IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural Development

$75,000,000.00 CAD

≈ $1.79 for every person in Canada ≈ 958 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Global Affairs Canada
Program
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Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2009-2010
Agreement period
April 1, 2009 – March 30, 2012
Project status
Closed
Reference
CA-3-M013123001

Published purpose

This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). IFAD uses these funds, along with other donors' funding, to achieve its mandate. IFAD’s mandate is to improve rural food and nutrition security, and enable rural women and men to overcome poverty. IFAD works with poor rural people to help them grow and sell more food, increase their incomes and determine the direction of their own lives. Canada’s support to IFAD contributes to innovative projects and programs and to deliver country-specific solutions, which involve increasing the rural poor’s access to agricultural technologies, financial services, markets, land and other natural resources.

In plain English AI-generated

This grant provides Canada's institutional support to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to help reduce rural poverty and improve food security in developing countries.

Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada

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