Our Focus
Strategic Objectives
Rebuilding food systems and developing rural areas requires ideas, actors and finance. The Platform brings together these necessary elements so that donors can develop and implement programmes that help rural people improve their lives and livelihoods.
Our Focus
Strategic Objectives
Rebuilding food systems and developing rural areas requires ideas, actors and finance. The Platform brings together these necessary elements so that donors can develop and implement programmes that help rural people improve their lives and livelihoods.
The platform strategy has three distinct yet complementary elements: strategic influencing, knowledge sharing and networking and convening.
Strategic Influencing
We help shape the thinking, policies and programming of the global donor community about food systems and rural development to accelerate progress towards the SDGs and longer-term prosperity and sustainability.
Knowledge Sharing
We broker the sharing of evidence, lessons, insights and technical expertise necessary for donors to align efforts, learn from each other and improve the impact of their food system and rural-development related policies and programmes.
Networking and Convening
We strengthen networking, relationships and communication between donors and other actors as a foundation for collaboration and innovation.
Our Strategic Plan 2021-2025
In 2021, the Platform adopted a new vision that advocates a radical transformation of global food systems to achieve better access to safe and nutritious food, improved environmental sustainability and more prosperous rural communities.
The Strategic Plan 2021-2025 situates the work of the Platform across the domains of food systems, food and nutrition security, agriculture and rural livelihoods. It recognizes the Platform’s particular focus and orientation towards SDG 2 and the intersection with other SDGs.
While staying true to the original intent and purpose of the Platform, the Strategic Plan actions changes to the its vision, mission and objectives to better reflect the changing operating context and environment of the donor community to ensure its ongoing relevance.
The platform strategy has three distinct yet complementary elements: strategic influencing, knowledge sharing and networking and convening.
Strategic Influencing
We help shape the thinking, policies and programming of the global donor community about food systems and rural development to accelerate progress towards the SDGs and longer-term prosperity and sustainability.
Knowledge Sharing
We broker the sharing of evidence, lessons, insights and technical expertise necessary for donors to align efforts, learn from each other and improve the impact of their food system and rural-development related policies and programmes.
Networking and Convening
We strengthen networking, relationships and communication between donors and other actors as a foundation for collaboration and innovation.
Our Strategic Plan 2021-2025
In 2021, the Platform adopted a new vision that advocates a radical transformation of global food systems to achieve better access to safe and nutritious food, improved environmental sustainability and more prosperous rural communities.
The Strategic Plan 2021-2025 situates the work of the Platform across the domains of food systems, food and nutrition security, agriculture and rural livelihoods. It recognizes the Platform’s particular focus and orientation towards SDG 2 and the intersection with other SDGs.
While staying true to the original intent and purpose of the Platform, the Strategic Plan actions changes to the its vision, mission and objectives to better reflect the changing operating context and environment of the donor community to ensure its ongoing relevance.
The Platform in Action
Key messages from the UNFSS+2 official side event: Innovative donor approaches to sustainable finance for food systems transformation
In a candid conversation, Conrad Rein, the outgoing Co-Chair of the Donor Platform, reflects upon the pivotal moments and future pathways that have marked his three-year tenure.
Jaron Porciello is Co-Director of Hesat2030, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame. and a close partner of the Donor Platform. Jaron shares her insights on the present and future of artificial intelligence in rural development.
2022 was an extraordinary year for the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, with a focus on transforming food systems in times of crisis, and shifting from strategy to implementation. This annual report details many of the achievements with a lens towards 2023.
Please join us in welcoming the World Rural Forum as a Member of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development and with WRF Director Laura Lorenzo as their representative.
Jo Puri is the Associate Vice-President of Strategy and Knowledge Department at IFAD and a close partner of the Donor Platform. Jo shares her vast experience and insight on all things data and how standard use of good data could be the game-changer in transforming food systems.
Final report of the findings and deliberations from the event “Assessing the Data ‘Quantum’ Leap in Agriculture and Food Systems: s” held on 13 February 2023 at IFAD Headquarters.
Key messages from the UNFSS+2 official side event: Innovative donor approaches to sustainable finance for food systems transformation
In a candid conversation, Conrad Rein, the outgoing Co-Chair of the Donor Platform, reflects upon the pivotal moments and future pathways that have marked his three-year tenure.
Jaron Porciello is Co-Director of Hesat2030, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame. and a close partner of the Donor Platform. Jaron shares her insights on the present and future of artificial intelligence in rural development.
2022 was an extraordinary year for the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, with a focus on transforming food systems in times of crisis, and shifting from strategy to implementation. This annual report details many of the achievements with a lens towards 2023.
Please join us in welcoming the World Rural Forum as a Member of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development and with WRF Director Laura Lorenzo as their representative.
Jo Puri is the Associate Vice-President of Strategy and Knowledge Department at IFAD and a close partner of the Donor Platform. Jo shares her vast experience and insight on all things data and how standard use of good data could be the game-changer in transforming food systems.
Final report of the findings and deliberations from the event “Assessing the Data ‘Quantum’ Leap in Agriculture and Food Systems: s” held on 13 February 2023 at IFAD Headquarters.
