INTERVIEWS AND PODCASTS
The latest interviews and podcasts on issues pertinent to the vision and mission of the Platform.
INTERVIEWS AND PODCASTS
The latest interviews and podcasts on issues pertinent to the vision and mission of the Platform.
For the GDPRD’s working group on rural youth employment, new co-chair Leonard Mizzi (European Commission) joins Genna Tesdall, who brings the youth-led perspective of YPARD. With this "intergenerational" leadership, the group is shifting its focus from "process" to "purpose”.
In this interview, Corinna Hawkes, Director of Agrifood Systems and Food Safety at the FAO, highlights the urgent need and opportunity for donors to adopt systems-based approaches that can lead to real, lasting change in agrifood systems.
Learn how Norway is advancing food systems transformation through agri-SME finance, donor collaboration, and partnerships like the Financing for Agri-SMEs in Africa (FASA). He also highlights the GDPRD’s role in setting shared standards through its Thematic Working Group on Sustainable/Blended Finance.
Tim Diphoorn, European Director of Business Development at One Acre Fund, shares why we need to think differently about funding in rural development.




