Thirteenth Replenishment of the International Fund for Agricultural Development 2025-2027

This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the thirteenth replenishment of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). IFAD uses these funds along with other donor funding to achieve its mandate. IFAD’s mandate is to support rural populations especially smallholder farmers to achieve food security and nutrition overcome poverty and become resilient especially to the effects of climate change. IFAD provides grants and low-interest loans to developing countries to support programmes and projects that promote agricultural growth and inclusive rural transformation. The overarching priority of this replenishment is to build resilient rural livelihoods and food systems. To achieve this IFAD is focusing on the three priority areas: i) enhancing focus on fragile contexts; ii) investing in biodiversity and climate resilience of small-scale producers; and iii) increasing engagement with the private sector. IFAD is also raising ambition with respect to its four mainstreaming themes of environment and climate gender youth and nutrition.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased economic mobility of rural populations; (2) improved production for smallholder farmers; (3) improved market access for smallholder farmers; (4) increased resilience of rural populations; (5) improved nutrition of rural populations; and (6) improved women’s empowerment in households.