FAO-IFAD: Complementarity and Cooperation

Abstract

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Fund for Agricultural Development are natural partners, sharing professional and material resources as well as a common host city, Rome. As United Nations agencies, they have different specialties but share similar mandates and goals. Given the protracted and recurrent nature of contemporary humanitarian crises, and the world’s approval of the Sustainable Development Goals, it is all the more essential that all UN agencies and partners work together across sectors and institutional boundaries.