The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) releases its 2024 Annual General Assembly (AGA) report, titled Financing Food Systems Transformation and Rural Revitalization: Opportunities and Challenges. The emerging messages are especially significant in light of the rapidly evolving donor environment, and underscore the urgent need to rethink the financing agenda for 2025 and beyond.

A high-level event to discuss how donors can collectively respond to the skyrocketing food prices and the conflict in Ukraine. The Platform's white paper on "Transforming Food Systems - Directions for Enhancing the Catalytic Role of Donors" was presented as a menu of options for donor engagement in food systems transformation.

This independent Food Systems event is a contribution to ensure donors and their partners collaborate to realize the full leveraging potential of donor funding. The event will also launched the GDPRD stocktaking report on “Donor contributions to food systems”.

The Secretariat spoke with both co-chairs ahead of this week’s Senior Managers’ Meeting and the High-Level Food Systems event. Conrad Rein Policy Officer, Sustainable Agri-Food systems and Fisheries, European Commission CONTACT | CO-CHAIR Conrad Rein, European Commission, shares his thoughts on why donors play

As the lockdowns continue worldwide and impacts of Covid-19 keep unfolding, policymakers have not only been put under pressure to make quick decisions, but also to justify their support to agriculture (as well as other sectors) from an emergency perspective. To act responsibly under the pressure of urgency, donor agencies must gain access to

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) organised a joint event on 21 October in Berlin to build on IFAD’s 2019 Rural Development Report - Creating employment opportunities for rural youth. Links

The central aim of this fifth CFS plenary session was to prepare proposals for the CFS Multi‐Year Programme of Work (MYPoW) for 2020‐2023 and decide on the theme of the HLPE report in 2020 based on a proposal from CFS Bureau in collaboration with the Advisory Group. However, the session, dedicated to hearing CFS

Rome, Italy - October 2017 On 9 October the Platform's Global Donor Working Group on Land organised a side event at the Committee on World Food Security in Rome to draw attention to this still little understood phenomenon. Speakers of this side event included: Jesse Coleman (legal researcher at Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment),

Hamburg, Germany - July 2017 In the Leaders Declaration issued after the G20 meeting in Hamburg, four policy priorities directly relate to agriculture and rural development. Next to fostering innovation and ensuring sustainable and resilient financial system, the G20 leaders commit to fulfilling the Paris agreement on climate change (N-1), boost employment and in

Bonn, Germany - 22 September 2016 New momentum for rural transformation Links The central idea behind Agenda 2030 of developing an integrated framework that is universal and addresses the “world as a whole” has resulted in a very comprehensive but complex agenda. While