26-27 November 2024 | IFAD HQ, Rome Italy and Zoom
Financing Food Systems Transformation and Rural Revitalization: Opportunities and Challenges
The 2024 Annual General Assembly (AGA) will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday 26-27 November 2024, at the headquarters of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, Italy and online.
AGA 2024 sessions
Background
This year’s AGA theme, “Financing Food Systems Transformation and Rural Revitalization: Opportunities and Challenges”, will focus on how the international community is rethinking how to best use the limited official development assistance (ODA) in food and nutrition, in particular using innovative financing, better coordination of donor approaches, and stronger harmonization of stakeholder engagement.
The AGA will build on the recommendations of the 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report for donors, and the urgent need to bridge financing gaps for food systems.
The two days will provide opportunities for knowledge exchange, networking and convening, and timely discussions on rural development and will include reflections on the implications of innovative financing for rural youth employment and land governance.
Read the AGA concept note for more information. Speaker names will be updated in due course.
| Agenda | |
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| Day 1: Tuesday, 26 November, 8:30-17:30 CET | |
| 8:30–9:00 | Welcome coffee |
| 9:00-9:05 | Welcome by GDPRD Secretariat |
| 9:05-9:10 | Opening by GDPRD Chairs |
| 9:10-9:30 | Keynote Address |
| 9:30-10:30 | Background and Scene Setting |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:30 | High-Level Session: Catalytic Development Finance for a Sustainable and Resilient Future |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 | Breakout Sessions: Drawing on the morning sessions, participants will pinpoint critical factors hindering or facilitating the effective utilization of donor resources, and the merits and synergies of different funding modalities to advance food systems transformation and rural development.
Thematic Discussion Areas Theme 1: Climate finance Theme 2: Unlocking private capital for food systems transformation Theme 3: Improving financing approaches for agri-food SMEs Theme 4: Innovative financing in fragile contexts |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00–16:30 | Report-Back from Breakout Sessions: Moderated session with speakers and rapporteurs from the breakout sessions |
| 16:30-17:30 | Innovative Financing Approaches for Young Agriprenuers: Organized by the Thematic Working Group on Rural Youth Employment |
| 17:30 | End of Day 1 |
| Agenda | |
|---|---|
| Day 2: Wednesday, 27 November, 8:30-1300 CET | |
| 8:30–9:00 | Welcome coffee |
| 9:00-9:15 | Recap of AGA Day One |
| 9:15-10:00 | Finance Coordination: Linkages with other global development financing discussions
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| 10:00-11:15 | Reaching Indigenous Peoples and local communities through enhanced access to finance: Organized by the Global Donor Working Group on Land |
| 11:15-11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:50 | High-Level Synthesis Panel: Implications of the AGA discussions on finance and GDPRD future directions |
| 12:50-13:00 | AGA Closing |
| 13:00 | End of Day 2 |
