Canada announced today that it will be the first country to pledge funds to a new facility set up by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to help prevent a food crisis in some of the world’s poorest and most marginalized rural communities in the wake of COVID-19. The ...

British actor Idris Elba (L) and his wife, actress and model, Sabrina Dhowre Elba (M), both IFAD Goodwill Ambassadors for the UN rural poverty agency IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) speak with a rural farmer named Clement ...