The Platform provides a discussion forum for programmatic and institutional innovations and donor priorities in line with 2030 Agenda. The focus is on several different areas that address the dramatically changing rural transformation processes. By highlighting specific dynamics we aim to match opportunities of donor agencies and international finance institutions. Ultimately the work of the Platform supports the creation of more synergies that contribute to the implementation of the SDGs and to an inclusive rural transformation process.
Agenda
2030
About Agenda 2030
Agriculture and rural development would need to be leveraged within a broader approach that addresses sustainable and inclusive rural transformation processes using the framework provided by Agenda 2030.
Implications of Agenda 2030 for rural development
Bonn | Germany| 12 Jan 2017 | The Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, the replacement of the MDGs by the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change created a new framework for development policy – Agenda2030.
Climate
Change
About Climate Change
COP21 opened a window of opportunity to jointly address agriculture and climate change. The workstream provides a focused convening forum to discuss the positioning of agriculture in climate change policies and programming.
COP21 – the future of agriculture and food security.
Online | 12 Jan 2016 | In the Paris climate agreement the issue of food security was explicitly mentioned in relation to climate change. Countries have also committed to work on linking agriculture and climate change through adaptation and mitigation.
Gender
About Gender
The gender workstream of the Platform works towards strengthening gender equality through selected initiatives that foster transparency, responsibility and accountability by all stakeholders in line with the SDGs.
Youth and agriculture, what should donors know?
Online | 15 Nov 2016 | Donors should do more to promote “agropreneurship” to ensure youth participation in agriculture, use of ICT to promote agriculture and promote networking, knowledge and information sharing amongst rural and urban youth.
Land
governance
About Land Governance
The Global Working Group on Land is committed to increase the coordination and knowledge exchange on land governance programmes and jointly advocate the relevance of land issues in policy processes which affect international development.
Working group on Land Policy Briefs
With the policy briefs the working group presents for example the members’ coordinated initiatives to implement the VGGT, but also advocates for critical land indicators in the SDGs.
CAADP
About CAADP
The Platform engages in CAADP and the Development Partners Coordination Group as an opportunity for donors to cooperate at global, regional and national levels in line with the Malabo Declaration and Implementation Strategy and Roadmap to achieve the 2025 vision on CAADP.
Development Partners Coordination Group
The DPCG provides a forum for discussions and coordination amongst donors and partners. Partners use DPCG to share information and establish common principles and practices in CAADP implementation on every level.
Agribusiness
and Trade
About Inclusive Agribusiness and Trade
The two working groups focus respectively on policy coherence between trade and agriculture and small-business market approaches as driver of economic and social development, while searching for matching opportunities and synergies.
ValueLinks 2.0 – concentrating on business models
Online | 26 Jul 2016 | The new ValueLinks 2.0 publication offers an overview over different methods to address economic development from a value-chain perspective. The presentation focuses on the business model approach to enhance income and employment.
Nutrition
About Nutrition
The members of the workstream agreed to focus on nutrition-sensitive agriculture, as it is an approach that maximises agriculture’s contribution to nutritionally rich foods, dietary diversity and food fortification.
Platform hosts virtual briefing on nutrition sensitive agriculture
Bonn | Germany | 11 Jul 2016 | The webinar examines the state of the art in nutrition-sensitive agriculture both from a conceptual point of view and regarding its translation into practice.
A new emerging rural world – an overview of rural change in Africa
CIRAD and NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa’s Development) published a new and revised edition of the atlas “A new and emerging rural world”.
In 2016, the Platform raised its profile in the international fora on agriculture and rural development during the first year of SDG implementation as called for in its newly approved Strategic Plan 2016-2020.
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