The 2023/24 Annual Progress Report from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). This annual report and accounts provides detail on the activities of the FCDO during financial year 2023 to 2024.
An interview with the Co-Chairs of the new GDPRD Thematic Working Group on Sustainable and Blended Finance for Food Systems, Tuleen Alkhoffash of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Songbae Lee of the USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security.
World Rural Forum report at the midpoint of the UN Decade on Family Farming (UNDFF), assessing five years of implementation.
The UNCCD report 'Women-Led Solutions for Drought Resilience’ showcases women-led solutions for building drought resilience, and was launched on the International Day of Rural Women by UNCCD and FAO.
The ‘Quest for healthy diets’ publication sums up FAO’s work to improve nutrition levels structurally, by way of data, evidence, innovation and convening power for the collective goal to ensure all people have access to culturally appropriate healthy food.
What are some innovative and cross-sector ideas with the potential to make a difference in food systems financing? Read the summary blog of the webinar "Financing Food and Rural Development" on 26 September 2024 and co-hosted by the Donor Platform and the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate.
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On 1 October 2024, Devex published an opinion article “How blended finance can catalyse private capital for agriculture” authored by GDPRD Co-Chairs Federica de Gaetano (Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, AICS) and Bruce Campbell (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, SDC).
The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) is pleased to welcome the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as its newest member.
The GDPRD Secretariat is pleased to announce its latest working group dedicated to sustainable and blended finance for food systems. We are delighted to introduce the Co-Chairs of this new working group, Tuleen Alkhoffash of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Songbae Lee of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). They will guide the group for the two-year term (2024-2026).
This International Growth Centre (IGC) evidence review maps the existing body of practitioner and academic evidence on lending to agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises in developing economies and identifies research and learning priorities to fill key gaps.
This publication highlights the latest in a series of country change stories connecting global agrifood systems discourse to specific realities in Côte d’Ivoire, Cambodia, the Pacific, Guatemala and Albania, to demystify some of the terms involved and make sense of what they mean at country level.
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