The report highlights the urgent need to strengthen food system resilience in the face of growing environmental, political and economic challenges. It offers focused, action-oriented policy recommendations to help build food systems that can withstand future shocks and stresses.
Explore the updated OECD DAC Blended Finance Guidance, a practical tool to scale high-quality blended finance and mobilize private investment for sustainable development.
UNDP is working with over 170 countries and territories for a better future. This report highlights UNDP’s progress under the Strategic Plan (2022 to 2025), showing how partnerships are driving real-world results.
Equitable public and private financing is crucial for building resilient and sustainable food systems. The 2024 Annual Report by the the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), highlights the transformative impacts of these investments on food systems across developing countries like Honduras, Zambia and Cambodia.
This policy brief, “Cuts in official development assistance: OECD projections for 2025 and the near term”, examines the question of where cuts to official development assistance (ODA) may fall.
This year's report documents how high food price inflation is associated with increases in food insecurity and child malnutrition. Vulnerable groups, including low-income households, women, and rural communities, can be particularly affected by food price inflation, risking setbacks in the fight against
hunger and malnutrition.
This FAO publication explores how a systems approach can be effectively applied across agrifood systems. Also highlights real-world examples of how countries, regions and municipalities are successfully integrating these shifts into practice.
The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development’s Thematic Working Group on Sustainable/Blended Finance for Food Systems, in partnership with the Agri-SME Learning Collective (ASLC), is pleased to share the key findings from phase one pilot testing of the Catalytic Capital Framework.
The year 2024 marked the end of IFAD’s 2022–2024 project cycle. By the end of 2024, IFAD had delivered US$3.336 billion in funding for new projects, representing 99.5 per cent of its target. These new investments respond to a challenging global context, one in which progress in eliminating hunger has stalled.
The OECD proposes a systemic approach grounded in better data, more and better development finance, and supportive policy environments. Achieving this will require bold political leadership and international coordination. This paper sets the foundation to turn the promise of private capital into tangible outcomes for people, the planet, and prosperity.
The world's agrifood systems stand at a crossroads. With 1.3 billion youth globally, the future of food, livelihoods, and economic resilience depends on their participation in agrifood systems. At the same time, agrifood systems need youth to drive productivity, innovation, and sustainability in a crucial and rapidly evolving sector. FAO's "The Status of Youth in Agrifood Systems" report is a call to action.