Events
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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3 NOVEMBER 2022, 11:00-14:00 EAT | VIRTUAL Links In 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations (FAO) and the African Women in
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29 NOVEMBER 2022 | 8:00-15:00 EST | Virtual Links Impact evaluations of land governance interventions have shown to be a critical tool for the design of more
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30 NOVEMBER AND 1 DECEMBER 2022 | 9:00-10:30 EST | Virtual Links Impact evaluations are critical for understanding whether program and policy interventions are working, why, and
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Declining rates of official development assistance (ODA) have propelled donor countries to employ innovative ways to attract more private sector investments to agriculture, notably through blended finance. Join the discussion on where donors think concessional capital is best utilized.
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Agro-food Jobs for Youth in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia: A webinar by the Thematic Working Group on Rural Youth Employment.
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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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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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The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development organised its AGA 2018, "Young and ready to move - empowering the new generation in the rural space", with the support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the African Development Bank (AfDB). The background to the thematic discussions was the Rural Youth Employment Initiative, to which governments and heads of states voted on at the G20 summit in 2017. This historic vote signalled a clear political commitment of the international community to improve the efforts to empower youth in rural areas.
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PLATFORM | 13. – 14. JUNE 2018 | BERLIN, GERMANY "Young and ready to move – empowering the new generation in the rural space" Download
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