This report captures key insights from the Donor Platform’s 2025 Annual General Assembly, hosted by the European Commission in Brussels. , The discussions focused on how development partners can continue to support agrifood systems effectively in a changing landscape.
In a time of shrinking aid budgets and growing geopolitical fragmentation, financing agrifood systems requires stronger coordination and catalytic action. The 2025 Annual Report shows how the Global Donor Platform helped move the agenda forward — from convening donors to shaping the global debate on financing agrifood systems.
The global community needs a new financing model that aligns public and private capital, leverages innovation and positions agrifood systems at the centre of sustainable development. This White Paper outlines a bold yet practical agenda to unlock the capital, partnerships, and innovation needed to drive change at scale.
Using innovative approaches to finance the future of food was the key theme and focus of the Platform’s activities in 2024. This year’s report highlights the crucial role of official development assistance (ODA), innovative blended finance, and private sector collaboration in transforming food systems and revitalizing rural development globally.
The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) releases its 2024 Annual General Assembly (AGA) report, titled Financing Food Systems Transformation and Rural Revitalization: Opportunities and Challenges. The emerging messages are especially significant in light of the rapidly evolving donor environment, and underscore the urgent need to rethink the financing agenda for 2025 and beyond.
The year 2023 marked the Donor Platform’s 20th anniversary and the report highlights the activities and results in catalysing change and harmonizing impact. Highlights include a focus on sustainable and blended financing for SDG 2, stronger collaboration among donors for greater impact, and better data systems for food systems and rural development.
2022 was an extraordinary year for the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, with a focus on transforming food systems in times of crisis, and shifting from strategy to implementation. This annual report details many of the achievements with a lens towards 2023.
2021 was an eventful year for the Platform, both at an operational level within the Secretariat and with external engagement. The Platform created a new Strategic Plan for the 2021–2025 period and a results-based work plan for the year.
In 2020, the Platform continued to play a more effective and strategic influencing role in response to the shifting development agenda under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the related changing donor landscape.
2019 was an important year for the Platform, as it adapted its structure and function in light of the new paradigm under Agenda 2030, which has shifted the donor landscape by changing the nature of challenges and future uncertainties
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