IFAD in Country

IFAD in Mexico

Since 1980, when IFAD began working in Mexico, it has approved nine loans and grants totalling US$178.1 million for agricultural development projects there.

IFAD’s operations in Mexico have evolved over the decades. Beginning with strong support for community empowerment, the projects it finances have placed increasing emphasis on indigenous peoples – and particularly the participation of indigenous rural women in productive activities.

Currently, IFAD focuses on improving income levels and employment in rural communities in Mexico, with special attention to indigenous communities, small farmers and members of the ejidos, or areas of communal land used for agriculture. It also promotes and strengthens the capacity of grassroots organizations to help achieve sustainable, community-driven local development, and encourages the active participation of rural women and indigenous people in social and economic decision-making in their communities.

IFAD’s strategy in Mexico

The strategic objectives in IFAD’s Country Strategic Opportunities Programme are based on its implementation experience and mirror the objectives of Mexico’s National Development Plan 2007-2012. These include contributing to:

Generating sustainable income and permanent employment through the government programmes in which IFAD participates, with a focus on the poorest and most marginalized segments of the population
Increasing the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of public spending on IFAD-supported activities that are being implemented within government programmes, with an eye toward extending the reach of these initiatives
Strengthening capacities to learn from experience and build effective methodologies for scaling up rural development strategies.

In line with these objectives, IFAD promotes measures that will increase crop yields and livestock, and provide new markets for small-scale producers. IFAD also supports microenterprise development projects, conservation of natural resources, linkages with local markets and the use of new technologies and information resources to benefit smallholder farmers.

Source: IFAD

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