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IFAD
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International Fund for Agricultural Development
International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD was established in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. IFAD supports increased food production in poor communities by providing funding and other resources to poor farmers and landless peoples in developing countries. For every dollar IFAD invested, it was able to mobilize almost two dollars from external donors.
IFAD is headquartered in Rome and its principal decision-making body is the Governing Council, where all member states are represented. The Executive Board meets three times a year and supervises the activities. It is chaired by the President of IFAD.
Documentation
The IFAD official web site provides background information, an overview of the activities, and full text reports and documents.
IFAD Annual report is posted online from 1977 onwards at the official web site.
IFAD Update is published twice yearly in English, Spanish, French and Arabic and posted at the IFAD official web site.
A summary of the work of the International Fund for Agricultural Development for a given year with references to essential documents can be accessed through the Yearbook of the United Nations, Part Six: Intergovernmental organizations to the United Nations. A complete collection of yearbooks and a CD-ROM is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
Databases and Indexes
The Rural Poverty Portal is a web portal to rural poverty information sources posted at the IFAD official web site.
Rural Poverty Knowledgebase contains sources of information and good practices with examples from IFAD's projects.