IFAD at the 2021 Food Systems Pre-Summit IFAD Asset Request Portlet 26 - 28 July 2021 This three-day Pre-Summit will bring together the efforts and contributions of the global engagement process designed to give shape to our ambitions to transform our food systems. It will bring together youth, small-scale farmers, Indigenous Peoples, researchers, private sector representatives, policy leaders, and ministers of agriculture, environment, health, and finance, among others, to contribute the latest evidence-based and scientific approaches from around the world, launch a set of new commitments through coalitions of action, and mobilize new financing and partnerships. The Food Systems Summit will take place in September alongside the UN General Assembly in New York.