Global Donor Platform for Rural Development

Interview

Feeding the future: Policy pathways to resilient food systems Interview with Lee Ann Jackson, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She provides an overview of OECD's role in providing data and policy recommendations to governments for informed decisions.

Agro-food Jobs for Youth in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia Key messages from the webinar “Agro-food Jobs for Youth in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia”, organized by the Thematic Working Group on Rural Youth Employment on 28 March 2024. The session brought together the group's members, experts, development practitioners and youth.

Andrea Zinn, Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) and Aceli Americas Andrea Zinn on ways to amplify donor funding for agricultural development and why donor coordination with the private sector is so important to reach agrifood SMEs, the so-called missing middle.

Latest Features

SPOTLIGHT
Annual General Assembly 2023
The 2023 Annual General Assembly took place on 26-27 October 2023, and coincided with the Donor Platform’s 20th anniversary, a milestone reflected in the theme “20 Years of rural development and aid effectiveness: Where are we now and where are we going?”.
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Spotlight
Podcast | Sophia Murphy, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
In our latest segment, Sophia Murphy, Executive Director, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), reflects on twenty years of social protection and the challenges facing political institutions. This podcast explores how we can build a more secure future together.
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SPOTLIGHT
GDPRD 2023 Annual General Assembly Highlights
Key messaging and speaker quotes are captured in this short report of the Annual General Assembly (AGA) convened on 26 and 27 October 2023. The AGA was a chance to celebrate the Platform’s 20th anniversary and reflect on how the donor landscape in agriculture, rural development and food systems has evolved.
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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

A Conversation With | Martin Bwalya, Ag Director, AUDA/NEPAD

The active engagement of people should be at the forefront of implementation. It is at this level that a food systems approach is already taking shape, as implementers cannot avoid the connections, synergies, complementarities and trade-offs across different sectors.

A Conversation With | Martin Bwalya, Ag Director, AUDA/NEPAD

The active engagement of people should be at the forefront of implementation. It is at this level that a food systems approach is already taking shape, as implementers cannot avoid the connections, synergies, complementarities and trade-offs across different sectors.

A Conversation With | Conrad Rein, GDPRD Co-Chair

The agrifood sector represents the world’s largest economic sector and is very much linked to poverty. An increased population and the associated doubling of food production that is forecast for 2050 make it absolutely necessary to act now in a responsible and coordinated manner.

A Conversation With | Conrad Rein, GDPRD Co-Chair

The agrifood sector represents the world’s largest economic sector and is very much linked to poverty. An increased population and the associated doubling of food production that is forecast for 2050 make it absolutely necessary to act now in a responsible and coordinated manner.

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