13-17 October 2025 | FAO Rome, Italy. FAO's 80th anniversary is commemorated through a week of global dialogue, knowledge exchange and solution-driven collaboration, all guided by the theme “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future” and FAO’s four betters: better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life.
The 2025 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund will take place from Monday, 13 October to Saturday, 18 October.
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.
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.
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.
22-25 September 2025 | 10:00 to 18:00 EDT | Hybrid. The Global Flagship Initiative for Food Security will host a series of events during the Science Summit at UNGA80 in New York.
22 July 2025 | 10:00 to 12:00 EDT | Hybrid. FAO and its co-publishing partners will hold a Special Event dedicated to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report on the margins of the ECOSOC High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) and preceding the report’s launch on 28 July 2025.
The 53rd Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 53) will take place at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, from 20 to 24 October 2025.
Join the Donor Platform at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development side event, titled “Financing Agrifood Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity: Towards a new pact for mobilizing capital, reforming systems, and driving transformation at scale”. The session will take place on Monday, 30 June 2025, from 14:30 to 16:00 (CEST) with fully virtual participation.
This IFPRI Seminar, held during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings and co-organized with the World Bank, will address the ongoing global food crisis, with a focus on overcoming obstacles like conflicts, funding cuts, and inefficiencies in financing systems. Experts will explore solutions to enhance food security, strengthen value chains, and align public and private resources to tackle hunger and malnutrition.
The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development is a vibrant partnership, advocacy and knowledge network of key donors focusing on food security and rural development.
Secretariat hosted at the International Fund for Agricultural Development
Via Paolo di Dono 44, 00142 Rome, Italy
Email: protected email
