📅 14 – 15 February 2024
Rome, Italy
The Governing Council is IFAD main decision-making body. The forty-seventh session will focus on “Innovation for a food secure future”.
Every day, rural people grapple with climate change, conflict, poverty, and other hardships. In an increasingly complex world, the world cannot rely on conventional approaches alone to respond to these challenges. The world needs new ways to make rural development more sustainable, resilient, equitable, and inclusive. In short: the world needs innovation.
IFAD invests in testing and scaling up new processes, products and approaches that sustainably and equitably tackle rural challenges.
An interactive Innovation Marketplace at the Governing Council will showcase 10 innovative ideas funded and developed by IFAD and partners that are delivering results for rural people and vulnerable groups.