ROME / MALI IFAD COUNCIL

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is calling on its 177 Member States to help double its impact on the lives of the world’s most marginalized people by 2030. Gilbert F. Houngbo, IFAD’s President, is proposing a (USD) 30 billion programme of work over the next ten years to confront increasing challenges to rural populations. IFAD

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:08
• Production Date: 11 February 2020
• Asset Language: French
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT - IFAD
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD
• Geographic Subject: MALI
• MAMS Id: 2530306
• Parent Id: 2530306
• Alternate Title: unifeed200211g

Description

STORY: ROME / MALI IFAD COUNCIL
TRT: 3:08
SOURCE: IFAD
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 11 FEBRUARY 2020, ROME, ITALY

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, plenary
2. Close up, GC IFAD logo
3. Wide shot, Gilbert Houngbo at podium
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Gilbert Houngbo, President of IFAD:
“Around the world, climate change is threatening food systems. Sea levels continue to rise. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent, and more severe. Food supplies are threatened by drought, flood and fire. Making matters worse, conflict and fragility are directly affecting rural people.”
5. Wide shot, Houngbo at podium
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Gilbert Houngbo:
“It is rural people – and especially small-scale farmers – who, as always, suffer most.”
7. Wide shot, plenary
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Gilbert Houngbo:
“Therefore, our ambition is to have a programme of loans and grants of between US$4 billion and US$5 billion for the IFAD12 period. A robust agricultural sector lies at the heart of sustainable food systems.”
9. Med shot, cameramen
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Gilbert Houngbo:
“Our ambition is to double our impact on the ground in the decade ahead, and IFAD can do it.
11. Close Up, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta arriving and greeted by Gilbert Houngbo
12. Wide shot, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and Gilbert Houngbo posing for pictures
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, President of Mali:
“Mali will never give up. Neither us nor the other countries of the Sahel. We are bleeding but we shall prevail with support of agencies like IFAD.”
14. Med shot, audience in plenary
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, President of Mali:
“What IFAD has done in our country, is of the highest quality and has enabled us, a people faced with the worst kind of challenges, to, despite all, uphold our values, and keep our dignity.”
16. Wide shot, Hounbgo and Keïta leaving together

Storyline

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is calling on its 177 Member States to help double its impact on the lives of the world’s most marginalized people by 2030. Gilbert F. Houngbo, IFAD’s President, is proposing a (USD) 30 billion programme of work over the next ten years to confront increasing challenges to rural populations.

SOUNDBITE (French) Gilbert Houngbo, President of IFAD:
“Around the world, climate change is threatening food systems. Sea levels continue to rise. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent, and more severe. Food supplies are threatened by drought, flood and fire. Making matters worse, conflict and fragility are directly affecting rural people. And it is rural people – and especially small-scale farmers – who, as always, suffer most.”

Today’s call for increased investments marks the launch of IFAD’s Twelfth Replenishment – a year-long consultative process during which IFAD’s Member States come together to agree on strategic directions and mobilize funds for IFAD to provide as concessional loans and grants to developing countries.

SOUNDBITE (French) Gilbert Houngbo, President of IFAD:
“Our ambition is to have a programme of loans and grants of between US$4 billion and US$5 billion for the IFAD12 period [2022-2025]. A robust agricultural sector lies at the heart of sustainable food systems.”

SOUNDBITE (French) Gilbert Houngbo, President of IFAD:
“Our ambition is to double our impact on the ground in the decade ahead, and IFAD can do it.”

Mali, a country currently experiencing a rise in conflict and food insecurity compounded by climate change, has seen the impact of IFAD’s long-term development initiatives in the country.

SOUNDBITE (French) Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, President of Mali:
“Mali will never give up. Neither us nor the other countries of the Sahel. We are bleeding but we shall prevail with support of agencies like IFAD.”

SOUNDBITE (French) Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, President of Mali:
“What IFAD has done in our country, is of the highest quality and has enabled us, a people faced with the worst kind of challenges, to, despite all, uphold our values, and keep our dignity.”

With increased support from Member States, IFAD aims to increase the production of more than 200 million small-scale producers, improve the resilience of more than 100 million rural people, and increase the incomes of about 260 million rural women and men by at least 20 per cent by 2030.