IFAD

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.

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.

In a message released on the United Nations' International Day of Family Remittances , observed each 16 June, the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development said remittances from migrant workers to their families are expected to rise to over US$550 billion in 2019, up some $20 billion from $529 billion in 2018.