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UN-Water Chair: After the pandemic we must build hope through water and sanitation
Opinion Gilbert F. Houngbo, Chair of UN-Water and President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) The coronavirus has stopped the world in its tracks and while the pandemic... Read more
Joint statement for World Water Day and World Meteorological Day 2020
World Water Day and World Meteorological Day 2020 Joint message Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization, Gilbert F. Houngbo, Chair... Read more
Water and Sanitation: Letting Data Lead the Way
25 September 2019 – Guest article in International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) SDG Knowledge Hub by Mr Gilbert F. Houngbo, Chair of UN-Water... Read more
Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme
Asset development
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Agenda 2030 offers clear evidence that IFAD’s mandate of investing in rural people and enabling inclusive and sustainable transformation of rural areas, notably through smallholder agriculture-led growth, is of absolute global relevance today and over the coming decade.
2019: a year with focus on indigenous people and marginalized groups
The theme for World Water Day 2019, celebrated on 22 March, is ‘Leaving no one behind’. This is an... Read more
The linkages between migration, agriculture, food security and rural development.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the International... Read more