Events

  • UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake (UNFSS+4)

    The 2nd United Nations Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4) will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from July 28-30, 2025. Building on the momentum of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit and the first Stocktaking Moment in 2023 (UNFSS+2), this event will focus on accelerating sustainable, inclusive, and resilient food systems transformation.

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  • The Eighth Global Meeting of the Farmers’ Forum

    The 2024 global Farmers’ Forum brings together more than 80 farmers' leaders from around the world, representing millions of smallholders and rural producers who work with IFAD and partner institutions.

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  • IFAD: Forty-seventh session of the Governing Council

    The Governing Council is IFAD’s main decision-making body. It consists of all of IFAD’s Member States and meets annually. It is attended by the official Member State representatives, i.e. Governors, Alternate Governors and any other designated advisers. Observers are also invited to attend sessions.

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  • AGA 2020 – Event 2

    AGA Session 2 - 3 November 2020: Pathways for food systems transformation. Shaping the GDPRD’s contribution to the Food Systems Summit.

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  • AGA 2020 – High-Level Session

    The high-level event, Transforming food systems: Implications for coordination and financing, introduced the upcoming Food Systems Summit and raised key issues related to the Action Tracks, and explored their implications for donors.

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  • 2019 Annual General Assembly

    From 19-21 June, the 2019 Annual General Assembly (AGA) brought together more than 40 participants, Platform members and partners, in Zurich/Maennedorf, Switzerland. After many years of thematically focused AGAs, this year’s edition was conceptualised as an inward-focused Members‘ retreat, intended to inspire members to reflect on and leverage their unique strengths in the rural development space, in particular in light of a thoroughly changing environment.

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  • AGA 2018 – Day 2

    Connecting the dots: employment, youth empowerment and development effectiveness in the rural space. The tone of the thematic discussions of the second day of the AGA 2018 was set by the keynote speech about “Strategic Framing of Youth Empowerment – What is needed in the future?”. The links between the future of agriculture, the transformation of rural areas and the commitment of the donor and development community to enable young people to live a decent and meaningful life were the focus of the two-panel discussions during the high-level forum. First, the focus was on the young farmers and the decent rural employment.

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