Events
IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings 13-18 April 2026 | Washington D.C.
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This CFS53 Side Event will reaffirm the importance to double down global efforts to transform agrifood systems and strengthen multilateralism amid mounting global, declining ODA and weakening international cooperation. It will spotlight agrifood systems transformation as key to prosperity, well-being and global security. Co-organized by the GDPRD, FAO, and IFAD.
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30 September 2025 | 14:00-15:00 CET | On Zoom. Join the ILO, EU, IFAD, and WFF for a dynamic webinar on rural youth employment, exploring policies and solutions to unlock decent work opportunities through agrifood systems. Hosted on the YouthForesight platform, the event brings together global experts and youth voices driving change.
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With major donors reducing development aid, the global development community is under pressure to do more with less. Speakers will explore how emerging financing mechanisms can contribute to youth employment creation. This is a webinar by the GDPRD's Thematic Working Group on Rural Youth Employment.
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16 October 2025 | Virtual on Zoom. The launch of the Youth Workstream of the Global Flagship Initiative for Food Security is a milestone moment to empower young leaders in driving global action for sustainable, inclusive, and resilient food systems. Maurizio Navarra, Secretariat Coordinator of the GDPRD, will speak at the event during the "From Promise to Delivery - Partner Perspectives" session.
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This CFS53 Side Event (SE26), presents the GDPRD’s Thematic Working Group on Sustainable/Blended Finance and the new Catalytic Capital Framework with testing insights from donors to support more consistent assessment of impact and additionality in agri-SME blended finance. The event is co-organized by the GDPRD, IFAD, and the Agri-SME Learning Collective.
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UN Women: 69th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women
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The 2nd United Nations Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4) will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from July 28-30, 2025. Building on the momentum of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit and the first Stocktaking Moment in 2023 (UNFSS+2), this event will focus on accelerating sustainable, inclusive, and resilient food systems transformation.
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15-17 June 2025 | Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada Links For the seventh time, Canada assumed the Presidency of the G7 from January 1 until December 31, 2025. The
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The UNESCO Chair on World Food Systems Annual Symposium this year focuses on African food systems — their innovation, variety, food sovereignty, and the ways in which the agrifood sector responds to demographic, economic, climatic and health trends.
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