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International Fund for Agricultural Development
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IFAD's mission is to work
with the poorest populations in rural areas of developing
countries to eliminate hunger and poverty, enhance food security,
raise productivity and incomes, and improve the quality of
life through improved access to productive resources and empowerment.
IFAD has four major
roles:
- As
an innovator in the development of effective rural-poverty-eradication
instruments, models and know-how at the grassroots level,
IFAD seeks new ways to address the constraints faced by
its beneficiaries in a diversity of local contexts. In doing
so, it consolidates, refines and enhances its “intellectual
capital”;
- As
a knowledge organisation, IFAD builds on its role as an
innovator through a process of mutual learning and lesson-sharing
with other stakeholders active in the field;
- As
a catalyst, IFAD extends its outreach through strategic
partnerships that build on cross-fertilisation of ideas
and approaches. In doing so, IFAD takes into account the
programmes and efforts of other donors and facilitates the
replication and scaling up of national and local initiatives,
as well as influencing policy and practices in favour of
the poor; and
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As a leader in effective, sustainable poverty-alleviation
strategies, IFAD demonstrates its achievements qualitatively
and quantitatively.
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