiative FARM

Statement by Gilbert Houngbo, President IFAD, to the 2022 Special Session of the Governing Council

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report, (SOFI) Opening Statement by Gilbert F. Houngbo IFAD President

President’s speech for the High-Level International Think Tank and Media Forum Global Development: Common Mission and Contributions

High-level Opening Segment of the Geneva Water Dialogue, remarks by Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of IFAD and Chair of UN-Water