The agriculture agency will give $40 million to a fund launched by Idris Elba to help farmers in poor nations. The Thomson Reuters Foundation spoke to IFAD’s president ahead of the announcement. Since the coronavirus pandemic began to hit developing nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has been finding ways to help rural […]
Actor, filmmaker and humanitarian Idris Elba and actress, model and activist Sabrina Dhowre Elba today launched a new global coronavirus relief fund on behalf of the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to prevent economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic from triggering a global hunger and food crisis. With US$40 million in […]
