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  AllRefer.com - International Fund for Agricultural Development, UN (United Nations) - Encyclopedia
International Fund for Agricultural Development(IFAD), specialized agency of the United Nations with headquarters in Rome, Italy.
IFAD grew out of the 1974 World Food Conference; it was established in 1977 and is comprised of 161 member nations.
As of 2001, IFAD had financed almost 600 projects in 115 countries, committing nearly $7.4 billion in grants and loans.
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 Encyclopedia: International Development Association
The International Development Association (IDA) was created on September 24, 1960, is a UN specialized agency.
It is responsible for providing long-term interest-free loans to the poorest of developing countries on terms more lenient than those of the World Bank proper, and forms part of the World Bank Group based in Washington, D.C. September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years).
Developing capacity, for example, by retrofitting projects with HIV/AIDS activities, drafting an HIV/AIDS impact assessment module as part of the standard environmental and health assessment of projects, incorporating HIV/AIDS into “heavily indebted poor country” (HIPC) and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) packages, and developing sector-specific guidelines for addressing HIV/AIDS in transport, agriculture, education, and mining.
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(IFAD), specialized agency of the United Nations with headquarters in Rome, Italy.
Plan for $5.1 million in Actus funds likely by July 1.
Micro businesses as an economic development tool: what they bring and what they need.
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development is an agency of the United Nations.
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Its main objective is "...to provide direct funding and mobilize additional resources for programmes specifically designed to promote the economic advancement of the rural poor, mainly by improving the agricultural productivity of on and off-farm activities."
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 International Fund for Agricultural Development --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Partly in response to severe famines in the southern Sahara in the early 1970s, the 1974 World Food Conference adopted a resolution that established IFAD in November 1977.
IFAD's mandate is to provide funding and other resources…
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