7-9 May 2024 | Nairobi, Kenya, Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) | In-person. The Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health summit will be held to deliberate on Africa’s recent widespread decades-long decline in soil quality of farmland - a phenomenon that continues today and negatively impacts the agricultural production capacity and food security in the continent.
Ji-Yeun Rim, Senior Policy Analyst at OECD, reflects on her leadership role as Co-Chair of the Thematic Working Group on Rural Youth Employment. In this interview, she shares her aspirations for the group and her own experiences on making development happen.
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the enquiry into sustainable finance in agrifood systems conducted in 2023 by the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate for Donor Platform members. The investigation included a series of interviews which explored how donors, philanthropic organizations, public funds and blended capital funds can make their funding effective and act as an incentive for achieving SDG 2.
Wondering what all those terms mean in sustainable finance in food systems and rural development? Here are some definitions of commonly used terminology and key concepts. You can find out more in the joint report by the Donor Platform and the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, which focuses on how to make donors and public funds more catalytic for food systems through sustainable and blended financing approaches.
28 March 2024 | 14:00 to 15:00 CET | Virtual. 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.
How can coordination of donor investments and collaboration be improved, particularly at the country level? What are some good practices on donor cooperation for food systems and rural development? This interview series explores some of the thinking behind these questions. Nadine Gbossa is the Director, Food Systems Coordination, IFAD and Chief, Means of Implementation, UN Food Systems Coordination Hub.
22 February 2024 | 14:00 to 15:00 CET | Virtual. Investors typically shy away from lending to smaller agricultural enterprises because the financial costs and risks often don’t match the financial returns of these investments. The first session of the SAFIN and USAID's ‘Backing the Middle’ webinar series explores this notion
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