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Youth Workstream Launch of the Global Flagship Initiative for Food Security
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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CFS 53 Side Event SE26 – Blended Finance and Impact Measurement in Agrifood Systems: The Catalytic Capital Framework
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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2025 World Food Forum Flagship Event
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.
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IMF-World Bank: Annual Meetings 2025 | 13-18 October 2025
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.
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CFS 53 Side Event SE32 – Financing Agrifood Systems Transformation: Aligning multilateral, public and private investments
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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ILO: Innovative Solutions for Rural Youth Employment: Policy and Practice
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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Webinar – Development Finance for Youth in a Changing Landscape
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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Global Flagship Initiative for Food Security at the Science Summit 2025
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.
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Special Event on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025
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.
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53rd Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 53)
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.
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