The French development agency, Agence Française de Développement, has signed a €300 million loan to the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development to help small-scale farmers in high-risk countries build their resilience to shocks and increase their productivity.
The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development has announced that Sweden has pledged funds to help avert a potential food crisis in some of the world’s most vulnerable rural communities in the wake of COVID-19.
If a fraction of the government’s Covid-19 economic response been invested in health and care before the pandemic, there could have been a considerably better outcome, says the IPPR.
he UN Secretary-General has called for urgent and coordinated global action to respond to the crisis, including through a socio-economic response framework. IFAD is responding within this framework.