Gilbert F. Houngbo

“We have to see to it that each person, each community can utilize their own capacities to live a full life with dignity,” Pope Francis said

Of the world’s hungriest people, 243 million reside in Africa. Throughout the region, food insecurity has been exacerbated by violent conflicts and climate-related shocks

In the Somali region of Ethiopia, rains have failed for the third consecutive year. The death of many livestock has caused a breakdown in pastoral livelihoods, contributing...

Migration flows and the remittances that migrants send home are having large-scale impacts on the global economy and political landscape

Gilbert F. Houngbo, president of IFAD: "The Framework commits IFAD to working in ways that are bigger, better and smarter to maximize our impact on the lives of rural people"