The Secretariat spoke with both co-chairs ahead of this week’s Senior Managers’ Meeting and the High-Level Food Systems event. Tristan Armstrong Senior Sector Specialist, Agricultural Development and Food Security, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) – Australia CONTACT | CO-CHAIR Tristan Armstrong,

2003–2023 20th Anniversary In 2023, the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development celebrated 20 years of bringing donors together. This milestone is reflected in the theme of this year’s Annual General Assembly (AGA) “20 Years of rural development and aid effectiveness: Where are we now and where we are going?” which took place

The high-level event, Transforming food systems: Implications for coordination and financing, introduced the upcoming Food Systems Summit and raised key issues related to the Action Tracks, and explored their implications for donors.

Agriculture and food security remain high on Switzerland’s development priorities. Cooperation is key to balancing emergency assistance with building long-term resilience, both crucial to ensure people’s livelihoods are never at stake. Meet our GDPRD Board member Bruce Campbell of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

From 15-19 October 2018, the 45th session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS45) took place at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. More than 1,600 delegates, representing CFS Members, non-Member States, UN agencies and bodies, civil society and private sector organisations, international finance and research organisations, philanthropic foundations and observers attended session. Members

Tristan Armstrong, Co-Chair of the Donor Platform from 2021 to 2023 on behalf of Australia, looks back on his tenure through global crises and a milestone anniversary.

13 May 2024, 13:00-14:30 CEST | OECD Development Centre and German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development | Virtual. This webinar offers a timely opportunity to reflect on efforts made by G20 countries and international organisations as well as the civil society to spur job creation for rural. Participants will discuss how to scale up effective approaches to support rural development policies and better respond to developing countries’ priorities.

Conrad Rein, the outgoing Co-Chair of the Donor Platform, reflects upon the pivotal moments and future pathways that have marked his three-year tenure.

What We Do Our work sits at the intersection of a set of critical global issues that have a profound impact on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and longer-term human prosperity and security.  The Platform strives towards these goals by convening donor organizations that make substantive investments in agriculture, rural development

What makes an agricultural development policy contemporary? What are the key components for agriculture that feeds current and future generations without overstretching planetary boundaries? Questions like these were at the were at the heart of a lecture by renowned academic and ODI’s Principal Research Fellow Dr. Steve Wiggins that was held on 10 April