IFAD President: "Rural youth need investment to build their own future" – Africa Food Systems Forum.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Press Release )International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is stressing that investing in rural development and transforming food systems is essential to ending hunger, reducing poverty, and building long-term resilience to any type of shocks.
IFAD and EADB to co-finance rural development in East Africa.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Press Release )The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the East Africa Development Bank (EADB) signed a cofinancing agreement to increase their impact through combined investment in IFAD’s projects for rural development and food systems transforma
IFAD supports five million rural people to strengthen climate resilience in Ethiopia’s lowlands.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Press Release )The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia signed a financing agreement to launch the second phase of the Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project.
Investing in rural economies can alleviate impact of high food prices on the world’s poorest people.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Press Release )With high food prices affecting people around the world, especially in low-income countries, Alvaro Lario, President of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), highlighted the urgency of making strategic investments in agriculture
One woman is killed every 10 minutes by their intimate partners or other family members  
Stories & Blogs UNODC (Press Release )The latest report on femicides reveals that 60 per cent of all female homicides are committed by intimate partners or other family members
Bribery becoming less accepted in Nigeria, says new report on corruption patterns and trends in the country.
Stories & Blogs UNODC (Press Release )Over 70 per cent of Nigerians who were asked to pay a bribe in 2023 refused to do so on at least one occasion, according to a new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).