To contribute to capacity development of land professionals in Africa, the African Land Policy Centre (ALPC) has established the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa (NELGA). The network, which consists of fifty partners from leading African universities and research institutions, has developed a short-term course that focusses on “The Political Economy of

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

This official side event of the 51st plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security provides insight from donors on ways to make their funding more impactful and catalytic as well as new sources of funding. Co-organized by the GDPRD, the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Western Cape Department of Agriculture - South Africa and World Food Programme.

2014 was a crucial year for the international development community for setting the groundwork and course for various milestones of global development in 2015 and beyond. This was the case for the international community, but also for the Platform itself.

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.

Seville, 30 June 2025 - At the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), the Donor Platform hosted a high-level side event titled “Financing Agrifood Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity,” marking the launch of a new White Paper that calls for a dramatic shift in how the world invests in agrifood systems. 

2022 was an extraordinary year for the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, with a focus on transforming food systems in times of crisis, and shifting from strategy to implementation. This annual report details many of the achievements with a lens towards 2023.

Youth are the main actors in shaping a sustainable food system transformation and rural youth employment has direct links to a broad spectrum of thematic areas in development cooperation. This makes it one of the keys to achieving the SDGs, and in particular SDG2. Co-Chairs Frank Bertelmann and Sven Braulik from GIZ, and

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

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