Events

  • Annual General Assembly 2025

    The 2025 Annual General Assembly will focus on "Investing in the Future of Agrifood Systems: New directions for development finance". The sessions will explore how agrifood systems can be financed into the future and what this means for donors in a rapidly changing development landscape. A fresh rethink is needed to ensure financing matches the scale of the challenges ahead.

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  • FAO: Empowering Youth to End Child Labour in Agriculture

    16 October 2024 | FAO Rome, Italy. World Food Forum side-event on Empowering youth to end child labour in agriculture

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  • Webinar: Financing Food and Rural Development

    The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development is organizing a series of webinars to help development actors better understand development finance and donor approaches. The second seminar will present and discuss the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) Report 2024 and implications for donors and development partners

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  • Webinar: Green Jobs for Rural Youth

    Agriculture and food systems need to transform in ways that produce sustainable and inclusive practices and outcomes, including more and better jobs for young women and men. Promoting green jobs for and with rural youth can contribute to such a transformation, while helping address the underemployment crisis and acknowledging and further engaging youth in agriculture, food and associated sectors.

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  • The Increasing Imperative for Resilient Food Systems in Times of Conflict and Crisis: What Can Donors Do?

    A high-level event to discuss how donors can collectively respond to the skyrocketing food prices and the conflict in Ukraine. The Platform's white paper on "Transforming Food Systems - Directions for Enhancing the Catalytic Role of Donors" was presented as a menu of options for donor engagement in food systems transformation.

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  • Youth Forum. Covid-19 Recovery: Youth Taking Action for a Sustainable Future

    The Youth Forum will address the theme of ECOSOC and the 2022 UN High-level Political Forum on sustainable development (HLPF) on “Building back better from COVID- 19 while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda.” It will also review progress in the areas of quality education (SDG4), gender equality (SDG5), life below water (SDG14), life on land (SDG15) and partnerships for the goals (SDG17).

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  • Transforming Food Systems for Rural Prosperity: How Do Nutrition and Environment Fit In?

    This is the second of the series of debates to discuss key actions and recommendations from the RDR. If and why they are relevant, what are the obstacles and barriers encountered to achieve desirable transformation and what are the opportunities and potential benefits to achieve equitable, sustainable, healthy, and environmentally friendly food systems that work for everyone especially people in rural areas.

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