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Gérardine Mukeshimana (born 10 December 1970) is a Rwandan scientist and politician who served as Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources from July 2014 until 2 March 2023. She was appointed Vice-President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialised agency of the United Nations, in July 2023 and took up the post on 28 August 2023.
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Rwanda’s agriculture sector has shown resilience in the face of the pandemic. However, the sector will need the right push to realise its full potential.
“The agriculture sector is set to create employment, satisfy our food and nutrition needs by 2022, and reduce the poverty rates from 39.1% to 15% by 2024.”
“Horticulture is central in our current Government Program to fight against malnutrition and hidden hunger as it’s an important source for vitamins and micro-nutrients.”
I am thrilled to join IFAD and amplify the global call to invest in small-scale farmers and to keep focus on making global and local food systems more sustainable, resilient and equitable for the people who work in them and feed the world.
“Last year, in 2024, around 673 million people went hungry.”
"We are putting all the tools that are needed for the financial sector to succeed, but also for the farmers and the farmers' organizations also to succeed,”
“Innovation flourishes when farmers are in the driver’s seat,” said Mukeshimana. “At IFAD, we stand beside them — not as financiers from afar, but as partners in learning, and scaling,”
“CROWN aims to empower smallholder farmers and build their resilience in the face of climate change by enhancing water management, leading to higher farm productivity and profitability,”
“I encourage the youth to look for educational and training opportunities in the agriculture sector to gain marketable skills that will give them employment opening in the food systems.”
“Investing in women means investing in sustainable development. The return on investment isn't just being able to beat poverty and inequality but building stronger institutions, economies and entire communities.”
Evidence consistently shows that, when rural women have equal access to opportunities in agrifood systems, their productivity increases, incomes rise, and resilience strengthens. This translates into more active rural economies overall.”
"When you want to develop, you start with the strengths you already have. In Africa, those strengths are our land, our water, and most importantly, our people,”
"We support infrastructure, we support processing, we support logistics, we support digital services, skills and more importantly finance. They connect producers to markets. They create value locally and open opportunities for Africa's innovators and entrepreneurs.”
“IFAD’s commitment to inclusive and sustainable rural transformation”
"We want it to be a learning opportunity so when this one finishes, Equity Bank can go in alone without having all of us behind it,”
“Our country has made commendable progress in food security as it improved from 48 per cent in 2006 and reached to 81.3 per cent in 2018.
"The abrupt halt and severe disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb has had immediate repercussions for fertilizers, fuel and other agricultural inputs.”
"Our own in-fact evidence has shown us that projects with a private sector participation generate income gains of over 64 percent, that is four times greater than those without the private sector,”
“The current 4th phase of the Strategic Plan for the Agriculture Transformation (PSTA4) … puts gender mainstreaming and women empowerment on the front of what’s being done along the whole agriculture value chain in Rwanda.”
“During our visit, we witnessed the tangible results IFAD’s investments have made in improving and restoring the landscape in drought-prone Kayonza and supporting small-scale farmers to improve their incomes while building their resilience to shocks.”
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