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Partly in response to severe famines in the southern Sahara in the early 1970s, the 1974 World Food Conference adopted a resolution that established IFAD in November 1977.

If donor governments really want results, they should take the money out of the hands of 30 or more separate aid bureaucracies and pool it in one or two places, the most logical being the World Bank in Washington and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad) in Rome.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), in approving funding to support the National Programme for Rangeland Rehabilitation and Development, referred to this as the 'worst drought in decades' (IFAD [2002]).

This was established by FAO in partnership with IFAD in 1996 and has sought to strengthen disease surveillance and communication within and between countries.

46 fragile and conflict-affected countries will have IFAD allocations in the period 2013-15 and they will receive some 45% of the total allocations in the current cycle (2013-15).

In 2013-2015 IFAD will finance operations in a total of 98 countries.

First, of the 95 countries in which IFAD had ongoing operations in 2012, a total of 38, or 40%, were classified as fragile.

IFAD says that in 2006 Zimbabwe got $361m in cash transfers, Cuba $983m and North Korea a whopping $1.8 billion.At least more governments are thinking about using remittances to step up investment.

IFAD's approach in protracted crises is guided by its 'Framework for bridging post-crisis recovery and long term development' (1998), a 'Crisis Prevention and Recovery Policy' (2006), a consultation document for the EB on 'IFAD's role in fragile states' (2008), evaluation insights on fragile states (2008).

In October 2008, IFAD prepared a paper for its members reviewing 'IFAD's role in fragile states'.

As the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), an organisation that invests in smallscale agriculture in rural environments around the world, Nwanze's work to highlight the importance of these farmers on the global agriculture scene won him the inaugural Africa Food Prize in 2016.