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  • Projects and activities | 26 Jul 2021
Private Sector Financing Programme
Global Food and Nutrition Security

Brief me

Increasing IFAD’s impact on food security and rural poverty requires moving beyond routine interventions and traditional partners. In recent years official development aid for agriculture has stagnated at around US$10.5 billion per year and is far from answering the funding needs to end hunger. At the same time, in Africa alone 440 million youth will be entering the job market in the next two decades and need opportunities.