International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nation's agency for extending soft loans to countries for agricultural development projects, and World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid organization of the United Nations have entered into a partnership in India to synergise their activities towards the common goals of poverty eradication and food security. 

While IFAD has no field presence in the country, WFP has over the years acquired considerable operating strength through the network of its own offices, its institutional partners in the central and state governments and its many community based and NGO collaborators.