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The Food Systems Architecture Database shows the global landscape of organizations and key initiatives working in food systems and agricultural development.

Explore key international reports in the Food Systems Recommendations Database and use their policy recommendations in your work.

Latest Features

  • FAO: The Status of Youth in Agrifood Systems

    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.

  • Podcast | Agnes Johan, Rabo Partnerships

    Agnes Johan, Head of Blended Finance at Rabo Partnerships, shares why food systems must become a global priority and the surprising progress emerging market banks are making on sustainability. From her roots in agricultural economics to her passion for blended finance, she offers a grounded, hopeful vision for impactful change.

  • FAO: Launch of Financing for Shock-Driven Food Crises (FSFC) Facility

    The FSFC is led by FAO with technical contribution of WFP and UN OCHA. It aims to close the gap between humanitarian funding and early actions by focusing on anticipatory financing using scientific triggers. FSFC was supported and endorsed by the G7 Leaders in June 2024 and included in G7 Apulia Leaders’ Communiqué, as well as by the G7 Development Ministers gathered in Pescara, in October 2024.

Meet the Platform

Meet the Platform

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development is a vibrant partnership, advocacy and knowledge network of key donors focusing on food security and rural development.

Our Members and Partners

Our Members and Partners

Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust

We are facing unprecedented challenges. In a world of growing uncertainty, we need to produce more and better food for a growing population and ensure it is accessible to all, breaking the barriers that exclude millions from access. We will only cope with these challenges by returning to the principle of diversity in our food systems.

Stefan Schmitz, Crop Trust

We are facing unprecedented challenges. In a world of growing uncertainty, we need to produce more and better food for a growing population and ensure it is accessible to all, breaking the barriers that exclude millions from access. We will only cope with these challenges by returning to the principle of diversity in our food systems.

Bruce Campbell, Switzerland

We have to be careful we do not gamble with people’s livelihoods. Food system transformation has to be taken in incremental steps with positive proofs of concept rather than through ideology.

Bruce Campbell, Switzerland

We have to be careful we do not gamble with people’s livelihoods. Food system transformation has to be taken in incremental steps with positive proofs of concept rather than through ideology.

H.E. Jeanine M. Cooper, Republic of Liberia

Impact … is not felt at the level of beautiful documents that are shared, but in how you move the needle and shift the reality of the lives of rural people and all of the people in the food systems.

H.E. Jeanine M. Cooper, Republic of Liberia

Impact … is not felt at the level of beautiful documents that are shared, but in how you move the needle and shift the reality of the lives of rural people and all of the people in the food systems.

Lee Ann Jackson, OECD

What’s shifted over the years is the recognition that to change agriculture and food, you must adopt a food systems approach. We’re asking the sector to feed the world. It must be environmentally sustainable and ensure livelihoods for all food systems actors.

Lee Ann Jackson, OECD

What’s shifted over the years is the recognition that to change agriculture and food, you must adopt a food systems approach. We’re asking the sector to feed the world. It must be environmentally sustainable and ensure livelihoods for all food systems actors.

Federica De Gaetano, Italy

The Donor Platform’s commitment to information sharing and member updates has contributed to a significant level of alignment and cooperation on rural development and food security issues.

Federica De Gaetano, Italy

The Donor Platform’s commitment to information sharing and member updates has contributed to a significant level of alignment and cooperation on rural development and food security issues.

Ron Hartman, IFAD

We need to find ways of building resilience because we can’t afford, as a global community, a continued sort of humanitarian and emergency support. We try and catalyse our investments to influence policy to have an even greater impact on promoting sustainable food system transformation.

Ron Hartman, IFAD

We need to find ways of building resilience because we can’t afford, as a global community, a continued sort of humanitarian and emergency support. We try and catalyse our investments to influence policy to have an even greater impact on promoting sustainable food system transformation.

Elisabeth Simelton, Sida

We are now concentrated on solving the immediate crises, but there will be another crisis coming. It is important to maintain a long-term perspective and also deal with the root causes to hunger and malnutrition.

Elisabeth Simelton, Sida

We are now concentrated on solving the immediate crises, but there will be another crisis coming. It is important to maintain a long-term perspective and also deal with the root causes to hunger and malnutrition.

Máximo Torero, FAO

If I can produce a harvest, I can feed the household and community for the whole year whereas cash transfers or food delivery will only be for one day.

Máximo Torero, FAO

If I can produce a harvest, I can feed the household and community for the whole year whereas cash transfers or food delivery will only be for one day.

Wilma van Esch, The Netherlands

The COVID crisis and the situation in Ukraine clearly shows why reaching the SDG on improvement of food security is even more important than ever. We need to work on SDG2 together for a viable and sustainable food system worldwide.

Wilma van Esch, The Netherlands

The COVID crisis and the situation in Ukraine clearly shows why reaching the SDG on improvement of food security is even more important than ever. We need to work on SDG2 together for a viable and sustainable food system worldwide.

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GDPRD White Paper “Financing Agrifood Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity”

Global Donor Platform Annual Report 2024

Sustainable Finance at UNDP

2025 Global Report on Food Crises

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