Events

  • IFAD Governing Council: 48th Session

    12-13 February 2025 | Rome, Italy. The 48th Session of the IFAD Governing Council. The 2025 overarching theme is “Catalysing Investment at the 1st Mile”. Spanning five regions and 92 countries of investment, IFAD focuses on those who are otherwise left behind: marginalized and vulnerable people living in rural areas.

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  • Webinar by SAFIN, Marketlinks, Aceli Africa: Nudging the local financial marketplace

    8 May 2024 | 14:00 to 15:00 CET | Virtual. Explore how financial incentives like guarantees or first loss can inspire local banks to support agripreneurs. This is the third and final webinar of the series ‘Backing the Middle’ organized by SAFIN and Marketlinks (USAID).

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  • Webinar: Combatting hunger and poverty through rural youth employment

    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.

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  • Global Report on Food Crisis 2024 Launch

    24 April 2024, 14:00-15:30 CEST | Sheikh Zayed Centre, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy | Hybrid. The Global Network Against Food Crises is hosting a high-level launch ceremony for their critical report, the Global Report on Food Crises 2024. This annual publication, compiled by the Food Security Information Network, unveils the latest statistics on acute hunger and malnutrition plaguing people in crisis-prone regions.

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  • Annual General Assembly 2023

    The 2023 Annual General Assembly took place on 26-27 October 2023, and coincided with the Donor Platform’s 20th anniversary, a milestone reflected in the theme “20 Years of rural development and aid effectiveness: Where are we now and where are we going?”.

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  • CFS 51 Side Event 03: Innovative approaches to sustainable finance for food systems transformation

    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.

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  • Annual General Assembly 2023 – Session 4

    AGA 2023 Session 4 | 27 October, 13:50-15:20 (CET) | Leveraging change for rural youth employment and food systems transformation

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  • Annual General Assembly 2023 – Main Session

    AGA 2023 Main Session | 26 October, 9:30-17:00 CET | Food System Approaches and Shifting Development Agendas in Agriculture and Rural Development

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