During this Business Seminar “Improving partnerships in agriculture” (Verbeteren van handelsketens in de landbouw) information is given about the International Fund for Agricultural Development. 

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. The conference was organized in response to the food crises of the early 1970s that primarily affected the Sahelian countries of Africa. It resolved that “an International Fund for Agricultural Development should be established immediately to finance agricultural development projects primarily for food production in the developing countries.” One of the most important insights emerging from the conference was that the causes of food insecurity and famine were not so much failures in food production but structural problems relating to poverty, and to the fact that the majority of the developing world’s poor populations were concentrated in rural areas.

The Executive President of IFAD, Kanayo Nwanze, will give information about existing partnerships of IFAD with the provate sector in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Minister Ploumen will outline the role of the Dutch government and opportunities for Dutch businesses.
(The Seminar is in English.)

Please go to the website of RVO for the full program and to register (before September 25, 2014).